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Ditto

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Fantastic. Hopefully this becomes the default and helps to keep your server costs manageable.

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This is cool.

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Agreed. I’m amazed by the number of developers and apps - it’s incredible! If things had been quieter, I could’ve seen Christian being more tempted to try recreating the magic here.

In a way I feel bad, I wonder if he feels people have ripped off his hard work? There are direct clones of his app.

On the other hand, I guess it prompts exploring something entirely new, which is (selfishly) an exciting prospect for me and hopefully ends up being more rewarding for him.

Having said that, when Tapbots waded into Mastadon with Ivory, it was so much better than everything else (as a fan of Tweetbot), so could see something similar here. There’s clearly a reason for these developers to have found success in the first place!

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Ooooo, I like that!

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Thanks!

I just re-looked at aeharding’s brief, and noticed the link to some illustrations by David Revoy… and there’s one with animals on a rocket!

https://framablog.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-05-23_lets-leave-planet-GAFAM-NATU-BATX_by-David-Revoy.jpg

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It’s worth mentioning that the name Voyager was chosen because it was a NASA program closely related with Apollo (hence the astronaut character).

All of these apps build on Apollo’s legacy.

I would like to see something original too, if lemmings and rockets are extremely overdone, do you have any ideas for something unique?

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Weirdly, I hadn’t noticed a lot of rockets testing on iOS… most of those seem to have the lemming, but apparently there are a few on Android with a rocket.

I agree with you and I’m not precious at all, I was hoping to inspire more creativity and uniqueness. I’d love to see/hear your ideas!

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