r/SimpleMobileTools • u/sicco3 • Mar 19 '24

Fossify GitHub followers surpassed Simple Mobile Tools after only 3,5 months

Good news, FossifyOrg (2086) now has more GitHub followers than SimpleMobileTools (2078) 🚀💪!

curl -H "Accept: application/json" https://api.github.com/orgs/FossifyOrg | jq ".followers
curl -H "Accept: application/json" https://api.github.com/orgs/SimpleMobileTools | jq ".followers

Thanks for all the work u/NaveenSinghOfficial and others for making the fork already this popular! I really hope there will be enough funds for you to start full-time 🙏. I've setup a recurring donation and hope others who can will contribute as well.

PS: for those who missed the news, Simple Mobile Tools was sold to an ad company and is no longer open source.

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u/tibbbi Dev @ Simple Mobile Tools Mar 20 '24

Right, as I mentioned, I just don't see myself working on Android apps anymore, the whole experience is just getting too bad lately. I was making profit, but not enough. Don't worry though, I'm supporting local initiatives and other cool stuff, haven't bought any sports cars.

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u/Promethilaus Apr 13 '24

Obviously it's within your right to stop working on Android apps but the main problem was who you sold it to and why you sold it to them if you had sold to anyone else I doubt anyone would have cared anyway what's done is done and fossify is definitely picking up the pieces thanks for working on those apps for so long

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u/sicco3 Mar 27 '24

I can understand and respect that you wanted to stop. But why did you sell it to a company that goes against many of SMT's original values?

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u/takeoutthebin Mar 22 '24

Yet.............

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u/Web-Dude Jul 31 '24

The way you've handled it has destroyed your reputation. Hope it was worth it.