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Growth · March 31, 2021

Friends

An app for sharing photos with close friends 👋

Friends launched on March 31, 2021 with 60 votes, #1,201 of 3,696 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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What it does

"Old Instagram (OG) was perfect. The gold standard of simple, fast & beautiful. Nothing since has come close. That Instagram is clearly gone. And it’s not coming back. I started coding, reluctantly, to bring it back myself." - Greg Hochmuth, early IG employee

Photo sharing with close friends

There was a time when sharing photos with friends was calm and simpler. I miss that time , so I created this: an app for sharing with a few closefrom heyfriends.app

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