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> Even those are really having to fight bots though.

We recently released a closed-system, iOS-only app, that has a fairly rudimentary, privacy-first system of user registration. It is currently restricted to the US and Canada.

Each signup request is manually vetted. There is no automatic registration. The app is designed for a specific demographic, and we do our best to ensure that new accounts are real people, that fit the demographic.

This is an iOS-only app (free), restricted to the North American continent, and with no accessible server API. The server is a bespoke server, and has no connections or dependencies that we don't control.

We are flooded with bots, and, most likely, scammers. So far, they have been pretty easy to spot, but that could change.



What app and serving whom?


I won’t mention it here.

Like I said, each signup is individually vetted, and the last thing we need, is hundreds of curious geeks, signing up one-shot accounts.

It’s for addicts, seeking Recovery.

We’re not interested in scale; only quality. People’s lives can depend on it.

The bots have declined, recently. I suspect that there’s a watcher bot, that triggers on new apps. When it first came out, we had a lot.




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