Santhosh’s Blog

Me and Charan started developing Gigasmilies back in Dec 2007 and stopped developing in Feb 2008. But in that short span of time, we released 4 versions and 2 web versions. Charan also decided to buy a dedicated a website for this project and he did. And we moved on from GooglePages to our own site.

Our app became so popular, that it was even featured in India’s No.1 Technology Magazine “Digit” in Jan 2008 Issue.

But later somehow we lost interest in developing Gigasmilies maybe because we found ourselves busy in our real life activities and or lazy developing it. Whatever maybe the reason but we stopped developing it.

Since we now have no further interest in developing GigaSmilies anymore, we decided the gigasmilies.com domain and hosting to expire and it did yesterday (8th Jan 2009). So now gigasmilies.com is dead.

There is also another reason for this idea. Back in Oct 2008, Gigasmilies.com was hacked by some Australian hackers. We still don’t know what was the glitch that led for this hack. But we believe it’s because we didn’t use to manage it properly due to lack of interest. Even after we recovered from the hack, there were many attempts made by those hackers to take over the site once again. So we concluded that gigasmilies.com is a soft target to hackers and there is no point in just protecting it whilst we have stopped developing it.

However Gigasmilies will be still available for download from gigasmilies.googlepages.com.

We hope you still enjoy this piece of app.