Hemlis team announced the closure of the project

2 years ago, a rainbow post appeared on Habré about how soon the first fully protected instant messenger from the creators of the pirate bay will be launched. Time passed, Telegram came out, Whatsapp acquired encryption, and Hemlis did not appear in online stores for mobile platforms. At the beginning, the developers regularly fed breakfast on Twitter , periodically posted reports on their blog , and spent donations worth $ 100,000 collected in the first 36 hours.

Today the founder of the messenger Peter Sunde announced the termination of the development:

It is often not as it looked.

Lately we have been awfully quiet. The reasons are many, sad and non important right now. It is a fact that we’ve seen it. New messengers fails miserably. Hemlis has been released and updated. It can be a small scratch. They have just grown bigger.
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It’s privately supported. It’s a huge scale. Accept our current roadmap and goals as defunct. We understand that it doesn’t serve a purpose. It’s not a problem. A road we are not willing to go.

Hellis roadmap and product dead. Hemlis can not live in the form we planned. We are always so happy for our fans, fans, beta testers and funders. It seems we can not offer it.

In short, the guys are very sorry that they did not meet our expectations, and they are very afraid that they will not be able to compete with the giants of the market. So sad.