At an age when many of his contemporaries are logging on to Snapchat for the first time, 13-year-old Daniel Singer has created his own messaging app, which hit iTunes on Wednesday.
Backdoor is billed as a "secret messaging" app. The premise: You can send and receive messages, but you don't know who they are from. There are even "clues" to help you figure it out. The app has a U.S. patent and three additional pending patents relating to "anonymous communications between users."
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Singer, who lives in Los Angeles, describes Backdoor as a way to "anonymously message your friends and have conversations anonymously with some transparency." While there are obvious uses for such an app — flirting, practical jokes — Singer says that "the possibilities are endless." Read more...
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