Yo, Hodor: An App for Saying 'Hodor!' to Your Friends

Many popular apps inspire a variety of spinoffs and copycats — most of which tend to be lame at best or blatant knockoffs at worstYo, the app that allows you to send "Yo" push notifications to friends, is no exception, with a series of wannabe copies already filling the App Store and Google Play

But one spinoff is doing it right— possibly even better than the original. Yo, Hodor is like Yo, only more awesome because Game of Thrones.

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Hodor is, of course, a reference to the Game of Thrones character, who only says his own name.

The iOS app functions much like Yo. Create an account and add your friends' usernames — unlike Yo, there is no way to find your friends who also have also downloaded the app. So you must already know their usernames. Tapping someone's username sends them a "Hodor," which developer Tyler Hederick says was lifted from a clip of the show. Read more...

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