It doesn't. Evolve is targeted towards apps not on Google Play and Beta tests. It's useful for enterprise apps (fix security holes without bugging all your employees) and beta tests (push updates to beta testers instead of waiting for them to download it).

Good stuff! I absolutely see it's usefulness for the enterprise crowd.

I wonder if the non-compliance with the Play store policy should be stated a little more boldly and clearly in your readme, so as not to put unsuspecting devs in jeopardy of having their apps unpublished.

Thanks! I'll make it clear in the readme

Sorry about that. We had some miscommunication internally. We used publicly available usernames.

Uh huh.

We tell users in our snap that their response will be posted online.

Ok I suppose that's better than nothing, but you're still violating the most fundamental aspect of snapchat, and I guarantee you that a good chunk of your pictures came from people who didn't realize that you were actually saving their pictures.

Check out our about page. We will remove images ASAP if the user requests it.

You have to know about it to request removal. That doesn't fix the issue of user's not understanding that you're changing the expected behavior. I'd assume you meant it would be posted online and then removed shortly after.

You know exactly what you're being called out on.

"We tell users in our snap that their response will be posted online."

Not to be rude... but are you sure people fully understand this? Snapchats are supposed to be seen at most 10 seconds. Snapchat frequently has little bugs where the snap doesn't show up for it's full amount of time.

I hate to say this because I genuinely like the idea... but this website seems shady to me. They are bragging about reverse engineering an API, and IMO, at best, spamming users with a 10 sec disclaimer saying their photo will be posted online.

Overall: Nice site. Congrats on the technical side. But I really don't think I can condone this.

This was key in my short response:

I'd assume you meant it would be posted online and then removed shortly after.

We communicate with Snapchat's servers and pretend to be their mobile app. This gives us access to everything that you can do through the mobile app. For example, we can send messages, view (and save) messages, create new accounts...

Why do you think this is OK? Data mining and extraction are clearly a violation of their terms.

If you really want to piss Snapchat off, turn this into a client that anyone can run.

So you're just counting down the minutes until you get shut off, basically?

Is there an official API or was it just reverse engineered?

There's no official API :)