Your logic is that a government would want a backdoor in this app because another app was successful? Just because the same founder? That's a lot of hopeful backdoors - poor return on investment for the government. I've worked on bigger projects than that without backdoors. "Pretty huge" is relative I guess - I certainly wouldn't describe it as that. I seriously doubt that app had a government backdoor, and neither will this one. Was that an attempted appeal to authority?
Ah, all I meant was just that since Esendex got pretty huge (e:g IIRC they did bulk texting for the Obama campaign), given that its the same founder, perhaps Cronofy could end up big too. I guess my angle was simply, this is potentially a large company, his previous one was (and apparently a decent place to work according to people I know) and its a great shame if such a good tech business is driven to moving to a different country . BTW it wasn't me that downvoted you, it was a fair argument :)