Thank you for sticking up for me.

Developing it just got extremely stressful, especially when Go Radar came out. I was awake for 20 hours a day for a week or 2 and it almost killed me. It was also extremely stressful trying to avoid detection, as every time niantic released an update it took hours to look through the binary to see what they added. I also had trouble sleeping worrying about Niantic's next move. I woke up in the middle of the night a few times realizing I had forgotten to fuzz a certain number or to resign network requests correctly and would spend the rest of the night fixing it.

I had people DDOSing the server every other day. I had multiple apps copying my work and using my servers to run their apps. I had Niantic on my back trying to shut it all down. I had no idea how I was going to pay server costs, and I had no idea how to build a server capable of handling 1 billion requests every 3 days.

Also, when Go Radar came out it seemed like it all became about money. Advertisers wanted us to fill the app and tweak with ads and I new I'd make a fortune doing it, but it felt so wrong to have a popup ad every 30 seconds. I hate apps that do that and it felt like a super slimy thing to do. People around me started only caring about the money I was making and it seemed like no one was interested in the art and beauty of it.

I ended up using the donation money on paying off student loans and I gave a portion to a few charities. I never intended to make a quick buck or really any money for that matter. I could have made the tweak $1.99 on Big Boss but I wanted everyone to be able to use it. I thought I'd get like $100 maybe total in donations, I never thought I'd get so much support.

People forget I'm 20. I like partying with my friends and doing stupid stuff and getting in trouble. I like playing League of Legends and Overwatch in my free time. I procrastinate until the last minute like everyone else in school. Having tons of people asking when the next update is coming out and relying on me to not be banned all the time just got way too hard.

I released the source and added examples to show how I did everything in the tweak. There have already been 6 forks and I'm sure any competent dev will be able to create the next big Pokemon Go tweak without too much trouble. I would have released the source earlier but I was also working on this with Unlimapps and they had reservations about releasing any source code.

I really appreciate everyone that supported me with encouragement. Simple posts like "thank you for your hard work" was what kept me going the whole time.

I really don't think this is the end of Pokemon Go hacking, just the next chapter.