I need too build one for school, I figure this would be a way to brainstorm
This has abd i believe but I think it doesn’t get much dumber: an app that turns your phone into a pocket/hand warmer by maxing out the CPU with some stupid intense tasks. Maybe add a bonfire screensaver for best effects.
It’s stupid af… Unless you have responsibly charged your phone through your multi-day backwoods hike and it saves your ass.
Wouldn’t suggest it as a frontline defense, of course, but… I can see a use case that saves a life, or at least a limb.
Mosquito detector with foot print for unlock.
“I have a really great idea for a social networking app…”
oh god no
A Braille-to-speech app. Point the camera at the Braille part of a sign, and be told what it says.
Intended user base: Users who can’t read due to sight impairment, can’t read Braille directly either for whatever reason, and couldn’t find a general-purpose OCR app capable of reading the ordinary text.
Or they could do the easier thing and make it read the sign above the braille
Fart Cow. 🐄💨
It displays a cartoon loop of a cow munching on some grass. 🐮
If you poke the cow, it farts. 💨
If you poke the cow a second time, it pops up a micropayment screen where you can pay 10¢ to have it fart again right away; or you can put it into the background and it will fart at some random time in the next 10 minutes for free. (This is a “delayed fart”.) 💰
Every additional fart costs 10% more, and plays at a louder volume. 🔊
At ten farts, you get a “butt trumpet” which is a longer and more melodious fart. 🎺
Even without paying, you can queue up lots of delayed farts. ⏲
If you open the app and poke the cow a dozen times without paying, it will fart once, then queue up delayed farts over the next two hours. These farts will be played over whatever else you’re doing with your phone; one of them will be a “butt trumpet” at maximum volume. 🐄💨💨💨
The only way to cancel a delayed fart is to pay for it to be played immediately. 💸
@fubo @WalkableProgrammer brilliant
Free after xkcd: an app that’s you can ask if today is Christmas. It answers always „no“ and can be advertised with „99,73% accuracy“
You could probably figure out some unique version of the dice rollers or player pickers.
Dice roller just rolls a set (specify number) on a click. I’ve used for board games. You could probably do something similar but different. Like a random color picker, random 1-10 picker, or random name picker (from a user list).
Player pickers work like 5 people put their finger on the phone and will randomly pick one person to be first player. Again, useful for board games. I could see it assigning a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd player. You could even spin it like for a 3v3 basketball game. It will put 6 people in 2 groups or something like that.
A tinder style interface to adopt animals from local shelters. Scrape data from local shelters, aspcas, etc, when you swipe right on an animal your info is sent to the shelter and they receive your application. Lower the barrier of entry and potentially increase adoption rates.
And now that I think about it maybe you’d potentially increase impulse adoptions that get returned/abandoned so maybe don’t make this
An app that pings people in the area if you need somebody to watch your dog while you go into a store, so you don’t have to tie them up outside or bring them in. And you pay your matched dog watcher by the minute.
This could apply to looking after your bicycle if there is no where to lock it up, e.g. front of small store.
MINder. By the minute minding of what you want to keep safe.
I’d imagine criminals would download the app to streamline stealing bikes.
That’s a good point, didn’t think of that.
How about an app that makes calls, but you have to dial like you would with an old rotary phone.
If you make a mistake with the rotations it just connects you to a random one of your contacts.
Haven’t seen it in a minute, but it definitely used to exist.
I would 100% both use and pay for it - forces me to put a bit more thought into phone trees, making me less likely to get lost in them.
I’d make something dumb with real world applications. A chat-gpt chat bot with attitude or only wrong answers. An app that only allows the user to make a paypal donation to you. Etc etc
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Oh no. Not gonna trick me again.
The last time I gave away my dumbest app idea, someone stole it and made Twitter.
An app that immediately, purposefully, crashes your phone.
I would see value on this for making excuses to my boss. Extra points if you mimic some meeting services crash screens.
A calendar app where you input any date and it will return a yes/no response if that is is today’s date or not. Similar to the websites that tell you if today is Christmas or not.