I need too build one for school, I figure this would be a way to brainstorm

  • @hollunder@discuss.tchncs.de
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    52 years ago

    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.

    • 857
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      32 years ago

      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.

  • @wumpus@latte.isnot.coffee
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    62 years ago

    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.

  • @fubo@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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. 💸

  • @Tandybaum@lemmy.world
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    22 years ago

    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.

  • @quixotic120@lemmy.world
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    72 years ago

    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

  • Jaywarbs
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    22 years ago

    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.

  • @iceonfire1@lemmy.world
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    52 years ago

    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.

    • 857
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      22 years ago

      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.

  • @barrage4u@lemmy.world
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    32 years ago

    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

  • Chris
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    22 years ago

    Forgot your tennis racket at home? Download the e-racket for the most portable racket on the market. Upgrade to pro today and you can use it as a baseball bat instead!

    • croobat
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      12 years ago

      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.