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Virej Dasani
Virej Dasani

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Tell me a stupid app idea and I'll make it

I'd love to hear some funny app ideas!
I've had some extra free time lately and want to build something weird and funny

Comment your ideas below or on this Youtube community post
Thanks!

Edit 3: I made your genius app ideas πŸ‘‡

Edit 2: I made another one of your ideas πŸ‘‡

Edit 1: I made your app ideas πŸ‘‡

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Sorin Costea

An app to generate stupid app ideas.

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Mahmoud Harmouch • Edited

I think I am taking this comment too seriously. To my humble understanding, you just gave a recursive answer. Meanwhile, the author is trying to solve iteration n, and you just wrote the iteration n+1. Additionally, solving that iteration would introduce another level of complexity to the equation since the formula for generating stupid ideas is unknown, probably meant by "stupid," "random" ideas. And that would be easier. Do you know what I mean?

Edit: Nevermind. Just lost my mind for a split second.

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Arun Kumar

i wonder how the big(o) would be for that

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Mahmoud Harmouch

Great question. Ok. Let's say that, hypothetically, and for the sake of the argument that the previous comment gives an additional iteration to reach the base case, which leads to the function being called recursively n+1 times before reaching its base case, which is, again hypothetically, a big fat O(n + 1), that is presumably often called a linear runtime function. And that, in its turn, will lead us to the following formula:

Complexity = length of the tree from root to virgin node * number of virgin nodes
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Let's assume now that, theoretically, this equation can dramatically help us understand how to calculate any time complexity, which begs the question: what would that even mean? Now let's state that this equation is valid for the sake of the argument, and let's run quantum experimentation on that basis. Based on SchrΓΆdinger's dog, which is a thought experiment that illustrates a paradox of quantum entanglement. And suppose you are not aware of that thought experiment. In that case, a hypothetical dog may be considered simultaneously both exist and not exist due to its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. And after a relatively short amount of time, you would manage to figure out the time complexity of that equation. After running that experiment, I think you would agree with me.

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Ha ha. But no need. He just needed to post the question.

Just goes to show an app is not always the solution...

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Icetagchuan

Sounds interesting... maybe this app can be a place that place all stupid ideas.

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Keff

An app where you have to guess a date, since 1/1/1970... any date. Then give tips, like "Na, 2 generations of camels have died between your choice and the correct guess"...

Quite stupid though!!! I guess it would be a really hard little game...

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Kirill Shestakov

A spin on your idea: wikipedia-based guessing game. You still have to guess the date of an event, and the tips tell you other facts like "[another event] happened between your guess and the date" and if you run out of events, you can default to more general tips like you mentioned. Not bad, and educational!

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Keff

Not a bad idea at all!!

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Keff

It's making me want to build it now, could be quite fun

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Gaurav Saini

Uhh… quick FYI, the management needs you to create machine learning for the suggestions

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Negreanu Calin

This is a nice one :D

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German Fernandez

Well maybe some variant of mastermind game?

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Keff

Funny video!!

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Virej Dasani

Thanks a lot!

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Jon Randy πŸŽ–οΈ • Edited

An app where you can connect to a blockchain and buy a thing that merely points to some totally inane artwork, giving you some tenuous claim of 'ownership' of it, even though said artwork is freely copyable by anyone. Also make it so that buying said item confers no copyright ownership of the original artwork whatsoever.

πŸ˜‰

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Jon Randy πŸŽ–οΈ

Oh, wait...

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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James Thomson

What about some sort of a "decentralised" ledger that we can throw all sorts of marketing terms at and claim it solves all sorts of real world problems when in fact it really just complicates them and makes everything so much more fragile and susceptible to bad actors.

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Elliot Derhay

Be honest: you're a member of BAYC, aren't you? 😏

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Keff

I see what you did there, now that is a stupid idea if I've ever seen one!!!

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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jonosellier

An app that automatically comments your code that only says exactly what's going on. Now you have all the job security of code only you understand while being able to preach about how code should never be considered self-documenting.

Eg: const a = "27" //declare a constant called a with the string value of 27

I take royalties in the form of obscure pre-rugpull NFTs.

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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JosΓ© Aponte

Well, if you want a very stupid idea:

An app with a timer that goes up until you close the app. It will keep a score of your higher time watching that timer.

I know, it's stupid πŸ˜… Now, if you want a funny idea:

An app that gives you a bad joke depending on the current day.

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Fen

A mobile app that sends some random compliment as notification. You can't control the notification time intervals and they change randomly.
It should have a bald mode, so you don't compliment someones nonexistent hair by accident.

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Vladimir Ivakhnenko

An app for generate video from your project git history
for watching how codebase did changed in time,
how many files, lines of code were added and removed
who joined the project and left
and all this in one video

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Thibaut Andrieu

I Start typing "Do you wanna develop an app ?", then remember this Rick&Morty episode was release 10 years ago and Though "My god, I'm fucking old...".

Anyway, could-you develop an app telling if a joke is suitable for a given audience ?

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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Marcelo Rafael • Edited

An app where many people can submit their bills. The app will shake the bills and randomly pick up another bill and you will need to pay it. It's about lucky. You can take the bill from another person that is cheaper than your bill or you can take another bill that is expansive.

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Virej Dasani

I made a few of the app ideas πŸ‘‡
youtube.com/watch?v=ndmzLQPbg7s

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ayan-404

An app that asks you questions that don't make sense and insult you if you cant answer it correct.

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