DEV Community

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

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

Virej Dasani on May 10, 2022

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 o...
Collapse
 
sorincostea profile image
Sorin Costea

An app to generate stupid app ideas.

Collapse
 
wiseai profile image
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.

Collapse
 
ajinspiro profile image
Arun Kumar

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

Thread Thread
 
wiseai profile image
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
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

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 Schrödinger'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.

Thread Thread
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
stevenally profile image
......

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

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

Collapse
 
icetagchuan profile image
Icetagchuan

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

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
nombrekeff profile image
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...

Collapse
 
guitarino profile image
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!

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
nombrekeff profile image
Keff

Not a bad idea at all!!

Collapse
 
nombrekeff profile image
Keff

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

Collapse
 
sainig profile image
Gaurav Saini

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

Thread Thread
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
negreanucalin profile image
Negreanu Calin

This is a nice one :D

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
nombrekeff profile image
Keff

Funny video!!

Thread Thread
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

Thanks a lot!

Collapse
 
nandez profile image
German Fernandez

Well maybe some variant of mastermind game?

Collapse
 
jonrandy profile image
Jon Randy 🎖️ • 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.

😉

Collapse
 
jonrandy profile image
Jon Randy 🎖️

Oh, wait...

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
jamesthomson profile image
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.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
nombrekeff profile image
Keff

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

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
jsn1nj4 profile image
Elliot Derhay

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

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
jonosellier profile image
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.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
jeoxs profile image
José 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 😅 Now, if you want a funny idea:

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

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
fen1499 profile image
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.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
tandrieu profile image
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 ?

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
marcelorafaelfeil profile image
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.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
c_basso profile image
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

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
rangercoder99 profile image
RangerCoder99 • Edited

A clock that shows different marvel superhero characters on every 15 minutes... when you click on the clock it shows an multi step form to reserve an ticket for the next mcu movie premiere but the form step never end and it keep asking you ton of useless questions about you interests and history with marvel comics, cartoons, movies and TV shows from what is your favorite movie to what is your favorite character in that movie and who would you cast to play this role and so msny other pointless questions maybe add a poll as well for fun 😀

Collapse
 
shinigami92 profile image
Shinigami

A clock where you can see every time (theoretically only "UTC") … for each planet in solar system 👀

Bonus: you can set an alarm for a selected planet ⏰

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
ayan404 profile image
ayan-404

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

Collapse
 
ajinspiro profile image
Arun Kumar

portfolio of a hitman

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
bennycode profile image
Benny Code • Edited

I want a VS code extension that shows the Doom 'Ouch Face' depending on how many errors the compiler finds in my code. 😅 I attached a screenshot of how it could look like: dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/up...

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

Thanks, thats actually a great idea, definitely gonna make this!

Collapse
 
bennycode profile image
Benny Code • Edited

Nice! Please keep me posted about this because there is huge interest from the community: twitter.com/bennycode/status/14879...

Collapse
 
nasoma profile image
nasoma

An app that listen's to farts and donates $1 to the Cancer Research
Institute every time a fart is detected.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
chrdek profile image
chrdek • Edited

Create an app to do language-to-text processing of a sound sample you read, then take the text by a voice generating services, have a microphone hooked to it record what is being said and send the generated voice sample via a live caching service on a wifi IoT device which is connected to Bluetooth speaker which in turn relays the info to another bluetooth access point and back to a speaker to hear what you just said in a robotic voice.

stupid enough idea I guess

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
chrdek profile image
chrdek

Heh, no man I was just kidding you do not have to do this idea, if you do intend to, do keep it only for yourself as it might be annoying for unsuspecting people, or might get you into trouble.

Collapse
 
sanjaybabu profile image
C K Sanjay Babu

An app which provides the countdown to weekened and when weekend is reached, the page should not be accessible. Should throw an error while accessing it during weekends and again on Monday 00.01 it should start the countdown!

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
wesdevpro profile image
Wesley Ford

An app that does nothing

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
tyteen4a03 profile image
Timothy Choi

Google but the app condescendingly corrects your search terms to what it thinks is more fitting for peasants like us.

Collapse
 
pykoder profile image
christophe grosjean

I see no difference with the actual google

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
pontakornth profile image
Pontakorn Paesaeng

Twitter clone but less features. It must be built from 10 different programming language excluding HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Assembly.

Bonus point for using Blockchain for absolutely no reason.

Bonus point for randomising your languages.

Collapse
 
jaecktec profile image
Constantin

Like a web 3.0 Twitter clone?

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
ben profile image
Ben Halpern

How about an app that will rate the quality of your singing voice.

If you sing well, it will give you genuine praise — if you can't sing well, it will be brutal about it.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
stokry profile image
Stokry • Edited

You can find a lot of cool, funny ideas on: stupion.com/

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
stokry profile image
Stokry

Nice, nice :-)

Thread Thread
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

Thanks a lot!

Collapse
 
guitarino profile image
Kirill Shestakov

Article generator. Stitch pre-defined words together into gramatically valid but semantically random sentences. Bonus points if you add random code / quote block support, italics, bolded, headers, and customizing the length of the article.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
usvsthem profile image
Matt Pleasant • Edited

an app that doesnt allow irritating install app tags and modals like reddit, facebook, pinterest and other companies who drive customers away with their abrasiveness and lack of decency, if you need more features eliminate all sponsered google searches from google search, matter of fact just make a app that parses google from all webpages and if it cant it wont work, no amp pages, no foolishness, no google middleman point blank period the company as a whole needs to find a blackhole immediately and jump in it

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
d_seka_of_trut profile image
cornelius okafor

In my country Nigeria, people play lots of bet from different betting platform.
I am thinking of an app that can decrypt betting A generated code after booking and convert it to betting B code so the person can simply bet the same options directly.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
pykoder profile image
christophe grosjean • Edited

Let's take that literally. I have a very simple App idea that would be useful to me. I need an Hat Meeting helper. Here is the context en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking...

The idea is to have the phone show a plain color matching the current hat (nice drawings matching the color would also be cool, but color is enough) and a simple menu enabling to very easily change the current color.
Optionnally we can add a timer to play a sound and automatically change color after a maximum time.

I'm considering writing something like that for months to help in parallel thinking meetings, but never had time. As far as I know it's both very simple and it doesn't exists. So if you have time...

Of course it must work on a phone

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
siddsarkar profile image
Siddhartha Sarkar

Build this please!!

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
jankapunkt profile image
Jan Küster

App to annoy people with UX anti pattern and dark pattern.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
jaecktec profile image
Constantin

Javascript interpreter in wasm

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
now_is_the_time profile image
Now is the time

A tinder app for pets.
The app should have some flickering lights or animations of ants so the pet will swipe it.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
msoup profile image
Dave

Make an app that combs the internet and ranks the most toxic communities based on word choice of posters.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
ewanslater profile image
Ewan Slater

An app that tracks your location data and matches you to the tagged wild animal whose track shape most closely matches yours that day.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
themmako profile image
notsoavailablemako

make a app for demotivating someone

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
stevenally profile image
......

An app that takes a sentence, translates it into another language (chosen by the user), then translates it back again.

Uses google translate

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
jamesthomson profile image
James Thomson

An app that tries to guess what things smell like.... now that makes me wonder if there's actually a decent use case for it 🤔

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
stcollier profile image
Samuel Collier

A button that crashes/closes the app whenever you click it.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
garyk2015 profile image
garyk2015

Not my idea, a co-worker came up with 'eweber' so instead of a geo map showing you where the nearest taxi is, it will show you where the nearest sheep are!!!!

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
anthonymarkreynolds profile image
Anthony

Power draw app, runs contrived code that aims to consume max power on host device.

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

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

Collapse
 
virejdasani profile image
Virej Dasani

I made your app ideas!
dev.to/virejdasani/i-made-your-stu...

Collapse
 
kihntonyk profile image
Kihntonyk

An app that can dispatch a taxi from the dashboard of your car. Takes customers' calls, phone numbers, pick-up and drop-off locations(addresses), and assign the job to the closest cab.

Bonus: Able to re-assign a job to the next closest cab if the first one declines it. Able to tell or show the following: pick-up time, drop-off time, specific location at anytime during the trip, etc. Version 1.0. More information for version 1.1 if you need them.

I'm sick and tired of being bombarded by calls, stopping every minutes on my way, and dispatching jobs whiles driving. It's not fun at all.

By the way if this idea sounds stupid, it's because you wanted it to be. 😂

Collapse
 
baenencalin profile image
Calin Baenen

An app ðat can determine when to place þorn and eþ in a sentence instead of ðe "th" digraph.
(Ðð - eth = "th" in "the", Þþ - thorn = "th" in "think".)

Collapse
 
elgaxton profile image
elgaxton

Hello, I want to learn to develop mobile apps, please can you help me with the path to follow. Flutter or Kotlin, which should I learn and how do I go about it?
Thanks alot.

Collapse
 
anuragvohraec profile image
Anurag Vohra

Design flex system for SVG!

Collapse
 
chrismcleod profile image
Chris McLeod

NFT for ownership of pointless perpetual machine patents which have been awarded

Collapse
 
gixxerblade profile image
Steve Clark 🤷‍♀️

Rube Golderberg taco making machine

Collapse
 
arunnambissan profile image
Arun D

An app which writes rough unit test cases for our code which we can further modify :D

Collapse
 
light9 profile image
Matthew Terrence

A recipe app but every measurement switches between imperial and metric and each instruction step is written in a different language.

Collapse
 
pengeszikra profile image
Peter Vivo

Give right for repo and, application start code reviews any commit.

Collapse
 
andrewbaisden profile image
Andrew Baisden

How about an app that uses your voice to create a custom sound board? Alternatively instead of sounds it could be voice notes so you could make a crazy song 🤣

Collapse
 
eagle_cheow_d44def36c51ae profile image
Eagle Cheow

An app that would automatically open up relevant StackOverflow page when something went wrong.

Collapse
 
cednore profile image
cednore

An AI app writes a weird story "Virej in Wonderlands" v2.0

Collapse
 
yogski profile image
Yogi Saputro

A compiler that spits demotivational and unhelpful error message.
e.g for syntax error
"You're such incompetent that you mispelled something between line 50 and 75."

Collapse
 
kuklik profile image
Adam Kukliński

An app to check weather in previous days - believe me - it is hard to find info what was weather like yesterday

Collapse
 
phap96019 profile image
Tr.Phap

I need an app to decide what and where to eat today :(

Collapse
 
galinalk profile image
GalinaLK

An app that take photos of you and will start recording whenever it wants, and then show people the photos and videos without your permission. We will have so much fun.

Collapse
 
cordialgit profile image
Cordial

I want a website like Facebook.

Here is the link-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiFfDjmd0jU&list=PLgT8fPEzKsXg7SX0uSF0bhJNXYb7QeD1C

Can you build it for me?

Collapse
 
glenn_miller_860ba12ffbf7 profile image
Glenn A Miller • Edited

An Alexa app you can ask:

How many days since [date]?

It will tell you the number of days, the number of weeks, and the number of months that have elapsed.