I need too build one for school, I figure this would be a way to brainstorm
Pizza Peacemaker. If you’re with a bunch of people with varying tastes and want to order pizza, you open the app and pass your phone around. Each person in turn puts in what they like and how much they want to eat. At the end the app tells you what you should order and how you should split the bill.
I like that, I thought of an idea similar where it gives you a bunch of movies and in tinder styles select a few. It will show the movies and your friends “liked”
I made a web app like this long ago! https://how2pizza.com, you could send a link out in advance of an event and then people could suggest types of pizza and vote for all the ones they liked. After all the votes, the organizer would decide how many people per pizza, and the app would tell you what to order.
The algorithm was designed to balance popular options with the needs of those with dietary restrictions. It recognizes that some folks only have a few menu options they can actually eat, and it guarantees they won’t get stuck with cheese. The way it worked is the “pickiest” people (i.e. those who only voted for one or two types of non-cheese pizza) would be guaranteed a pizza they can eat first. If the individual voted for more than one type, then the more popular option is favored. Cheese was a special case and there was logic to make sure it was only chosen after everyone got a slice of something they specifically wanted.
We used it a bunch in university for club events and stuff, and it worked great. Hopefully this is helpful and a good inspiration. Be warned about the code quality—the all hasn’t been updated in 8 years old!
If you’re curious, the main algorithm can be found here: https://github.com/ianonavy/how2pizza/blob/master/how2pizza/pizza/static/main.js
This would be kinda fun to play with from a “game theory” standpoint too. Unscrupulous people could attempt to maximize their pizza consumption and minimize their capital investment by claiming to not be very hungry and being willing to eat the most common toppings.
Perhaps the app could have a function at the end to “rate” the participant diners? You could pass your phone around one more time and people could assign a “trustworthiness score” to one another.
Anybody remember “I’m Rich”?
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“
What about an app which lists all visible WiFi networks and as you walk around, it tries to triangulate the source? It will fail in some cases due to reflections and obstacles, but when in line of sight or with few obstacles, could be a fun and interactive app.
You would need to familiarize yourself with the networking api on your phone, retrieve signal SSIDs to distinguish them, then retrieve signal strength, then estimate your own position (either precise location estimated by your phone or estimate it yourself using accelerometer and gyroscope and integrate over the retrieved data points to know how far you moved in each direction). Not sure what familiarity level you are at with any of this but the maths involved are all things I learned in school.
You could easily show how well it works by having another phone act as a temporary hotspot and see whether you can show an arrow towards it and possibly estimate distance.
Edit: estimating distance will be tricky, because you would need to know/estimate the signal emission power and that is probably different for all kinds of routers, some are even dynamic. But identifying the direction of the source is very much doable.
If that’s your dumbest idea, you are undervalued wherever you work. That sounds like a pretty interesting idea.
I thought it would be more engaging to propose a simple yet interactive app =] glad you like it. Joy in programming drives learning and motivation.
Interesting idea, and honestly sounds fun. I was planning on using react native, so I’ll check expos network api
Dumbest?
Probably one of those old school flashlight apps… that just turn your screen white
I remember having one of those on my ipod, thinking that this is the peak
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
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
Mosquito detector with foot print for unlock.
“I have a really great idea for a social networking app…”
oh god no
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.
Oh no. Not gonna trick me again.
The last time I gave away my dumbest app idea, someone stole it and made Twitter.
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.
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.
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.
I’d imagine criminals would download the app to streamline stealing bikes.
That’s a good point, didn’t think of that.
MINder. By the minute minding of what you want to keep safe.
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.
