I Wish There Was An App For

Submit app ideas. We choose one idea per month and build it.

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Submit app ideas. We choose one idea per month and build it.

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We're an online community run by an app studio where anyone can submit app ideas. We (the app studio) will choose one winning idea per month (crowdsourced by the community) and build it.

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This is great and I really love the clean feel of the website. Since the ultimate goal is to get the app built out, it would be useful for the user to include necessary details about the app. I.e. user flow, target market, how it works, what it does, etc. If you do really end up building an app each month, would you contact the person in order to understand their vision? My biggest concern is the follow-up. 😃 Lots of potential to evolve in something amazing.

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8yr ago

Hustle Crew Academy

@rohit_tigga Yes it would be great to talk a bit more about how the process itself works, who owns the IP, what happens to the app once you make it...how will you decide what app wins and where do the abandoned ideas go?

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8yr ago

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Maker

Thanks @rohit_tigga @abadesi so much for this feedback! Great points about the user providing more specifications about their idea and following up. The winning app idea is selected each month based on the number of upvotes (most popular idea within a one month duration). We would definitely want to notify the community after we make the app. In regards to IP, submitted ideas (whether successful or abandoned) are part of the public domain. Since this is a learning process, I'm more than happy to chat a bit more offline about how the process works (always open to feedback and suggestions). Thanks and much appreciated for checking out this project!

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8yr ago

@donf126 👍 👍 👍

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8yr ago

@donf126 Would love to help you guys out on the design side of things.

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8yr ago

@rohit_tigga @abadesi @colinwinhall Following, have ideas.

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8yr ago

Suave

This sounds like it could be exploited if I offered up a world changing idea and you take all the credit for it. What safe guards are in place?

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8yr ago

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Maker

@jonasalmut thanks for this feedback and you make a good point. The incentive structure will need work (also giving folks credit - not just the leader-board we have today) and right now the ideas are part of the public domain. Thank you for taking the time to look into this project.

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8yr ago

@jonasalmut Don't post a "world changing idea" on a public forum on the hope that someone else will build it. Build it yourself.

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8yr ago

@jonasalmut @donf126 How about a Leader board for App Idea Winners.

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8yr ago

@timshnaider True ☝️

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8yr ago

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Maker

@alessandro_machi great idea about having a leaderboard for app idea winners. Thanks again!

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8yr ago

I think a lot of the comments on this product are worried about "who gets credit" I don't think that is the point of this product at all. It seems that if you are submitting ideas, you would appreciate to have those ideas/apps created to make your life easier. If you have a great idea and want credit for it, then go make it yourself.

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8yr ago

@dielawn714 That's not fair. Guy who submitted the idea has to get credit and some reasonable share of IP ownership.

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8yr ago

@dielawn714 Without any type of credit, the contribution's value is exploited by society at the expense of the contributor.

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8yr ago

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Maker

@dielawn714 thank you and you're right on the money about the intent of this project (it's also about spreading good will and promoting cool ideas)! I spent the past day in a half explaining this to people but to be fair they also have valid questions/concerns. Thanks again! @syamala_prasad_oruganti @alessandro_machi

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8yr ago

@dielawn714 @alessandro_machi Society benefits and the creator benefits. What cost do you see to the creator?

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8yr ago

I imagine this going to the next level: automatically filtering and raking ideas and then maybe crowdfunding them. Otherwise it's just a braindumped list of quick ideas.

Pros:

- interesting core idea

Cons:

- why do I have to sign up / log in?

- this is feature creep taken to the next level

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8yr ago

This is great , but my fear is the same thing others have noted. This could be exploited if proper legal procedure is not followed in contract with the idea owner. Also, someone else can easily steal this idea and build on it if publicly shared here

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8yr ago

@femoric9 I would suggest that there two types of submissions. Public Domain and Business. The Business Apps income, if any was generated, could be split in some manner between the developers, the idea person, and possibly a third category to reward those who come up with public domain ideas.

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8yr ago

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Maker

@femoric9 thanks for taking the time to check out this project. Your feedback/concerns are noted for sure and I also answered above in my comments. Thanks again and much appreciated for your feedback.

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8yr ago

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Maker

@alessandro_machi amazing idea about the different domains of user submitted ideas! This could be a useful way/approach for segmenting the community y submitted content (also thinking about categories). @femoric9

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8yr ago

Great idea, but you open yourself up to some legal risk, by saying explicitly that you're building someone's idea, they may expect some financial compensation, especially since there is no inherent consideration in a terms of service.

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8yr ago

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Maker

@anossovs1 thank you for this feedback and much appreciated for taking time to check out this project. You're right that we need to further investigate legal risk especially with terms of service.

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8yr ago

@donf126 great idea! A suggestion is you make the code open source and put it on GitHub.

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8yr ago

@munipandita That would be the only reasonable solution for this site. I agree with you. 👍

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8yr ago

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Maker

@munipandita @ihatedotpink awesome idea about making this open source and will keep this in mind!!

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8yr ago

Love the idea behind this program. To those concerned that they will have an amazing idea stolen, I guess it all depends on your input into the project. Anyone can toss out a vague idea, for example: Calendars on cell phones. Total game-changing concept. Now days you go to the app or play store and see dozens upon dozens of calendar apps. It's the implementation of the idea that makes it differnt or game-changing. For example, I'm a writer. If you sit ten writers in a room and tell them to write your super, awesome, great idea for a story (Some guy gets information that will save the world, but he has to keep it from getting into the wrong hands before he reaches his destination) you will end up with ten different stories. They might be supernatural, they may take place in outerspace, they may be placed thousands of years into the future... all the stories will differ. Just look at all the movies and television shows based on that same idea. All the stories contain the same general idea. The writers made it their own, They may says "thanks" in the acknowledgements of the book and send you a contributor copy, but you didn't come up with all the characters and plots and subplots and settings. You didn't come up with the voice and style and descriptions and you didn't put in the many hours upon hours of work it takes to write a story...or create an app. So acknowledgement in the credits is just fine. Now, if you submit an idea and spend hours upon hours giving input into the colors, font, and design layout and all the minor and major components of the app, then maybe you'd want to ask for compensation. And if you still are concerned about submitting an idea because you think it's going to be the next big thing there are two things you can do: 1. Submit the idea and, if it becomes huge, make sure the world sees your acknowledgement credit and earn money from TV appearances and articles on how you came up with the idea. Seriously, the media is always looking for new stories and angles. 2. Don't submit the idea, take time to learn how to create apps, create the whole app yourself, put in the hours upon hours of developement, do all the footwork to get the app into Apple's app store, and rake in all the credit and money for yourself. *Side note: as a writer I've had plenty of ideas that I didn't utilize. Many, many, many years ago, I wrote a draft of how people were similar to their cars. I left that draft collecting dust. About 8-months after writing my draft, I saw a similar story in the Wall Street Journal. Another writer somewhere in the world had the exact same idea, acted on it, and got it published. There were some similarites, but there were many more differences in the piece. That's life. I can still finish the piece and pitch other markets if I'd like, it has enough differences to highlight my own idea.

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8yr ago

Entre

@dianedemasi <3 would love to connect! Fellow writer here <3

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8yr ago

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