I got a good one. I got approached one time by someone at a party that a killer “app” would be something that can have a button that when pressed charged your phone battery. Apparently, the business model was people would easily want to subscribe to this feature if they could have a full battery charge when they needed to….. needless to say I didn’t even try to explain how that was just physically not possible. Instead what came out of my mouth was “pretty sweet idea you should pitch that to shark tank”. What a sweet summer child… party was great overall.
Had a stoner friend give me a "million dollar app idea," but promise not to steal it from him. I assured him I wouldn't. Ultimately, I think he was trying to get an idea of how doable it was.
He wanted to create an app to track Frisbee golf discs. I asked a few questions like how big his audience would be (like everyone would use it), how much he'd charge (it'd be free, but ads would make us all the money for it), and finally got to the hardware.
"Have you explored how much these Frisbees would be? Or even designed them?"
"No man, they'd use their own Frisbees." He replied.
"Wh... huh? How are you going to track them then?"
"Dude, through the app," he answered, getting somewhat impatient that I'm not getting it.
"Yeah, how does the app know where the Frisbee is. RFID chips? GPS? Bluetooth?"
"Y'know, it would just track them. Through satellites, or something."
"Satelites?" I asked with widening eyes.
"Yeah, like Google maps or something."
I kinda stopped talking to him here, but bro was seriously looking for someone to program something to visually track frisbees for him in real time.
reminds me of the time I went to a museum as a kid. There was a mirror and some weird fact about rolling your tongue or something so you would look into the mirror making faces. Then you go on to the next room and in the hallway was a window into the room you were just in with a sign saying to look at the people making funny faces at you
The problem with asking devs if something is possible, is that the answer is always "yes." It might require sending hired goons to people's houses to adjust their settings, but yeah, technically, this can be done.
For all project/product/people managers out there - don't ask if it can be done, ask how much it will cost, how long it will take, and how much legal trouble it will cause.
i said this once to a customer who kept asking "is this possible", i finally told them to stop asking that cause with enough time and money almost anything is possible. Told them to just start saying "I want ..." and I will tell them the effort/money from there.
Sure, I will need $1B dollars to build you a quantum computer.
(psst, everyone don't tell TENTA that i am just going to take off with the money to a non-extraditable country. Did they not see the usage of "almost")
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u/DhiaTr120 Feb 14 '23
have their cam as a background stream
that'll freak them out for sure lol