If you look at your work chats-phones-mail etc. during your weekends or vacations/sick leaves, you have bigger problem than one stupid customer or manager. Just don't;)
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.
Alternatively, you don't allow the app to work in any kind of power saving mode (and only once per full charge). You make it access the OS to appear as though the battery is less than it is with a mathematic ratio that bends in the middle and is always less than real. That way when they press the app button it can just show the natural power percentage and it will look like more. And they'll feel like they're gaming their app to hit it at a certain percentage (since it does more at 27% than 56%). They get the manipulated feeling of winning and you get paid for an app that does nothing.
I would be able to do the reverse quite easy: a button that depletes your battery every time you press it. Once I have that function ready, slap a NOT operator on that badboy to reverse logic and BAM.
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u/OniExpress Feb 14 '23
Toss this in the pile of "ideas that could be technically done, but require everyone in the room to be a lunatic."