Every few months I check the App Store seeking a seashell identification app.
But one never exists. Which makes me scratch my head a little. How come for?
People aren’t walking down a beach, finding a shell, and going online to identify it? Seems unlikely to me. Yet I have never seen or heard of one.
The second app I check for and never find is an app to help me identify Chinese vegetables. How awesome would that be? I’m unsure how to clean it, how to cook it, what it goes in or with, even which part I eat! Yet I’m an adventurous person and would love to try more of the things I see at the Chinese market!
And while I realize it may be too narrow a demographic, I also want an app for identifying feathers I randomly find. Why isn’t there one, I often wonder.
How about you?
Got any app ideas you’re surprised don’t already exist? If you share it here, maybe some out of work programmer will get an idea and might even run with it. Hey, I can dream can’t I?
I want an app that lets you punch people over the phone. Or slap them. Or choke them, that’s good too. Like you could sent them a slap instead of a text.
Not sure if this exists or if it’s just being really hard to find; a word processing app for android that can handle .rtf formats.
For the ideas in the OP, it seems to me that photo analysis and identification are still incredibly tough problems to solve, even if there have been some successful apps along those lines. Maybe somebody’s already struggling to come up with a pre-Alpha version of your chinese vegetable app.
I have a couple of the Audubon Field Guides from Green Mountain Digital. While they do not have a guide dedicated to seashells, they have several regional nature guides that include seashells. Here’s the one for New England.
Yeah, I have field guides too, but how cool would it be to have an app to look it up. Especially when travelling, on some foreign shore?
I wasn’t really thinking of my device capturing and recognizing things, like veggies or seashells, as just a reference tool to look it up and a photo to compare it to, for identification. That doesn’t seem so hard. In fact, it seems imminently doable to me!
I was just discussing this with my brother. I want (to invent) an app that converts any song into a classic salsa rhythm, a’la El Gran Combo, with requisite accompanying brass and congas etc. Can you imagine how AWESOME Three Dog Night’s “Just an Old Fashioned Love Song” would be as a salsa number? Or the Smith’s “Everyday is Like Sunday”? I’d call it the Salsafier!
First follow-up app would be a Countrifier (to turn any song into a Country song). Possibilities are endless…
I want an app that’ll change tense of a text in an intelligent manner. Say I’m working on a story in present tense for some reason, and my co-writer forgets in writes in past tense. This program would change all the verbs appropriately for me, perhaps letting me set parameters like don’t change verbs within quotes. Best I can come up with on my own is to write a macro in Word to do all the common verbs I can think of (or all the ones until I run into the max length of variables) but I still have to comb through for one-offs and instances within dialogue that don’t need to be changed, which is time consuming.
Similarly, I’d love an app that’d change POV in a text for me from third to first person or the other way around. I picture you telling the app what the person’s name is if going from 1st to 3rd and gender of the person, or that it should be “I/me” instead of name X, then it finds the places to change things (maybe it lets you preview select/deselect examples before changes are made) and does it.
So far I don’t think programming is this smart yet
I want an app where I can input the ingredients I put in a dish and then hit a button and get nutrition information calculations. I find no two calorie counters are the same, so I don’t know if there’s a standard somewhere.
I want a shooting list app that will do all of the following:
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[li]sync between android devices (and pc ideally)[/li][li]allow multiple shopping lists[/li][li]allow items to be copied from one list to another[/li][li]use barcodes[/li][/ul]
So, I want a list of stuff I buy every week, and a list of stuff I buy regularly, but not every week. When I go shopping I want to take the every week list, select its items, then select items from the regular list to add to it, plus add some odd things based on the menu plan for the week. That then becomes this week’s real shopping list, and if I do it on the tablet I want to send it to my phone. The other day I spent 4 SOLID HOURS installing, testing and deleting every goddamn free shopping list app I could find. Not one of them will do all this stuff. At this point I’m about to resort to building a spreadsheet in Excel and printing the pigging list every week.
I would sob in gratitude if anyone quotes this post and replies “look, eedjit, you missed xxx” or similar, by the way. This has become a slight obsession, I’m a bit Captain Ahab over this.
I want an app that would allow me to temporarily mute nearby people. This was inspired by the many times I found myself trying to mute the dogs with the TV remote.
Ok my app is very easy to make, compared to some here. I just want a browser that can save pages for offline browsing. There are some apps like that on iOS, but I want a bit more:
Save links as well (all or only those on the same server)
Save next pages (URLs ending in p=1 or nextpage=1 etc.)
Refresh all pages with a single button
Automatic refresh
Bonus: tag pages, and update by tag (“daily” or “news”)
Just imagine using it for the SDMB. Save all the threads on page 1 of GQ. Update all my subscribed threads. Load all the other pages of this thread.
Maybe this app exists already, and I just don’t know it, but I wish there was an app that would give an on-screen icon that my ringer is turned off on my iPhone. It’s such a simple thing, and most phones have it as part of their built-in system.
No, I realize that. But they don’t have very extensive seashell coverage, and I want to go to the south seas. I’m just wanting the whole world of seashells, (from Vancouver to Tokyo, and everywhere in between!) all in one app!
I want a mapping app that would let me list all my errands that would then put them into sensible order for minimal backtracking - that would also let me indicate places where I would be buying frozen food or anything that can’t sit in the car while I make four more stops.
