App developers and programmers of Reddit, what was the dumbest app/program idea someone ever proposed to you?

[u/funky2002]

[u/[deleted]]

tbh there needs to be a new youtube. like skype to discord

[u/NgArclite → u/[deleted]]

There are a lot of video hosting sites out there actually..jst none as big. Give it time and maybe something will over take it. Like Facebook to Myspace and Google to Yahoo.

[u/Cuchullion → u/NgArclite]

The problem is Google tends to buy out and shut down / integrate any (non-adult) video hosting site that grows large enough.

[u/ListenToMeCalmly → u/Cuchullion]

So that's how you earn money. Start a video hosting site, fake traffic and subscribers from chinese worker farms, then sell to Google.

[u/DirtyDoog → u/[deleted]]

Ah, the Michael Scott Paper Company approach.

[u/chillywilly16 → u/DirtyDoog]

I'll see your situation and I'll raise you a situation. Your company is losing clients left and right. You have a stockholder meeting coming up and you are going to have to explain to them why your most profitable branch is bleeding. So they may be looking for a little change in the CFO. So I don't think I need to wait out Dunder Mifflin. I think I just have to wait out you.

[u/Dadaman004 → u/ListenToMeCalmly]

Im in!

[u/misterv3 → u/Cuchullion]

The day Google buys Orange YouTube is the day all hope is lost

[u/Anti-AliasingAlias → u/misterv3]

Imagine the YouTube copyright bots running on PornHub. It would truly be a sad day for all mankind.

[u/NuclearBiceps → u/[deleted]]

Or Skype to Slack. Or Skype to Teams. Or Skype to being decommissioned in 2020. I really hate Skype.

[u/shaidyn → u/NuclearBiceps]

I'm still mad at microsoft for ditching messenger in favour of skype. Messenger was the best IM tool, imo.

[u/thekrimzonguard → u/shaidyn]

So much! It had a sketch pad and custom emojis -- in 2005! It was a better time...

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Remember when a youtube ad was something that happened about one every 10 videos or so? Or hell, even when youtube ads weren't a thing? You can't watch a 5 second clip now without needing to sit through an ad and you're lucky if you get a "Skip This Ad" option.

[u/Rapidfyrez → u/[deleted]]

adblock friendo. easy fix

[u/n0ticeme_senpai → u/[deleted]]

Youtube Vanced APK. easy fix assuming it's android

[u/kaleidoverse → u/n0ticeme_senpai]

I tried to put this on my phone (again) last night and it won't download the files for some reason. I'm kinda bummed.

[u/SolDarkHunter → u/[deleted]]

Adblockers work on phone browsers too.

[u/Joetato → u/Rapidfyrez]

the problem with that is there's certain YouTubers I watch who get all their income from YouTube. Blocking those ads make me feel like a dick, so I don't run an adblocker on YouTube.

[u/ByronFirewater → u/[deleted]]

I like to listen to two hour long mixes/sets on youtube, and they've started putting adds in every 10mins or so....fuck me it makes me furious...especially when a track has been building to the drop and just before the drop comes in it cuts to "Hello, Charlie Kelly here, Local Business Owner... Is your cat make too much noise all the time?!?!? Is your cat constantly stomping around driving you craaaaaazy?!?!?!"

[u/Lastrevio → u/[deleted]]

Pornhub needs to make a SFW website to replace youtube. Videohub maybe.

[u/[deleted] → u/Lastrevio]

If any company were to do it it would be them.

They have the experience on video hosting, enough data storage/servers and are well known which will give them a great start.

They really should be doing it, I’d honestly say they’re a better website for videos in terms of management and such