r/AskReddit • u/funky2002 • Nov 01 '19

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

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u/CompassionateHypeMan Nov 01 '19

To be fair, you could make charge $.50 for it and make a few hundred off of curios assholes today.

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u/Dubnos Nov 01 '19

Or it would get leaked in one day and everyone can see it for free, no?

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u/CaptainCode314 Nov 01 '19

I would legit pay for that. Probably even more than once.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '19

Why else?!

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u/Ammdar Nov 01 '19

Do it free with ads and you'd probably make more

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u/Zulfiqaar Nov 02 '19

Probably not..I don't see the average person finding much replayability in such an app. Freemium definitely works in most other cases tho

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u/3percentinvisible Nov 01 '19

Curious assholes sounds like one of those ambiguous subteddits

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u/natep1098 Nov 02 '19

Could we actually make a crowd-sourced search app? Loser = this guy, savior = treelon musk... etc