Sylwia VargasI was recently told that every time we make a to-do list app or a weather app, a koala dies somewhere. Let's stop this together!
Below are some app ideas that loosely came to my mind. I added emojis to make it easier for you to identify the apps that could become your next passion projects:
💕 helping others / more friends
🌍 sustainable world
👩⚖️ social justice
🧞♂️ everyday practical
🎁 misc
1. Metro locator 👩⚖️ 🧞♂️ 💕
- an app locating the closest subway stop that has an elevator
2.Food-sharing app 🌍 💕
- share food you won’t eat
- bonus: maybe an option for restaurants to join and a separate UI?
3. Social gatherings 💕
- an app that helps you engage strangers in random impromptu games/challenges/conversations -- it could use geolocation to see whether another app user is in proximity
4. Brain teasers 🧞♂️
- an app for bored people that sends fun activities, brain teasers or goofy challenges
5. Teamwork is Dreamwork 🧞♂️ 💕
- pair-programming app that helps you set up fruitful collaboration
- bonus: accountability check
6. Hands-free game 🎁
- a hands-free game like this one: https://duckhunt-handsfree.glitch.me
7. Text generator 🎁
- a lorem ipsum generator like https://www.affirmations.madewithtech.com/
8. Coding quiz 🧞♂️ 💕
- a quiz-based site that challenges you to transform functions to arrow functions, to use destructuring or translate methods between js and ruby
9. Sentiment-based news site 🧞♂️
- a news site that uses IBM Watson to determine if a given news piece feels angry, etc.
10. Money counting app 🧞♂️ 👩⚖️ 💕
- an app that helps people with dyscalculia to determine how much money they have in the wallet
11. Art generator 🎁
- a page that generates a Yayoi Kusama random painting. Or Alma Thomas. Or Piet Mondrian.
12. Bookmark extension 🧞♂️
- an app/extension that helps you save a link to your bookmarks
- bonus: it could also work on slack
13. Fluffy Alexa skill 🧞♂️ 💕
- an Alexa Skill that tells you nice things every day
- bonus: maybe they are in some way personalized?
14. Online treasure hunt 🎁
- bonus: 💕 with an option to communicate with others? Or, a leaderboard?
15. Carbon footprint calculator 🌍
- an app that calculates how much carbon footprint your grocery shopping/general habits contribute to and educates you on eco-lifestyle
16. Water waste calculator 🌍
- an app that calculates how much water your clothes used to be created (and maybe invites others to do the same?)
17. Timeline! 🎁
- an interactive timeline of some music history / game history / social justice stuff
18. Front page generator 🎁
- a website that creates a newspaper front page with news of your choosing or with media uploaded by you
19. City trivia 🎁
- an app for people who just moved to the city that responds to geolocation and sends out facts about the area
20. Browser history detective 🎁
- OMG imagine a game in which you are given someone’s browser search history and on that basis invites you to make some guesses about the person
21. Gamer's bingo board 👩⚖️
- A gaming reddit scanning app that looks for most common sexist comments, then checks a bingo board and sends automatic comment if more than 30% of the board is checked, like this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/195625177536611475/
22. Making sidewalks even 👩⚖️ 💕
- an app that helps you report uneven sidewalks instantly, with a click
23. Trading app 🎁
- a sneakers/Magic the Gathering card trading app
24. Film production call sheets 🎁
- an app that helps you builds a call sheet for film production
25. End subscription? 🧞♂️
- an app that helps you keep track of your online subscriptions
- bonus: it sends notifications when the free trial is done or sets a reminder on your phone (in your calendar app?)
26. Bug tracker 💕
- a cute app that helps you and your team log the errors/bugs you got this week and invites you to celebrate as a team every 100th bug
27. Trivia 🎁
- an app that sends you push notifications/emails every day with some very specific trivia
28. More app ideas 🎁 🧞♂️ 💕
- an app that generates app ideas
29. Plant parenthood 🧞♂️
- an app that reminds you to water/move your plants.
30. Horoscopes 🎁
- mad-libs horoscope app
31. To the loo 👩⚖️ 🧞♂️ 💕
- An app that helps you locate the nearest available bathroom, allows you to rate its cleanliness/accessibility, leave comments + has a filter for gender-neutral bathrooms
32. Data Viz 🎁 👩⚖️
- Data visualization of any of the OpenDataNYC
33. Dating app for social justice warriors 👩⚖️ 🧞♂️ 💕
34. Humane meetings 🧞♂️ 💕
- a meeting scheduling app that forces you to include in the agenda 15-minute breaks every 3 hours and an hour-long lunch break
35. Better carpooling 👩⚖️ 🧞♂️ 💕
- a carpooling app that prevents drivers from canceling on people with disabilities or PoC
36. Loving chatbot 👩⚖️ 💕
- a Slack chatbot that corrects your messages with regards to inclusive language
37. Weather app?? 🧞♂️
- a weather app (hold off your judgment) that actually tells you how to dress -- New York's 50F is very different from Berlin's 50F due to humidity
