I have recently been exposed to the technique of creating a large volume of ideas in order to come up with just a few good ones. In an effect to explore this I am going to write 100 ideas for mobiles apps. Since I am going to be making a living in this area of software development I need a large inventory of ideas to start with. I'm not judging the quality of each of these ideas, I'm going for quantity here. Some of these are going to be silly, some outragous, and hopefully a few will make the final grade and turn into usable, and profitable apps.
- Ice cream builder game
- Food logging app with online posting
- Facebook friend tracking - GPS
- Google event handler for publishing posts
- Noodle maker
- Dog training logger
- Baby monitor
- Hand sanitizer
- Head measuring app
- Candle lighter
- Firewood finder
- Envelope printing app
- Kindle book reader and document converter
- Website design app
- Capture the flag tracking app
- Shoe size finder
- Friend locator
- 3D imersion video game using gyroscope for orientation
- Star field viewer from random points in the universe
- Wedding ring finder
- Choosing the perfect bottle of wine for your meal
- Getting your guests to leave app
- Newspaper boy thrasher
- Lawn care recomendations app
- Home decoration guide
- Monopoly opponent finder
- Blog advertising app
- Advertising progress tracker
- Advertising idea generator
- Water feature designer
- Water flow analyser
- Fluid dynamics reference
- Programmers reference for Joomla
- Joomla component designer
- Component creation for iPhone applications
- iPhone app to recommend other iphone apps based on your current personal preferences
- Learning app that guesses your next move in a game.
- Artificial inteligence speech coach
- Text to speech translator
- Translator for migrating a PHP application to a mobile app.
- Web application interface that controlls a mobile app
- Image processing to reveal hidden text
- Conspiracy theories collection
- Classic consipracy theories and superstitions
- Book library reference
- Book affiliate app for browsing through the Amazon Sci-Fi collection.
- Sci-Fi adventure game combining multiple characters from difference television shows.
- Television show index and trivia app
- Trivia game with multiple versions and platforms
- UFO hot spot locator
- Alien hunter game
- Ghost sighting database
- UFO designer app
- Networked trivia game
- Sock puppet maker
- Laundra-mat locator
- Bill reducer app
- Financial assistance database
- Unclaimed scholarship database
- College hang-out finder
- Magazine recommendations based on music library contents
- Kids animated match game
- Kids story telling app
- Netflix downloader
- Tax buddy - reducing your taxes all year
- Coffee assistant - brew the perfect cup every time
- Dog GPS tracking
- Kid GPS locator and tracker
- Peer-to-peer range and direction finder
- Cartoon character dress-up app
- Dress-your-dog designer app.
- Camera to camera file transfer using flash as signal generator
- Gyger Counter
- First-Aid reference
- DIY library and refernce
- WWMD - What Would MacGyver Do app
- Networked battleship game
- Howling impersonation
- Palm Karaoke
- Baby cry interpreter.
- Police band scanner
- How to talk your way out of a speeding ticket
- Retina scanner
- Rubber band snapper - stress releif
- Yoga breath coach
- Pregnancy breathing coach
- Sleep breathing timer
- Sleep cycle reader
- Dream interpretation
- Sign language interpreter
- Sign language reference
- Sign language trainer
- Dream journal
- Toddler Interpreter
- Zoo Maps
- Dignity analyser
- Etch-a-scetch simulator
- Gyroscopic mouse
- Party planning helper
- Death Ray
That's not too bad for just over an hour of brain storming and free-writing. Remember, these don't have to make sense or even be possible from a technical perspective. The point was to get as many ideas out there as possible and the cherry pick the good ones. Going back over the list, I think my top 10 are as follows:
Baby Monitor
Envelope Printing App
Trivia game with multiple versions and platforms
UFO Hotspot Locator
Sock puppet maker
WWMD - What Would MacGyver Do app
Palm Karaoke
Retina scanner
Etch-a-scetch simulator
Gyroscopic mouse
Do you have a favorite? I'm open to suggestions, comments, and even hate mail. I'm going to go over each of the top ten and figure out which ones I'm going to actually build. This has been a really fun exercise, and it seems to have produced some really interesting app ideas.