My wife has an idea for a new app. Is it feasible? (1 Viewer)

[Dentist]

This is as good a time as any to announce this....

I am releasing my own app

Youpoop

Its free. You take a photo of your poop and it will tell you precisely how long and at what shower head setting it will break up at while you bathe.

For 99 cents it will remove the ads and also tell u if you are eating too much gluten

buy

I'd like it more if it was called YouTurd

i'd prefer if it was called YouDump - i've just never been fond of turd as a word, but dump... that's awesome

 

[Gianni Verscotchie]

You should hit your wife in the head with a hammer. Like the 3 stooges

 

[flysack]

You should hit your wife in the head with a hammer. Like the 3 stooges

 

[captain_amazing]

I didn't read the whole thread, so sorry if this has already been mentioned. This is feasible to do (not in the way described), but it would not be easy and there are lots of ifs (particularly with privacy concerns).

Essentially, whatever the most popular apps are for listening to music right now (built in radio app, pandora, spotify, etc) would need to provide you some kind of api access to their systems, which would allow you to access various types of information they store. They'd need to store gps coordinates in their system and associate that with whatever song is being played. You'd then code the app to send requests for that data. That data would be cross referenced with the users gps to pull up a list of songs that's people near them are listening too. Could even drop pins on a Google map or something.

That's how I'd do it.

 

[MC Gas Money]

This is as good a time as any to announce this....

I am releasing my own app

Youpoop

Its free. You take a photo of your poop and it will tell you precisely how long and at what shower head setting it will break up at while you bathe.

For 99 cents it will remove the ads and also tell u if you are eating too much gluten

buy

I'd like it more if it was called YouTurd

i'd prefer if it was called YouDump - i've just never been fond of turd as a word, but dump... that's awesome

Changed it to YouShat

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I'm thinking of developing an app that tells you a woman's bra size. That's not creepy, right? So if I see a woman dancing in the streets and I want to know if her breasts have something to do with it, I can just walk up to her and point my phone at her chest and voila! 36D!

Develop an app like that, and your cups will runneth over.

 

[dparker713]

This is Tinder/Grindr with a few extra lines of code.

 

[mr roboto]

I didn't read the whole thread, so sorry if this has already been mentioned. This is feasible to do (not in the way described), but it would not be easy and there are lots of ifs (particularly with privacy concerns).

Essentially, whatever the most popular apps are for listening to music right now (built in radio app, pandora, spotify, etc) would need to provide you some kind of api access to their systems, which would allow you to access various types of information they store. They'd need to store gps coordinates in their system and associate that with whatever song is being played. You'd then code the app to send requests for that data. That data would be cross referenced with the users gps to pull up a list of songs that's people near them are listening too. Could even drop pins on a Google map or something.

That's how I'd do it.

Is GPS sensitive enough to decipher between 4 or 5 people in say the same courtyard or sidewalk?

 

[MC Gas Money]

I didn't read the whole thread, so sorry if this has already been mentioned. This is feasible to do (not in the way described), but it would not be easy and there are lots of ifs (particularly with privacy concerns).

Essentially, whatever the most popular apps are for listening to music right now (built in radio app, pandora, spotify, etc) would need to provide you some kind of api access to their systems, which would allow you to access various types of information they store. They'd need to store gps coordinates in their system and associate that with whatever song is being played. You'd then code the app to send requests for that data. That data would be cross referenced with the users gps to pull up a list of songs that's people near them are listening too. Could even drop pins on a Google map or something.

That's how I'd do it.

Is GPS sensitive enough to decipher between 4 or 5 people in say the same courtyard or sidewalk?

Depends.

If we are talking the deep south they may just count that as one person

 

[FlapJacks]

Is there an app that simply tells you in real-time what song is being broadcast...especially over the radio when the song isn't identified?

Shazam will listen to the song and tell you what it is

 

[captain_amazing]

I didn't read the whole thread, so sorry if this has already been mentioned. This is feasible to do (not in the way described), but it would not be easy and there are lots of ifs (particularly with privacy concerns).

Essentially, whatever the most popular apps are for listening to music right now (built in radio app, pandora, spotify, etc) would need to provide you some kind of api access to their systems, which would allow you to access various types of information they store. They'd need to store gps coordinates in their system and associate that with whatever song is being played. You'd then code the app to send requests for that data. That data would be cross referenced with the users gps to pull up a list of songs that's people near them are listening too. Could even drop pins on a Google map or something.

That's how I'd do it.

Is GPS sensitive enough to decipher between 4 or 5 people in say the same courtyard or sidewalk?

I'm not sure. I don't think identifying what a particular person is listening to in terms of their proximity to you is feasible, although I know that's what the OP was talking about. I figured a good compromise would be an app that would just display songs being played by anyone around you in a list (maybe you could filter by some distances), without identifying the person, which is much more feasible.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Radar is completely wrong. You need Lidar.

 

[Zow]

Not quite a jump to conclusions mat.

 

[tommyGunZ]

She sent an email to Sprint's technical support asking what the next step would be.

Oh, she's one of those. My sympathies GB. Hang in there.

New thread Idea: funny responses that the Sprint tech team wants to send back to Mrs. willie Nelson but can't because they would get fired

 

[Willie Neslon]

She spent the morning working on it. We now have a price ($4.99) and we have a logo. All that's left to do is creating the app.

 

[Guest]

Yesterday while driving home from the grocery store my wife noticed a young lady basically dancing down the street while listening to music on her phone. My wife remarked the lady must really like the song and wondered what song the girl was listening to. That's when the light bulb came on. My wife asked if there was an app where you could find out what other people around you were listening to in their earbuds/on their phones. I said there probably wasn't one. The rest of the night was her talking about her idea and how to go about making it a reality.

My wife has no experience in this field. She worked as a veterinary assistant for a while but decided to quit because she couldn't handle the emotional component of the job. I asked her how she thought the app would work and she thought it could work in a way "similar to radar" where you "point the app" at the person who you want know what music they're listening to. The app will then tell you the song.

She sent an email to Sprint's technical support asking what the next step would be. I voiced some concerns about the app regarding privacy issues which she dismissed, at one point citing "The NFA". I asked her if her app had a name and after a few seconds of thought she came up with "what song are they listening to". I am trying to be supportive and not negative so i told her I'd ask around about it. I know there is an app that can hear a song and tell you what it is but that is not what this would be.

Sometimes inspiration comes from unexpected places. Thanks to this post, I'm designing an app and remote drone that can blow up dogs and cats without the emotional connection of a needle. Thanks to you and your wife!

 

[Guest]

She spent the morning working on it. We now have a price ($4.99) and we have a logo. All that's left to do is creating the app.

Cool logo - but precisely the opposite approach you should be taking considering that privacy issues will be your primary barrier.

 

[Guest]

I think the opportunity is an app where people can curate information about their tastes and willingly broadcast it. If I'm at the coffee shop and there's a girl in the corner, I can discreetly "check her out." What song is she listening to, what artists does she like, what's her favorite movie. It has to be opt in, and you have to find the compelling reason why someone has incentive to share.

For most, I think there's a creepiness factor to strangers knowing too much, and this information would invariably be intercepted by marketers. It's like automatically granting friend status to strangers - which isn't really a good idea.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

The previous mechanism I described would make the app appear to work, but it wouldn't actually return the correct song very often.

After thinking about it a bit more, I do think there's a technologically feasible way to make the app actually work for real.

The user would point her phone at somebody, click the "What's that song?" button on the screen, and then ... walk over to the target and ask, "Hey, man, what song are you listening to?" Then grab his headphones and put them on real fast.

 

[Juxtatarot]

She spent the morning working on it. We now have a price ($4.99) and we have a logo. All that's left to do is creating the app.

I'm not a fan of the logo. I think she needs to go more hipsterish.

 

[Das Boot]

She spent the morning working on it. We now have a price ($4.99) and we have a logo. All that's left to do is creating the app.

I'm not a fan of the logo. I think she needs to go more hipsterish.

Yeah, you can't even see the logo guy's hips.

 

[flysack]

Is there an app that simply tells you in real-time what song is being broadcast...especially over the radio when the song isn't identified?

Shazam will listen to the song and tell you what it is

This reminds me of why I think this is a terrible idea. Shazam. I downloaded it to my ipod a couple years back and never used it. Then one day I'm in a cafe and hear a cool song and instead of asking the girl behind the counter what we were listening to, heaven forbid actually striking up a conversation with a human being, I took out my ipod and proceeded to fumble with the Shazam app to try to get the song name. And while I was fumbling with the app, the girl stood there looking at me, struggling to not laugh. I finally gave up and asked her the name of the song. She smiled (clearly thinking I was a d-bag) and told me.

The point? The OP should tell his wife to effing ask the happy dancing woman what's she's listening to. I bet if the dancing girl is that happy about it, she'll want to share the joy and who knows, maybe a lesbian relationship will kindle to flame with good odds of a threeway down the pike.

 

[Guest]

Is there an app that simply tells you in real-time what song is being broadcast...especially over the radio when the song isn't identified?

Shazam will listen to the song and tell you what it is

This reminds me of why I think this is a terrible idea. Shazam. I downloaded it to my ipod a couple years back and never used it. Then one day I'm in a cafe and hear a cool song and instead of asking the girl behind the counter what we were listening to, heaven forbid actually striking up a conversation with a human being, I took out my ipod and proceeded to fumble with the Shazam app to try to get the song name. And while I was fumbling with the app, the girl stood there looking at me, struggling to not laugh. I finally gave up and asked her the name of the song. She smiled (clearly thinking I was a d-bag) and told me.

The point? The OP should tell his wife to effing ask the happy dancing woman what's she's listening to. I bet if the dancing girl is that happy about it, she'll want to share the joy and who knows, maybe a lesbian relationship will kindle to flame with good odds of a threeway down the pike.

I profoundly agreed with the sentiment. For that once in a blue moon time when you have to know what song someone is listening to - just ask them.

 

[PatsWillWin]

She spent the morning working on it. We now have a price ($4.99) and we have a logo. All that's left to do is creating the app.

 

[Sinrman]

Didn't read every response, but as others have alluded to -- it would have to be a voluntary, opt-in kinda thing. Otherwise, you're eavesdropping, which is illegal. Same goes with listening in on peoples' phone

conversations. You have to have a warrant to do that.

Would some opt-in? Possibly. You never know what people are willing to share. Maybe there is some tune that they feel is awesome and they don't mind sharing it with others...?

 

[MaxThreshold]

Is there an app that simply tells you in real-time what song is being broadcast...especially over the radio when the song isn't identified?

Shazam will listen to the song and tell you what it is

This reminds me of why I think this is a terrible idea. Shazam. I downloaded it to my ipod a couple years back and never used it. Then one day I'm in a cafe and hear a cool song and instead of asking the girl behind the counter what we were listening to, heaven forbid actually striking up a conversation with a human being, I took out my ipod and proceeded to fumble with the Shazam app to try to get the song name. And while I was fumbling with the app, the girl stood there looking at me, struggling to not laugh. I finally gave up and asked her the name of the song. She smiled (clearly thinking I was a d-bag) and told me.

The point? The OP should tell his wife to effing ask the happy dancing woman what's she's listening to. I bet if the dancing girl is that happy about it, she'll want to share the joy and who knows, maybe a lesbian relationship will kindle to flame with good odds of a threeway down the pike.

Now if only someone could make an app where you could point your device at a hot dancing woman listening to a song and a lesbian relationship will kindle with your wife and a threeway ensues.

Now THAT would be the app to develop.

 

[pollardsvision]

Whether the app would work or not, I have no idea, but I don't think getting people to opt in would be all that difficult.

Could be something there. As someone who really doesn't care about music, I've noticed that people absolutely love for others to know what they are listening to. I think you'd have a lot of people opting into something that would tell everyone around them what they are listening to. I don't know there would need to be some other incentive.

To the comment about people putting on headphones to tune out the world, I'm sure that's true for many, but for most, I think they just have headphones on because they want to listen to music or a podcast at that moment and it's not polite to blare it in public.

Nobody even reads all the permissions required to download an app anyway. People would voluntarily give ISIS their credit card info and home security password if it meant being able to share baby pics with the world. The privacy horse is out of the barn.

 

[MaxThreshold]

Even if people DID voluntarily opt in, I can still see the never-ending lawsuits offsetting any profit you may have.

 

[pollardsvision]

What lawsuits are you guys talking about?

People share their location to strangers for the purposes of ####### and traffic updates, along with many other things on very popular apps. Surely, you can get by with an app that lets those around them know what music they are listening to.

 

[PinkydaPimp]

So spotify already broadcasts what your listening to out to all facebook friends if you opt in. If there is an API, you can tap in to that to collect what users are listening to. then tap into google maps and track what people are listening to nearby. Between the two that might be a starting point to see graphically what songs people in your vicinity are listening to.

I dont see the labels having a problem with this as its free advertising. In fact, its something that might appeal to them(maybe get one to fund the project).