Key insights

• Weird & Quirky Software Features

  • 🤪 Desire for weirder and quirkier software features
  • ⏳ Push for more experimentation with time-based apps and unique user interactions
  • 🌐 Recognition of companies pushing the edge with social apps
  • 🆕 Acknowledgment of the potential existence of numerous fun and cool apps yet to be explored

• Cozy & Fun Software Development

  • 😄 Desire for more software that simulates simple and fun experiences
  • 🔥 Emphasis on creating cozy and warm software experiences
  • 😞 Lamenting the lack of fun and surprise in modern software development
  • 🔄 Shift from a hobbyist ethos to a more predictable and less explorative approach

• Scarcity & Unique Experiences

  • 🔒 Limiting access to apps and creating scarcity in the app market
  • ♻️ Discontinuing apps to create a collector's market
  • 💰 Potential for a secondhand app trading market
  • 🏢 Real-world inspirations for product development in software industry
  • 🌈 Value of ephemeral or unique experiences in software and beyond
  • 🎭 Conceptual ideation and playfulness in software development

• Sketching App & Marketing Strategy

  • 🍕 Use of a sketching app for Domino's Pizza
  • 🔝 Importance of SEO in marketing and business
  • 🖐️ Challenge of replicating analog finger dynamics on a touchscreen
  • 💡 Focus on product development and finding unique ideas
  • 📈 Approach to marketing and building a large audience
  • 💎 Concept of limited edition apps and a novelty expensive app

• Ephemeral Drawing App

  • 🚿 Creating an iPad app simulating drawing on a steamy shower door
  • 🎨 Emphasis on ephemeral nature and simplicity
  • 💻 Desire for realistic simulation, seeking a skilled developer
  • 📏 App providing a temporary sketching space without complex tools

• Real-time & Mystery Experiences

  • ⏰ Real-time, mystery, and treasure hunt experiences online
  • 🕒 Scheduled content and opening/closing hours on the internet
  • 📺 Unconventional entertainment options like a TV with a random channel switch
  • 🔍 Value of real-time, non-archived content in an on-demand world

• Ad-based App Concept

  • 💡 Idea for an ad-based app with a daily scratch-off activity
  • 🌍 Global phenomenon and potential for geolocated variations
  • 🎮 Unique interaction with blowing off screen 'dust' through the microphone
  • 📍 Ideas for special interests and geographical targeting
  • 📱 Phone app with scratch-off ads and massive ad inventory potential
  • 🎁 Idea similar to HQ Trivia with advertiser-sponsored prizes and time-based probability of winning

Q&A

• What other unique app concepts and market strategies are mentioned?

  Various concepts such as limiting access to apps, discontinuing apps, and creating a secondhand app trading market are explored. The video also touches on the lack of weird and quirky features in the software industry, calling for more experimentation, especially with time-based apps and user interactions.

• What are some discussed strategies for app development and marketing?

  The discussion covers the importance of SEO in marketing, the challenge of replicating analog finger dynamics on a touchscreen for a sketching app, and the concept of limited edition apps as well as a novelty expensive app. There are also insights into the value of real-time, mystery, and treasure hunt experiences online.

• How does the speaker describe the software industry's current state?

  The speaker expresses a desire for more fun and excitement in modern software, emphasizing the importance of cozy and warm experiences over clinical and cold designs. There is also a highlighted shift from a hobbyist ethos to a less explorative approach in software development.

• What are the unique interactions involved in the proposed ad-based app?

  In addition to scratching off the full-screen ad, the app is suggested to have a unique interaction where users can blow off 'dust' through the microphone, adding to the engaging experience.

• What is the idea for the ad-based app discussed in the video?

  The video presents the idea of an ad-based app where users can scratch off a full-screen ad once a day to reveal a coupon. This is proposed as a fun daily activity with global popularity potential.

• 00:00 An idea for an ad-based app where users scratch off a full-screen ad once a day to reveal a coupon, creating a fun and simple daily activity with potential for global popularity.
• 06:08 The speaker has 30+ startup ideas, some of which are based on validated concepts from successful entrepreneurs. One idea involves a phone app with scratch-off ads and potential for massive ad inventory. Another idea is similar to HQ Trivia but with advertiser-sponsored prizes and a higher chance of winning based on the time of participation.
• 12:37 Discussing the concept of real-time, mystery, and treasure hunt experiences online. Exploring the idea of having scheduled content and embracing the concept of opening and closing hours on the internet. Considering unconventional entertainment options like a TV with a random channel switch. Emphasizing the value of real-time, non-archived content in a world of on-demand everything.
• 18:19 Two individuals discuss the idea of creating an iPad app that simulates drawing on a steamy shower door, emphasizing the ephemeral nature and simplicity of the experience. They express the desire for realistic simulation and seek a skilled developer to accomplish this. The app aims to provide a temporary sketching space without complex tools or permanent features.
• 24:03 The speaker discusses the use of a sketching app, marketing strategy, product development, and limited edition apps.
• 30:17 The discussion explores the concept of limiting access to apps or creating scarcity in the app market. It also touches on the idea of discontinuing apps to create a collector's market and the potential for creating a secondhand app trading market. The conversation delves into the real-world inspirations for product development in the software industry and the value of ephemeral or unique experiences.
• 36:02 The speaker discusses the lack of fun and excitement in modern software, highlighting the importance of cozy and warm experiences in contrast to clinical and cold designs. They also emphasize the shift from a hobbyist ethos to a more predictable and less explorative approach in software development.
• 42:12 The software industry lacks weird and quirky features, and there is a call to make the internet weird again. There is a need for more experimentation with time-based apps and user interactions. Companies like amo Amo in Paris are pushing the edge with their social apps. The internet may still be very weird in many ways, and there's a plea for more exposure to unknown cool apps and fun ideas.