"Killer Apps" - A Few Select Ideas, Free to Use Opportunities for Coders💽
I've been writing software and firmware of all kinds since I was a teen-ager.
I suspect that, for many of my readers, this means I was coding before you were born.
Combine that with a very rich imagination. Quite early in my career as a programmer, I envisioned several application programs (to be honest, this was long before the shorthand term "App" was in vogue) that, could they only be implemented, would "blow the doors" off of anything else.
Without further ado, I will freely share these ideas with all you young, ambitious coders out there, asking only that you remember me kindly after you've become rich and famous.
The first of my "Killer App" concepts is Software Levitation.
By "Software Levitation," I of course mean this:
Software Levitation: SmartPhone Strapped to the Back of a Yogi
Photo courtesy of Muu-karhu and https://commons.wikimedia.org, CC BY-SA 2.0
Write a piece of code that,
when executed, causes the computer on which it is running to gently rise up off of the table or out of the user's hand.
If your app is truly successful, if it provides sufficient lifting force, you might also be able to harness it to a vehicle or a backpack and lift useful loads, as illustrated above.
Should you in fact develop this app, may I ask one more kind favor? Keep the royalties; but please, share the app with me? I've wanted all my life to build a spaceship, and this app would be my ticket to the moon and Mars.
Second on my list of Killer Apps is Software Invisibility.
By "Software Invisibility," I of course mean this: Write a piece of code that, when executed, causes the computer on which it is running to fade from view, allowing whatever is behind it to be clearly seen, just as if the computer were not there.
Software Invisibility: Can You See the Computer?
Photo courtesy of garann and http://flickr.com, CC BY-SA 2.0
Of course, range and scalability are serious issues.
You get bonus points if, for example, your app — when running on a smart phone — makes the user in whose pocket the phone is, also invisible.
This level of functionality is certainly rather dangerous. Such an app would be highly sought after by thieves and voyeurs. However, I think it would be quite safe, and still very useful, on a smaller scale; i.e., just strong enough to hide modest-sized items.
For example, a microcontroller running your Software Invisibility app could be attached to that cookie jar where you keep those few extra "mad money" bucks hidden.
Note that these concepts may be combined.
The more clever among you coders ought to be able to, with the use of a suitable real-time multi-tasking OS, or even a multi-core ARM processor, be able to run both of these killer apps at the same time, as in the example below.
Software Levitation and Invisibility Combined: Installed and Running in a Tesla
Photo courtesy of Andrés Nieto Porras and http://flickr.com, CC BY-SA 2.0
Yes, I realize that these apps are — at least for the moment — pure fantasy; but they have brought more than one smile to the faces of the programming friends with whom I have shared them.
I wait, with bated breath, for news that you've developed and released new versions of these Killer Apps, but I hope they at least give you something to smile about today.
Thanks for your time and attention.
I'm here on Steemit because of you, my readers. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for you!
This post is intended to count towards @dragosroua's Challenge30.
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You have a mad imagination but wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't try :)
Hahaha... Thanks, Karen... You don't write software, do you Dear? ;)
Nope but wish I did :)
Take it up! You'll have some fun! :)
I am going to have a look and see what's available :)
I know a free course that I might find a go first to see if I can do it, the old brain matter is dying lol you never know I might surprise myself :)
You won't surprise me at all when you tell me one day that you've done it, and that you're having fun! But you will make me glad to hear it if you do! ;)
I might then I can she your apps and run away wth the profits with my invisible levitating laptop haha :)
LOL! Sounds like fun... You go, girl! :)
Haha, well I guess I should comment on this now, but I did in fact already read this and upvoted it I think last night. It was indeed a good read.
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
I want a levitation computer! What if I then sit on it? Will it still levitate?
That's the idea! We just have to write a program that's robust enough! ;)
you exist in a different world from me, my friend. You program and code and surf (not just the web) and I go into dreams and get lost in a world of words. It's a wonder we have so much in common lol
All the more reason to look forward to sitting down face to face one of these days and compare notes... :) I'll continue to look forward to that event. Meanwhile, thanks for "stopping by" and reading! ;)
Following you both and that's the beauty of steemit for me at least, finding people that do what I would , or people that do things I wouldn't have thought of , the box of chocolates you don't know which you are going to get :D
I'm following you both , so good luck :)
thanks @j3dy :)
already voting for profits :D , still haven't read your works I did open your past post , but It's material and I couldn't go through it.
Just put it out and promote that it's going to somehow use the ethereum blockchain, and someone will pump ethereum to hell XD
L.O.L.! That ought to work, Thanks for the suggestion! :)
:D you scheming market pusher :D , that's how currency crashes :D ,
what do you mean you are not running the levitation app , :D
Hahah honestly, I could not care less about eth or trading. Fact is that btc is the most likely to be mass adopted as it's the most well known. Steem next as it has a legitimate use.
Eth? It's got no killer blockchain app, a hell of a lot of hype, and no substantial uses... and has been slowly in decline for months, only recently turning upwards. Too risky imho.
how about Rump ,April Fools ? :D