I only make computer screen size apps

I mean depending on how feature rich and how important security is to you a lot of the social network sites have open source clones that would work but probably abandoned long ago.

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PendragonDaGreat@reddit

Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1605/

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JorgeMtzb@reddit

God damn it they really do have one for anything

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odraencoded@reddit

\>input is 6+ divs deep \>no `<main>` tag \>no `<label>` tag \>class names are gibberish They don't practice the best web practices, smh my head

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I know you're joking but on the last one class names are intentionally obfuscated, they write them with normal names and then when it gets sent out to prod the name get intentionally mangled to make it harder to parse just by looking at it.

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odraencoded@reddit

I thought they did it to save a few bytes.

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SwabTheDeck@reddit

Probably neither, actually. It's probably a build system generating randomized class names so that they can be tied to some other bit of data in JS. You can see they do things like this: <div class="RNNXgb" jsname="RNNXgb"> ... which is probably making either this specific div or a set of similar divs easily accessible in some way in JS. They're also saving bytes, but it's likely a side effect.

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PendragonDaGreat@reddit

The class that indicates an image search image used to be something like adYjdzq or something like that img-res is the same length and way mor informative

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odraencoded@reddit

Sure, but they probably have tons of classes, and they have all sorts of crazy different versions for webpages, A/B testing all the time, etc. It could be they just generate an unique string for each of them so it's easier to debug afterwards.

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sashaisafish@reddit

Question: why is this? I know when I use styled components and some styling libraries (like bootstrap and mui, I can't remember the proper name for them right now, I'm still very much a beginner) they do this as well, but I've never known why...

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PendragonDaGreat@reddit

1. Reduces accidental collisions 2. Obfuscate the information away from scrapers by making it more difficult to parse initially, then changing it periodically.

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sashaisafish@reddit

Thanks for answering! :) That makes sense, is hiding it from scrapers largely to make it harder for (especially scammers) to make clone websites?

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VitaminnCPP@reddit (OP)

Backend is for lossers

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FurryMoistAvenger@reddit

Requirements: 300 petabytes local storage

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dalphinwater@reddit

I have a 2tb ssd, would that work?

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TTYY_20@reddit

My minimum requirements are 1 Exabyte

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lackluster-name-here@reddit

“I’m sure we can use compression to fit it on the client” - some manager

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dym_sh@reddit

`let internet = {}`

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lackluster-name-here@reddit

We’re gonna need a bigger mutex

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FurryMoistAvenger@reddit

And just a bit more ram

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Pandafishe@reddit

"I don't care, not my job" - some underpaid developer

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ScreenshotShitposts@reddit

"aww shit here we go again" - junior dev on the zoom call

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Importanyhdf@reddit

If I were you, I'd charge by the pixel.

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monkeybanana550@reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/11zin6k/i_only_make_computer_screen_size_apps/jdcluxa Report u/Importanyhdf as spam>harmful bot. Account is a copypaste comment bot.

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Profwertyt@reddit

Did you tell them to use ChatGPT to do it? #HowToSayF**kOffPolitely

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Xszit@reddit

This comment was made by a bot, copy and pasted from another comment further down the thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/11zin6k/i_only_make_computer_screen_size_apps/jdd41bw?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

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giaa262@reddit

Don't forget under resourced. Paying a talented dev half a million a year isn't going to fix you offshoring important backend functionality to people who have no idea how the previous on shore team built it.

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BookInternational260@reddit

Can I apply? Or is this for horses only?

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IReallyCantTalk@reddit

We should try the middle out algorithm!

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dotslashpunk@reddit

just put it up on S3, can’t cost more than a few hundred thousand a month

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SomethingIWontRegret@reddit

Epstein bytes. We had a Sony Petafile at one time. We couldn't say it without cracking up.

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delvach@reddit

Those things are unreliable; too many child processes.

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gophergun@reddit

YaCy moment

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Ash-Catchum-All@reddit

My app makes money by selling user data. It’s a single text input field that writes txt files to an s3 bucket. You just put whatever you want in there, like your name, DOB, social security number, dank copypastas, you name it

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LukeChriswalker@reddit

I wanna do it just because. Someone ask me to build them just a website and I have the client freeze and scrape websites when searching Do not ask me to make software, I know how not to do it and I will do it

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Single_Bookkeeper_11@reddit

That's actually interesting. Could you theoretically get the user ip banned by doing this?

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Lacutis@reddit

As someone who does a large amount of automated scraping, the answer is kind of. The most common deterrent that happens when you do stuff like this is presenting captchas to break automated browsing. It's fine to test on a single IP but if you want any kind of sustained large volume scraping you need multiple ips with staggered page loads to defeat automation detectors.

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Single_Bookkeeper_11@reddit

yup, I have a fair amount of experience with webscraping too, but I am wondering if some random javascript running in your browser could get your ip banned as a form of sabotage Steps: 1. Buy a javascript enabled add 2. Load the add with scraping javascript code 3. Victim visits the webpage with the add and javascript loads 4. Victim's ip gets banned and throttled with captchas

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Lacutis@reddit

Most ad networks iframe their ad containers so you are pretty limited in what you can access from the page the ad is on.

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LukeChriswalker@reddit

Depending on what xou do, probably. If you probe every domain, you're bound to hit a hoster like cloudflare who'd probably be annoyed, if you even get past the verification

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Single_Bookkeeper_11@reddit

I was unclear, but I meant it as an offensive thing. Getting the user ip banned on purpose

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LukeChriswalker@reddit

Ah. Yes, same way, but someone else mentioned CORS and now I'm not so sire anymore. When in doubt just write an exe and send it the user as "Bill_56A379_2023-03-23_PayPal.pdf" and get them IP banned that way, much easier

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Hurtfulbirch@reddit

Isn’t CORS going to block pretty much every request you try to make?

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LukeChriswalker@reddit

Fuck CORS I suppose, I'm a back end dev because of shit like that. My Queue doesn't want to scroll to the active element, my Cache doesn't get blocked by CORS

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VampiricGarlicBread@reddit

CORS policies are mainly enforced by browsers, aren't they? If you use any other tool, it won't care what the target website's CORS policies are

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jwkdjslzkkfkei3838rk@reddit

Do we even need a backend, if the frontend can make SQL queries directly?

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Salty_Engineer6278@reddit

Thats funny cuz I have been contemplating doing this for a personal project bc I don’t want to spend money hosting a server

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Ash-Catchum-All@reddit

My app makes money by selling user data. It’s a single text input field that writes txt files to an s3 bucket. You just put whatever you want in there, like your name, DOB, social security number, dank copypastas, you name it

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BlackDeath3@reddit

> web scrapping That's what I call my deployments

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IWAHalot@reddit

Backend will be all GPT from here on out

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Geister_faust@reddit

Why stop there, why not do some mining too?

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EsMuyBuenoSi@reddit

Lossers? losers* Web scrapping? You mean it destroys a web? scraping* For the love of fuck, if your code is as poor as your English, I want nothing to do with your app.

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Stupid_Triangles@reddit

DONT YOU EVER TALK TO ME OR MY APP DEVELOPER AGAIN!

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StatusAntelope2519@reddit

For the love of fuck, if your ability to spot a bug is as poor as your ability to spot a joke I want nothing to do with your app.

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Character-Education3@reddit

For some people Reddit is like their job. Their unpaid job that they take super seriously for no pay. Needs to be perfect at all times. Nothing that would upset a client like an errant apostrophe. They just don't understand people who use reddit for a quick way to destress or kill time. They,LL be ok though...

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robotoshi@reddit

r/whoosh

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AresZs@reddit

I gonna scraaaaaape

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neomeow@reddit

Did you tell them to use ChatGPT to do it? #HowToSayF**kOffPolitely

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jefesignups@reddit

I shit you not the other day we had this conversation. Manager: Can we add a search bar to the map? Us: Sure, what do you want to search? Manager: Everything

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Earlwink@reddit

![gif](giphy|7cTTE2Z1OmrFm)

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bmxtiger@reddit

I now hear this but with chapgpt thrown randomly in there somewhere.

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mngeese@reddit

Do they not need blockchain anymore?

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notKRIEEEG@reddit

Just use Chat GPT to create Blockchains! I've asked for it and it gave me a free Hash! >0x8f6d2341b25fa43692e26c105c0e8f485eaf9d44c3b36673a6c8d2cd0891a2a2

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4ware_@reddit

Put a Splunk search bar there.

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LinAGKar@reddit

I've had an employer tell me a combo box needs to work "like Google". It was enough to split the string by whitespace and search for each part separately.

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SimplexSimon@reddit

This is what they pay us the big bucks for

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Spy_crab_@reddit

Just call Chat-GPT, no problem.

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ImplementNo88dd@reddit

10/10

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IfIWasCoolEnough@reddit

And Bing API in the backend.

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dMestra@reddit

Your first mistake was asking a non-programmer to imagine the architecture lol

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robert_gaut@reddit

If I were you, I'd charge by the square millimeter. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|sweat_smile)

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apex32@reddit

Lol, remember the [Million Dollar Homepage] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage)?

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Bongsandbdsm@reddit

"Tew dropped out of the business degree the site was set up to fund after one term" Lol fucking scammed

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turningsteel@reddit

The guy made a million dollars on his website idea to raise money for business school. What would he need business school for at that point? I just seeing it as using his time wisely to leave after one term.

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DisgracefulPengu@reddit

Yeah, bro is killing it

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wasdninja@reddit

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

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thedonald_ethtrader@reddit

Wow at first glance I thought it was r/place

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ProgramTheWorld@reddit

That idea existed before r/place was a thing

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nekrosstratia@reddit

That idea existed before Reddit was a thing ;)

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Gen_Zer0@reddit

It actually was launched about 2 months after Reddit was launched, so no

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CrumblingCake@reddit

That probably means was right.

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FoxerHR@reddit

Congrats on getting reddited.

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u966@reddit

> Supported by the funding from Y Combinator,[28] Huffman coded the site in Common Lisp[29] and together with Ohanian launched Reddit in June 2005. > Alex Tew, a student from Cricklade in Wiltshire, England, conceived The Million Dollar Homepage in August 2005 when he was 21 years old. Close but no cigar

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Varpie@reddit

The website launched in August. Surely the idea is older though. Taking more than 2 months to go from idea to execution seems likely, so the idea is still likely older than Reddit.

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u966@reddit

And June 2005 was when reddit launched, which one do you think took longer to go from idea to launch?

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Varpie@reddit

I guess it depends on how you defined it "was a thing". If we're just talking about idea, then sure, but if we're talking about it being an actual website anyone can use, I stand with my point.

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u966@reddit

> He was about to begin a three-year Business Management course at the University of Nottingham /.../ As a money-raising idea /.../ The website went live on 26 August 2005 Seems to me to be within the same month. Doubt it took more than 2 months.

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Frodolas@reddit

It says "conceived" in August. And no, it really didn't take more than 2 months back then to go from an idea as simple as million dollar homepage to execution.

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Coretron@reddit

It was the most dugg link back in 05

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daxtron2@reddit

And it was only 1465 diggs to do that, the internet was a much smaller place back then.

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0lazy0@reddit

Woah that’s cool. Was r/place inspired by this?

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kwarantaene2020@reddit

“I mean it's one pixel, Michael, what could it cost, 1 dollar?”

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lotta0@reddit

forget, but never forgive

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vanderZwan@reddit

I wonder if anyone kept track of which domains expired and then got bought up by other companies. Could be an interesting case study of internet bit rot.

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greendude120@reddit

> The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew] a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. > Tew dropped out of the business degree the site was set up to fund after one term

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John_cCmndhd@reddit

>it received 1465 Diggs, becoming one of the most **Dugg** links that week TIL, the past tense verb of Digg

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PM_COFFEE_TO_ME@reddit

This always reminds me of Office Space pet rock convo. He made a million dollars!

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HateYouKillYou@reddit

Didn't reddit do some derivitive shit like that? Pixel battles and shit?

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FuriousGremlin@reddit

r/place yea

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EdgeMentality@reddit

r/place

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Gupperz@reddit

Paid in exposure

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beatrailblazer@reddit

They have a Pixel 7, so it won't be too expensive

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VitaminnCPP@reddit (OP)

chatgeByPixel("an_app");

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Lizten182@reddit

I was trying to help my friend make a bit for discord. I’m not super knowledgeable but I can make basic shit work with google sometimes. Anyways I asked what language he was using and he told me “English”

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MySpaceEmoCat@reddit

"What language do you want me to code in?" "Uhm... English?"

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VitaminnCPP@reddit (OP)

"What will your App supposed to do." "Umm.... It's like Tinder.... But for horses"

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KimonoDragon814@reddit

I need you to build Horse Economy 3: Stable Markets for me Budget is 3.50 timeline 2 weeks

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Ink_25@reddit

r/CitiesSkylines is that way, fellow redditor

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Pfheonix@reddit

I ain't givin' you no tree fiddy, Tech Ness Monster!

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EldeederSFW@reddit

If it uses AI Blockchain I am in!

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FrankHightower@reddit

Better, it uses AI Art -generated NFTs!

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skildert@reddit

Nice, those will be used as login tokens.

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EldeederSFW@reddit

We just need to find a programmer to build it! They’ll get 10% equity and we’ll split the remaining 90%, because it’s our idea.

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not-my-best-wank@reddit

Can I apply? Or is this for horses only?

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Lemon_Sack@reddit

It's OnlyHorse

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mazda_fanboy@reddit

Imagine the feet pics😳

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Remy-the-Rancher@reddit

Horseshoe (read as horse's hoe)

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ghostwh0walks@reddit

Horsing Around

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Remy-the-Rancher@reddit

Horny Unicorn

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4BDUL4Z1Z@reddit

Horse's Toe

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Hsinats@reddit

i read it like whore-shoe

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Remy-the-Rancher@reddit

~~Whores Hoe~~

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Valkerian@reddit

Hoof Hearted?

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TTYY_20@reddit

When I take my shoes offf And it’s just a devolved horse foot

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RuneLFox@reddit

I think having hooves would be great, tbh.

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pastasauce@reddit

That gives me a great idea for a website! It's like wikiFeet, but for horses

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alvinbaena@reddit

Hoof 🥵

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ch-12@reddit

Are baby horse feet allowed? because… yikes

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brusslipy@reddit

Shame it doesn't allow elephants feet, served as x-ray preferably.

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Uberspank@reddit

The exotic cameltoes

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thetimujin@reddit

Are bronies with foot fetish into hooves

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muhyb@reddit

"Send me your bare hoof"

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IrregularRedditor@reddit

There are better names * StableMates * Bit ‘n Bridal * Mare Match * Neighbr

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SavvySillybug@reddit

These read like My Little Pony fanfic things.

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RespectableLurker555@reddit

Not that I would know

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Yoconn@reddit

Neehhhh

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mizzourifan1@reddit

I only ride horses from Fenton's Horse Ranch, where the horses are hung like me!

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No_Bank@reddit

OnlyHooves

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Johnnybravo60025@reddit

PonyFans?

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AnthonyK0@reddit

Calli?

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Don_Pacifico@reddit

Are you a horse?

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TurntTablist@reddit

If I say yes, will you feed me ketamine?

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Don_Pacifico@reddit

Only the finest ket for my little pony.

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not-my-best-wank@reddit

I don't think so, but everyone keeps wanting to go for a ride, so maybe?

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Foreplay241@reddit

Sure, I'll take a ride if you're offering.

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aquartabla@reddit

Not until after the first *stable* release.

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Pfheonix@reddit

It's for presenting Gallop Polls.

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exemplariasuntomni@reddit

It is horses only. I think we could make an exception for you.

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gdmzhlzhiv@reddit

It's like Tinder but when they say they're hung like a horse, they're not kidding.

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Kira-31415@reddit

https://xkcd.com/624/

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grimonce@reddit

This is not such a bad idea, horses are bred and mixed for money, like dogs... Maybe there's some cash for grabbing here

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MurkyContext201@reddit

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/sporting-country-pursuits/tinder-for-horses-new-global-stallions-app-launched-147585

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damniticant@reddit

I knew this had to exist

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UglyShithead5@reddit

https://www.adulthorsefinder.com already exists

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LUV_2_BEAT_MY_MEAT@reddit

Bridle Showr

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HateYouKillYou@reddit

So Tinder in Britain?

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beasy4sheezy@reddit

Roasted

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OsintOtter69@reddit

Tinder for horses would be a money maker man.

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OrSomeSuch@reddit

But horse hooves can't swipe?

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left_schwift@reddit

But my fingers can ;)

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10lbCheeseBurger@reddit

Horse people got money to burn. I'd be down.

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Anders_142536@reddit

Ride or slide

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EuroPolice@reddit

Actually a good idea, you take a pic of your stallions and people can rent them to make mini animals with their desired specs. I want 15% of your company.

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lacb1@reddit

I mean.... I'm not not interested.

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Tsu_Dho_Namh@reddit

Pretty sure that exists already.

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Xadith@reddit

Open AI: "hold my beer"

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susjsjaixhxhdj@reddit

my guy on what planet is the client choosing the programming language?

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AChristianAnarchist@reddit

On planets where your project isn't the only thing on that server.

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susjsjaixhxhdj@reddit

something tells me Stacha’s friend doesn’t have an AWS account

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CanAlwaysBeBetter@reddit

Now I'm sad remembering AWS already hasn't been keeping lambda runtimes up to date so I can't even pick my own language for backened and they just cut even more developers

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Lakiw@reddit

Plenty of contracts where the client gets the source code for maintenance after the project is complete. These types of projects, the client almost certainly demand a certain language.

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MySpaceEmoCat@reddit

This one, unfortunately

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-RedditFuckingSucks-@reddit

Isn't that up to the person with the technical expertise to decide?

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MySpaceEmoCat@reddit

Assuming your client does not have an ecosystem they want you to build that software for, or a team that you've been outsourced to work with

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VitaminnCPP@reddit (OP)

What's your budget? 10% equity in my billion dollar app

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Mateusz3010@reddit

I'm really interested in thought process of those who think that giving a vague one-line idea is worth 90% of the final product.

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ka-knife@reddit

Honestly, if they are also providing initial funding, in charge of marketing, legal, and other administration; then I might be tempted. Assuming they already have a solid business plan with supporting market research.

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Mateusz3010@reddit

Yeah but in most cases it's "I want you to make app" "What app" "Tinder for horses" "Any specifics?" "You're the programmer you should know" end of conversation.

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jsalsman@reddit

Don't worry, they'll revise the spec plenty of times, especially after examining particularly difficult implementations of their previous instructins.

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WorkFromHomeOffice@reddit

You will get payed in "exposure"

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treycartier91@reddit

You're getting Lorem Ipsum. Because I love when clients get upset and say I did everything in Latin.

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Moonkai2k@reddit

I got a very angry email a while back because a sample layout I did for a client had lorem ipsum placeholder text in several elements. The guy freaked out because we were developing the site in "spanish"...

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qwqwqw@reddit

I mean. There are a bunch of people with legitimate needs for an app who wouldn't be able to answer "how big is it" or "what do you want me to code in?" If your MO as a developer is to ask (barely) technically questions and expect straightforward answers, then that's cool. But you'll be missing out on clients. When I did landscaping I would ask "what sort of hedge do you want?" And people would legit answer "oh - like... Trees?" - it was a good indicator of the follow up questions i needed to ask - but I wouldn't fault them for not knowing about plants. That's my speciality.

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MySpaceEmoCat@reddit

Yes of course. I feel though stories like these are usually told to make fun of the kind of people who learn a buzzword and go around thinking theyve got everything figured out (cue any of Musk's tweets)

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10art1@reddit

I prefer German. \*\*IT IS VERY STRICTLY TYPED\*\*

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yxcv42@reddit

Reminds me of my aunt asking me to port some proprietary Windows-only app to her new MacOS....she literally looked shocked when I told her that's not something I'll do on my weekend and she should contact the company that supplies her with the software asking for a Mac version. Turns out she did that previously and got told that they do not support MacOS....that's why she asked me to "install" it for her anyways.

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markdhughes@reddit

"Sure. Sketch out every screen and what actions to take on it." You will never hear from them again. Probably. When you get a 500-page design document written by an incoherent non-programmer, you'll have another problem.

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_REXXER_@reddit

and then you feed it to our Lord and Saviour ChatGPT -> Profit

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notKRIEEEG@reddit

But maybe also a job. If they went through that trouble they might be serious about it

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Shadow9378@reddit

"an app" range: 'an app that plays a sound when you press a button' to 'i need an ai optimized custom built search engine by tomorrow'

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Exce55um@reddit

Dos really programmers ask for the size at the go like this? Is not a better question what it supposes to do? Or on what platform. Either way as a professional in any field treat every potential client as they are like lobotomizes gerbils in your mind, assume they don’t know the most basic ting so long you don’t know the person; it is often the reason why they go to you instead solve the request them self. Create far less confusion and save some headache down the line.

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bluebluegreen5@reddit

Time to ask my mech eng friends to build me a ferrari.

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kodder@reddit

Reminds me of one time i got request to work and improve a website. I asked " in which language?" , I got "english" as a reply

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Healthy-Upstairs-286@reddit

The answer to this is always “no”.

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furbz1@reddit

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me to *just make an app (or game)*, I‘d have the money to finance an hour of development.

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Kurious_Guy18@reddit

oonga bunga moment...

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HelpfulPuppydog@reddit

I get paid by the inch.

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FrankHightower@reddit

"No I mean how complex?" "Oh, it's just one button" "What does it do?" "It takes a picture which--" "I'm out"

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Horrific_Necktie@reddit

"Wait, no! It's easy. I just want it to tell me if the picture is if a cat or not"

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sparant76@reddit

https://imageio.forbes.com/blogs-images/ianmorris/files/2017/05/Untitled-1-1200x1064.png?format=png&width=1200

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GrumbusWumbus@reddit

We did this for a computer vision class in university. My buddy who was actually a programmer did 99% of the work and got it to have like a 70% success rate. My basically programming illiterate brain helped a bit with the PowerPoint.

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Classic_Fungus@reddit

just use rand(left, rignt) and u'll get at least 50% correctness

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DrakeFrost@reddit

Uncaught ReferenceError: rignt is not defined

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FlyingQuokka@reddit

Yeah if the problem is literally a Boolean, a simple convolutional net will do it, given good data.

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izybit@reddit

These days that's extremely easy. There's also a Reddit ad that does the classic xkcd which recognizes if it's a bird or not. The whole prototype takes literally a couple of minutes.

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NotSpartacus@reddit

Not a hot dog?

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Nephty23@reddit

it's a yes/no, easy idea right

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birthdaycakefig@reddit

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks

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jmcampout@reddit

Imma head out

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bobert_the_grey@reddit

![gif](giphy|L3bj6t3opdeNddYCyl)

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Pain_Monster@reddit

“What kind of app?” “That’s the first step in developing an app!”

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gdmzhlzhiv@reddit

That's a good thing to tattoo on your forehead, honestly. Either that or, "If you can read this, you're my optometrist."

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Inflnite_Automata@reddit

I mean to be fair “how big is it” is a really vague question

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jonny_wonny@reddit

6 inches

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NGGJamie@reddit

At least 3.

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Genids@reddit

That's gonna cost extra for going way oversized

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RandyHoward@reddit

Agree, I would look at another developer funny if they said that to me. A more appropriate response is, "What does it need to do?"

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-RedditFuckingSucks-@reddit

Yeah it's really weirdly phrased

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The_catakist@reddit

That's what she said

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posherspantspants@reddit

The answer to this question (can you make it) is always "no" without any further explanation

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Zombiak307@reddit

You reply no because you don't want to make it. I reply no because I don't know how to make it. We are not the same

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Poincare_Confection@reddit

It's not that hard. Once you agree to make the app, you just text your friend Dmitry and say that your friend needs an app.

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NGGJamie@reddit

And Dmitry will hack something together with code from ChatGPT

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CanAlwaysBeBetter@reddit

Congrats on inventing government contracting

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posherspantspants@reddit

We're at least similar. I dont know how but I also don't want to

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macness234@reddit

Good. We are finally evolving

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Vegetable_Maize_6166@reddit

Based

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Ganon2012@reddit

\*DO NOT DEVELOP MY APP\*

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chili_ladder@reddit

I can make it, the average app takes 2 years to build my salary is 250k a year, but I'll give you a deal and take 60% of the app and only 1 year of salary. No one ever comes back asking for another app to be made :(

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CaitaXD@reddit

Shure send me the specs, and I'll get back to you with the price and estimated time to develop.

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jpritchard@reddit

If I had the time and energy to put into make an app I would make my ideas, not yours.

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ForgotTheBogusName@reddit

Exactly the first thought. Or, send me the documentation you’ve written describing it. If it’s not worth their effort and a possible rejection, then it’s not worth mine.

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Live-Astronaut989@reddit

This. Also include your hourly rate. You never know, one day someone might actually be willing to hire you and not be a beggar

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Inside-Example-7010@reddit

Why cant I get rich with my idea/skills/capital? I represent a small fraction of what is necessary to create a new business venture. Whether that be the idea, the necessary skill-set to realise the product/service, or access to the required investment to begin making it a reality. Thinktank solves this problem by bringing all of these people together in the first of its kind social media app targeted for new ventures. Thinktank is a networking platform that brings people together. It does not handle money or accept associated responsibilities. Thinktank could be an app that benefits the creator of intellectual property by being an encrypted source of evidence when it comes to the conception of intellectual property and the dates and chat logs regarding it. Thinktank creates value out of nothing but ideas. It is not like Uber or a food delivery service where both the driver must be rented by the app and the client found by the app. Instead Thinktank takes people who have something with no current real value (the driver who we dont have to pay) and connects them with someone who together they can realise true value. To my awareness there have currently been two major fundraising websites/apps created which have both excelled. One is called gofundme which is a platform people can request donations from anyone on the internet for a variety of reasons however this is 99% used as a charitable foundation for individuals who have suffered heavily in the public eye. The other platform is kickstarter which is a website people can invest into game developers to finance a game that is in the earliest stages of development. It is my opinion that both of these enterprises have only seen a small fraction of an angle of this market and an app that sells the reality of connection to financial liberty would be extremely popular for a variety of people. People with no network can gain access to one and investors get to exploit fresh brains for money. Everybody on the platform wins and that's what brings its users.

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kilokokol@reddit

"Hello electrician. My friend needs electricity. Can you wire it?" "Hello lawyer. My friend needs legal counsel. Can you win his case?" "Hello accountant. My friend needs a tax break. Can you hide his assets?" "Hello carpenter. My friend needs a project. Can you build it?" You see how stupid this looks with any other profession?

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Draken010@reddit

"You need to go to a dev that makes smaller apps"

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Exallium@reddit

"Sure. My day rate is $1000 and the app will take a bare minimum of one month and increase from there depending on complexity and maintenance requirements."

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Varpie@reddit

I mean... That's realistic consultant costs, and you can't do much in less than a month. People don't realize how expensive software can be in the industry.

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apathy-sofa@reddit

A rich acquaintance took me out to lunch to advise him on an app idea he had. Basically he wanted to take on the #2 website in the world, though he didn't put it in those terms. I walked him through the size and composition of the sort of organization required to prototype it, a super rough time investment, and then the salary norms for the roles. His reaction to the large sum: "What about just getting some college students?" That wasn't the first time I realized how simultaneously dumb and exploitive rich poorly can be, but it's maybe the most memorable.

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geofox777@reddit

Hey, at least it’s not as crazy as if he wanted to take on the #1 website in the world

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TheGABB@reddit

That’s actually pretty cheap if you were to ask a consultant to do this.

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HateYouKillYou@reddit

Hey I bought you lunch that one time

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UngratefulGarbage@reddit

![gif](giphy|L3bj6t3opdeNddYCyl)

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RobinsonDickinson@reddit

What a vague question. You asking about her penis size?

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cybermage@reddit

It’s wafer thin.

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creepjax@reddit

Tbf “how big is it” is a pretty vague questions to someone that doesn’t know app development.

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rem26_art@reddit

"programmers charge by the number of pixels, right?"

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Saivia@reddit

I'll tell you what: I charge you one single grain of rice for the first pixel, two grains for the second, four for the third, eight for the fourth, and so on and so on.

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rem26_art@reddit

now THAT'S how you make money! (or rice)

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grandBBQninja@reddit

Charge by pixel and make the site infinite.

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DownvoteEvangelist@reddit

I'm fine with normal iphone screen app and only a dolar per pixel rate...

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dcgog@reddit

Get rich with this one simple trick ☝️

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DmMacniel@reddit

Thats why there are soo many infinite scroll websites out there.

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exemplariasuntomni@reddit

Actually, they were charging by the page and had cheap clients.

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L8n1ght@reddit

more like Pixel density * screen space

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opum123@reddit

Yes, that will be 20K or 0.01 per pixel.

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GuiGeeKang@reddit

Why would anyone charge by any number that isn't time? Even thee trucking industry is pushing back against the whole "by time" pay.

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lucidludic@reddit

To make a [million dollars](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage) and pay for university.

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telecaster95@reddit

Cuz you can drag out a job to take longer than needed

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GuiGeeKang@reddit

That is the benefit.

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AzoresBall@reddit

Besause it is a joke

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honkatoke@reddit

All 8 bit images are 8k resolution. Any images less than 4k are not compatible with the site as is But yes I charge per pixel. Because yes a website is similar to a tile foor

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siralmasy@reddit

Laughed way too much to this

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-brownchicken-@reddit

I have encountered a few of these instances, my question is what exactly should the equity division look like? Say for a moderately complex webapp that talks to a db, have dedicated apis for public use, consists of 10-15 pages or more etc?

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tyler1128@reddit

It's almost always "work for me for free, but once we all get rich, you can have x% of the profit". It also usually never makes a profit.

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Megasteel32@reddit

it never gets off the ground in the first place. I refuse to believe an actual app has ever been developed from a conversation like this.

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Naitra@reddit

If their idea had merit, they could've easily gotten a VC throwing money at them to build it. Considering kind of shit tier companies VCs have funded so far, the idea has to be true garbage to not even get couple of hundred k thrown at it.

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Poincare_Confection@reddit

Easily? Seems to me that nearly all the software companies that succeeded in the past two decades were started by people who can program, which this texter clearly can't. Only exception that comes to mind is League of Legends, but I believe that even they could program a bit.

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MetaCommando@reddit

Some of them were the programmers for OG Dota. It was a nasty breakup to say the least.

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IndianaJoenz@reddit

Well... Sure, maybe, if they are in that world. The average person has no idea how to get VC investment.

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Megasteel32@reddit

and thank god for that

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unconventional_gamer@reddit

Does Facebook count?

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Beautiful-Lobster943@reddit

Up to $4/hour you bet

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furmanman@reddit

Is it just me or was the question weird in the first place? What does the person mean by “how big is it?”

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jordanbtucker@reddit

Asking about size is a dumb question. Just ask what the purpose of the app would be and judge for yourself.

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kirjavva@reddit

"It's a simple app with buttons."

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Ditto_B@reddit

"Okay, I'll need $1000 per button"

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redballooon@reddit

Sounds like a good deal to me

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notKRIEEEG@reddit

Fair enough! I'll get you the meanest spreadsheet ever!

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AlexanderDaychilde@reddit

That's already a better answer than you'd get with "How big is it". Obviously, the followup is "What should the app *do*", which is what should have been the question in the first place. Of course, my answer to the initial question (as many others) would have been "no". End of conversation. lol

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ydoiwantreddit@reddit

What should the app do? It's an app, you know? It does app things!

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gophergun@reddit

I'm not even really clear on the correct response to that question. Would it be in lines of code? Megabytes?

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gonzo0815@reddit

Meters

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Eiim@reddit

Liters

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gonzo0815@reddit

Yeah. As funny as the answer is, what do you expect a person who doesn't know anything about programming to respond?

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devilishloki@reddit

Yeah what kind of question is that? It’s just weird 😂

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sweetcuppingcakes@reddit

Which is why it’s fake

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NorskSkrei@reddit

15MB. I mean, who is the joke here? Wtf kind of question is "how big is it?" for an app? How "big" it is depends on how shitty code you write. How complex it is depends on the requested features and specs.

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weters@reddit

Reminds me of a joke. Kid walks into a lumber store and asks for a 2x4. The worker asks “how long do you need it?” Kid responds “we need it for a long time, we’re building a garage.”

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oneonethousandone@reddit

Lol that's good shit

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grimonce@reddit

Why didn't he ask chat gpt, I heard it's pretty good at coding :v

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johnlewisdesign@reddit

Plagiarised from a poor screenshot from 15 yrs ago that I still see most days . Golf clap.

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JustARandomWoof@reddit

I don't get the joke :(

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burnblue@reddit

Well "how big is it" is where this turned dumb, innit How were they supposed to answer that?

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mikedensem@reddit

I once had a client ask if I could build their website in black & white to make it cheaper!

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nothing_bizarre_here@reddit

my apps are always 9 inchs by 7 inchs

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ChaliceForOne@reddit

Same level of detail I get for a spec at work!

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Affectionate_Mix_302@reddit

That will save so much money rather than splurging for a tablet size app

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finalaccountforreal@reddit

Not the mobile phone, silly! How big is your friend?

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Noisycarlos@reddit

I thought he was going to answer 200lbs or something

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ChefGuapo@reddit

So many idiots in this world

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Big_Job_1491@reddit

I weigh my code in ounces

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dllimport@reddit

I mean I figure you already know this but he probably just means how big is the project not how physically large do you want the app?

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PixelatedPanda1@reddit

>Yeah! Phone sized phone apps are actually my specialty!

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Sak_casualSoftie@reddit

Nightmare fuel

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disappointed_moose@reddit

I kid you not, 15 years ago during my first job I had a client complain that we ripped him off because his friend also had a website made by us and the compared the invoices and found out that they both paid the same amount, but the website o f his friend was 2cm wider than his, and clearly he should pay less than his friend because he got less website

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Moose_Human@reddit

“I have a labrador.”

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MaybeACoder007@reddit

I actually had someone want me to code a game they liked from the early 00s for them as a mobile app. They said they would pay me $3 per level I coded or them and they said they “knew they were overpaying me” Like WTF.

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m1rrari@reddit

That’s too small. I don’t have the manual dexterity needed for making things like that. Now… a widescreen monitor app

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MT_Flesch@reddit

1080x2460 is kinda smallish i guess

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newontheblock99@reddit

Get all the information and send back an app that opens to a white screen that says “scaled to fit normal mobile phone screen” and does nothing else. This is my ignorant ass not knowing how much effort that would take.

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alex_dlc@reddit

How would you answer that though?

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omninode@reddit

To be fair, I have idea what “how big is it” means.

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GitHub-@reddit

No I mean how big is the paycheck

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hoopbag33@reddit

Well thats a dumb fucking question to a non developer. What did you think they were going to say?

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gonzo0815@reddit

It's like asking a mechanic to repair your car and his response is: "How long will it take?" Well how am I supposed to know? You are the mechanic.

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IGotSkills@reddit

I'm sure gathering requirements will go great

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Manic_Marketer@reddit

Lemme guess, they want you to do it for exposure and equity.

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dzakadzak@reddit

effort measured by sigh's

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Soft-Intern-7608@reddit

This sounds like it'll be a great client and very easy to work with /s

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CW_Waster@reddit

Asking "how big?" is the same level of stupidity. What even were you expecting as an answer? Filesize in megabytes?

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Darkness_Overcoming@reddit

If Leslie Nielsen was alive today and don't call me surly.

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literallymetaphoric@reddit

I don't know what kind of answer you expected a tech illiterate person to give when asked "How big is it?"

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danofrhs@reddit

Lel

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dashrendar2112@reddit

Requirements. Check.

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cipherSoreEyes@reddit

Not too big, not too small, something medium sized to fit in nicely with the others.

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mrbubbles916@reddit

What kind of question is "how big is it" though? Wouldn't you want to ask "what is it" instead?

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iloveuranus@reddit

I charge by the pixel.

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Sartheris@reddit

Long ago I gave up trying to come up with an original comment. At this point I am convinced we all share the same one brain cell.

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AlexanderDaychilde@reddit

And yet, even that comment is unique: https://imgur.com/a/lfDjscY Google hasn't indexed this thread yet, but it'll probably pop up in an hour or two as the sole result if you put that all in quotes. :)

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NGVHACKER@reddit

dont call yourself unoriginal if you actually came up with that line and then saw others using it.

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AlgorithmicPost@reddit

💀mf described a infinite amount of possibilities

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aar2you@reddit

You even bothered to recreate this stolen meme!

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sweetcuppingcakes@reddit

I thought it was odd the first question wasn’t “what kind of app?” Asking about the size is bizarre

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Furyful_Fawful@reddit

I interpreted it as asking size of scope, like how involved is it but regardless, a bad way to phrase the question

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Negative-Manner-6978@reddit

i lol'd

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Matrixneo42@reddit

Be very literal about the design of the app then. No side screens. No Scrolling. No hidden things becoming visible or invisible again.

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MKEYFORREAL@reddit

Every pixel 1 dollar

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Aegonblackfyre22@reddit

This is why we still need programmers. Imagine this would be what it’s like how end users talk to ChatGPT.

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MANITOBA_MOM_69@reddit

Tip Calculator - IN IMAX 3D.

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sweetcuppingcakes@reddit

I don’t understand how so many smart, analytical people think this could be real. If it was, asking “how big is it?” as the first question would be even more ridiculous than the answer

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beclops@reddit

Isn’t this just a verbatim copy of that website meme that gets posted here a million times a month except for mobile?

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jpritchard@reddit

"Oh you do computer stuff? I have this idea for an app..." "no."

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SenatorCrabHat@reddit

\*cries in mobile web dev\*

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earthspaceman@reddit

Can multiple users have access to it at the same time?

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Arnas_Z@reddit

Is that the liquid damage theme?

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SymmetricStrangelet@reddit

r/technicallythetruth

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JR2502@reddit

Yep. Larger screen = more code. =D

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SomethingIWontRegret@reddit

Guy at Home depot: I need some 4 by 2s Home Depot employee: Sure thing. How long? Guy: Let me check with my boss... He says a long time - we're building a house.

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KilgoreTroutPfc@reddit

Change your phone number.

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EsMuyBuenoSi@reddit

Such a strange post.

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extrachromes@reddit

to make it normal phone screen sized that would require an additional 1k anything else ?

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Laicure@reddit

well, r/technicallythetruth

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Derekthemindsculptor@reddit

Reminds me when my aunt told me she was paying some guy to develop an app for her. I asked her what language. English

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ShadowShedinja@reddit

r/technicallythetruth

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-Redstoneboi-@reddit

"Hi <friend>. My labor needs money. Can you pay it?"

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Exallium@reddit

"Sure. My day rate is $1000 and the app will take a bare minimum of one month and increase from there depending on complexity and maintenance requirements."

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