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I was tossing around iPhone app ideas with some non-techie friends a while back. Everyone had a hyper-specific need for an app, but then I mentioned the Daily
by imack 17y ago
I was tossing around iPhone app ideas with some non-techie friends a while back. Everyone had a hyper-specific need for an app, but then I mentioned the Daily Show bit about the fart apps that was on a while ago and it seemed to have the most traction amoung the diverse group. I guess it comes down to people being willing to pay a buck for a cheap laugh, thus, there is a market.
I have this hypothesis that there might be a market for apps that cater to a more female market. Most developers being guys, I figure anything a male would be interested in has been created, whereas female-oriented apps might still have a market. Anyway, just a thought.
- srn 17y agoFemale oriented apps with what, pink unicorns and fluffy bunnies? That's a pretty silly statement no matter how you take it. Remember the myth (or the myth of the myth) about nobody needing more than 640K of ram? There will always be opportunities for novel applications, more user friendly applications, applications which take advantage of new technologies, etc. However if you do market research or usability testing, dependent on the use case please do with both genders and perhaps different ages - for example, soft thumbboards may be perfectly fine for someone with one size hands to use and ridiculously hard to use with another. That's an obvious example, and there are other things not so obvious that may come out from that.