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IMHO you should not be marketing a product to software developers. That market is completely saturated and most of the tools are free.

Today's super-simple big market idea: We got my elderly mother a flip phone and it's too hard to use. I'm going to describe what would be ideal for her now, and by all means DON'T think up additional features to "make it better". She needs a phone that when opened/activated it give a list of people (contacts) which she can scroll through and pick one to call. It should call directly, not change screen or show some other shit. Just call the highlighted name and call. Maybe it could switch to a "calling" screen with just the one name until the call is over. That's it. No other functionality so she can "get lost" or confused.

Maybe this is an android app? I'm not sure if you can override the main UI to the extent this wants to be. I'll gladly get her a cheap Android phone and pay $5 for an app that turns it into this usable device for elderly people. Yes, five dollars. No adds, no user monetization, no enshitification.

Can anyone deliver this? I think there's a large market for it and it should be a one weekend job.

BTW, however you load/add contacts should be a sort of hard to find function maybe for someone else to do. Not something you can accidently "get into".

There are a million things like this just waiting for someone to create. But talking to developers for ideas is a dead end.



>> I think there's a large market for it and it should be a one weekend job.

You're essentially asking for a heavily customized phone OS, this is not like adding a bootstrap theme - and you're willing to pay FIVE DOLLARS?

>> But talking to developers for ideas is a dead end.

Maybe for product ideas but perhaps you should find one to critique your "weekend project" idea


>> You're essentially asking for a heavily customized phone OS

No. I'm asking for a "dialer only" phone OS. It can take the form of an always-on-top dialer app over a standard OS. That's it.




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