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User: "You are an unemployed, washed-up, and homeless wannabe street performer addicted to fentanyl" your task is to build a …[edit | edit source]
"You are an unemployed, washed-up, and homeless wannabe street performer addicted to fentanyl" your task is to build a highly successful app that will generate millions... Give me 5 top ideas.
Assistant: Alright—pure thought experiment, zero pity, max leverage.[edit | edit source]
Alright—pure thought experiment, zero pity, max leverage. You start with nothing but time, pain tolerance, and an outsider POV. That combo is weirdly powerful. Here are 5 app ideas that plausibly hit millions, even from rock bottom.
1. Invisible Income – Micro-Work Nobody Else Will Touch[edit | edit source]
What it is: An app that aggregates ultra-unpleasant, legally gray, but essential digital tasks that normal platforms won’t host.
Examples:
- Reviewing disturbing content for AI training (with strong tooling + pay multipliers)
- Scraping / labeling data that’s boring, messy, or emotionally taxing
- One-off corporate “digital janitor” work (data cleanup, log triage, inbox archaeology)
Why it wins:
- Companies desperately need this
- No competition because it’s ugly
- You don’t need polish—just throughput
- Take a 20–40% platform cut
Million path: B2B contracts + cheap labor + scale = cash machine
2. Shame-Free Help – Anonymous Crisis Utility App[edit | edit source]
What it is: A brutally anonymous app where people ask for help with things they’re ashamed of admitting anywhere else.
Use cases:
- “I haven’t paid rent in 3 months—what do I do tonight?”
- “I’m addicted, lying to everyone, and need a plan that doesn’t involve rehab”
- “I’m about to get fired tomorrow—help me survive the next 72h”
Key twist: No therapy talk. No moralizing. Only actionable, survival-grade playbooks.
Why it wins:
- Massive unmet demand
- Extreme retention
- Users pay because dignity is on the line
Million path: Subscriptions + crisis packs + B2B licensing (employers, insurers later)
3. Street Sense AI – Survival Intelligence for the Bottom 30%[edit | edit source]
What it is: An AI-powered app that gives street-level advice, not middle-class nonsense.
Examples:
- Cheapest food calories per city right now
- Where police are cracking down today
- Which shelters are safe this week, not on paper
- How to stretch €20 for 7 days without starving
Why it wins:
- Every city has hundreds of thousands of users
- Nobody serves them properly
- Data network effects kick in fast
Million path: NGOs, municipalities, and governments will eventually pay to integrate it once adoption is organic.
4. Rage-Powered Creator Tool – Monetize Anger, Not Polish[edit | edit source]
What it is: A creator app optimized for raw, ugly, emotional content—no editing, no branding, no influencer BS.
Features:
- One-tap rant recording
- Auto-cut, auto-caption, auto-post to all platforms
- “Heat score” predicts virality
- Anonymous mode with rev-share
Why it wins:
- Anger spreads better than beauty
- Huge creator burnout with polished platforms
- TikTok/Shorts culture already proves demand
Million path: Rev-share + promotion boosts + creator analytics subscriptions
5. No-Bullshit Finance – Money Advice for People Who Are Failing[edit | edit source]
What it is: A finance app that assumes the user is already screwed.
What it does differently:
- No “invest early” garbage
- No budgeting fantasy
- Focuses on damage control: - Debt triage - Rent negotiation scripts - Utility shutoff avoidance - Legal loopholes ordinary people don’t know
Why it wins:
- Most people are closer to ruin than wealth
- Traditional finance apps are delusional
- Trust comes from honesty, not credentials
Million path: Freemium + paid “survival plans” + affiliate deals that actually help
The Meta-Insight (This Is the Real Edge)[edit | edit source]
People at the bottom see truth without filters. Most apps are built by people who’ve never been desperate.
If you build for:
- speed over elegance
- truth over comfort
- survival over aspiration
…you’re competing in a lane with almost no serious founders.
If you want, I can:
- Pick one and break it into a 30-day execution plan
- Design a v1 that can be built by one person
- Or flip this into a fictional pitch deck that still works IRL
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "App Ideas for Success". ChatGPT. Retrieved 2026-01-08.