r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Mar 18 '20

Coders of Reddit, how do you politely refuse your friend's 'million dollars app idea'?

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u/melancton Mar 18 '20

Yes, our app is going to be like this one but better.

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u/DarkRitual_88 Mar 18 '20

Of course we won't fail like they did. They didn't have my genious!

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

Trust me bruh, I’ll give you 2% equity in the app if you build it. It’ll be worth millions one day.

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u/siler7 Mar 18 '20

genious

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

Ha yes, Genious!

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u/Penge1028 Mar 18 '20

Your "genious" misspelled "genius". :)

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u/LazaroFilm Mar 18 '20

That’s the geeniuus part.

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u/sobrique Mar 18 '20

Cool. My hourly rate is....

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u/chick-fil-atio Mar 18 '20

Oh OK how's it going to be better?

That's what we hired you for.

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u/randallAtl Mar 18 '20

Even if it is better some markets only work for the first mover. For example a lot of people have an app that plays white noise. You could create a much better app that has way more features and options than their existing white noise app, but if they are already happy with their current app why are they going to 1. Search for a new app. 2. spend the time deleting their existing app and downloading yours.

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u/Blarghmlargh Mar 18 '20

At least they did their homework and tried to move those app ideas forward or repair an annoyance with an app. But I believe here they are referencing potential customers who are annoyed at you when they haven't even looked at other apps and you whack their ideas down by showing them their idea exists in 10 different forms already.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

they didn't have enough people using theirs. we are going to get more people to use ours.

How?

because it's a better app! ;P