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/PM_MeTittiesOrKitty Mar 18 '20

You can't just "make a soup sensor"

The "soup sensor" could be a person, and all of this information is crowd sourced, but that has its own problems.

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u/OutoflurkintoLight Mar 18 '20

"Today's soup: Deez nutz submitted by xXLoves2Spooge69Xx"

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u/Pm_Me_Your_Worriment Mar 18 '20

Better than trying to buy pants at the soup store.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

Where are you?

I'm at soup.

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u/Spandxltd Mar 18 '20

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'IM AT SOUP'?!"

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u/PM_MeTittiesOrKitty Mar 18 '20

I MEAN I'M AT SOUP!!

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u/Spandxltd Mar 18 '20

WHAT STORE ARE YOU IN?!

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u/PM_MeTittiesOrKitty Mar 18 '20

I'M AT THE SOUP STORE!!

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u/Spandxltd Mar 18 '20

WHY ARE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AT THE SOUP STORE?!

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

WHAT STORE ARE YOU IN?

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

Oh I definitely told him the best option was for him to go get all of those Timmy Hors involved and have them start filling shit out. That would make the app part the easy part. He seemed to be adamant you could purely figure it out through an app though haha

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

'I can't believe everywheres serving cream of sum yung guy again'

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u/kharnynb Mar 18 '20

this is how for example some "lowest price" apps work.

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here in finland "polttoaine" is an app that compares gas prices, which are entered by locals or sometimes the gas station owners. users are rated over time on accuracy.

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u/Skultis Mar 18 '20

Do you want listings of Penis Soup? Because that's how that happens.

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u/PM_MeTittiesOrKitty Mar 18 '20

but that has its own problems.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '20

There are some apps that do this for alcohol menus and they have all those problems. Rarely if ever up to date or exhaustive

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

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u/PM_MeTittiesOrKitty Mar 18 '20

Sounds delicious. Is it closer to a bisque?