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Nice try, open source developers who want to make the world a better place.

A program that continuously poisons all corporate AI data sets.

I would like an app to summon the vultures when there is a dead animal in my yard. Click for vultures.

Nurse here. The software we chart with (that I've used at least - plenty out there I haven't touched) ranges from meh to absolute shit. Some of the features on my wishlist would be elimination of redundant charting (like, if put the date down in one section, don't fuckin ask in 3 others!), a way to save templates without patient-specific data, so when I do the same procedure on 5 different people, I can just click the template and fill in any holes instead of starting from scratch each time. Some actual standardization so different programs can actually talk to eachother. Like, ER, scheduling, preop, surgery, anesthesia, recovery, med surg, and sterile processing are all departments that might be involved in a single patient visit (checked into ER, sent for emergency surgery, then kept overnight for observation before discharge)... there'll be some overlap, but scheduling, anesthesia, and sterile processing are usually each rocking their own unique software. The others are usually decently linked up nowadays, but still with the odd exception... like trying to get surgical updates from ICU so you know when to have a bed ready; but the chart is just dead and now a PACU nurse is calling report cuz the surgery finished 40 fuckin minutes ago, all because some some jackass in the ER left the patient's chart open which locked everyone else out of signing their notes. Surprise!

...most of the issues with our charting software boils down to dumb shit like that - proprietary systems that are incapable of communicating, or just good ol' fashioned garbage design. And it'll stay that way, cuz oligopoly.

An immortal worm that drains wealth from billionaires, launders it, and redistributes it as some kind of deus ex machina bonus to everyone else or to charities.

Something (app whatever) that divines the "evil" in all the things I need to buy, for me, without me having to do research on who has sold out, who is supporting killing babies, who is killing the rainforests, who is using child slave labour to extract their products etc etc. It's fucking exhausting and monotonous, you can't just check once, you gotta click refresh every bloody day. It's doing my head in. I just want to buy stuff that I can eat etc, that isn't tainted in others blood. Fuck this timeline, I can't wait till it corrects itself, shit gunna be glorious. I'll be there with some ethically sourced popcorn and a Molotov.

Masturbator/Dildo software that integrates with an EEG to scan your brain, know when you're about to cum, and then edge you over and over again.

A phone app that automatically accepts calls from suspected scam numbers, robocalls and unknown numbers and immediately mutes the mic, keeping the call going until the machine on the other side of the line disconnects and marks my number as non-working.

This has been how I've gone down from multiple spam calls a week to just a few a year. I'd really like to automate that.

An easy one I would do myself if I had more time. A calorie tracker that does not try to get you into a cult.

• The only time it accesses the internet is to update its on-board database.
• None of your data gets sent anywhere unless you choose to share it (for things like new foods).
• No suggestions.
• No exercise programs or tracking
• No sleep tracking.
• Tracks only what you want. Extras available through add-ons or something, but I don't care about tracking nutrients, fat, carbs, etc. so keep them out of my way.
• In short, follow the Unix guideline of an app doing one thing and doing it well.

A multimedia centre like Kodi or Jellyfin with the ability to schedule shows like it was a regular TV channel. With shows playing on their time slots, a random movie starting every day at ten.

There are times that I just want to turn on the TV and watch whatever is on without having to scroll through the entire library for something I could be in the mood for.

Okay so you know how Ad Naseum is a thing? It's like uBlock but it clicks on ads to fuck with advertisers?

I wish we had something like that for youtuber sponsors built on top of SponsorBlock. Like imagine it finds the affiliate link, signs up for this shit using a burner email, and then the bot doing this deletes itself.

It makes the youtuber look bad, it makes the brand look bad, and you feel like a gigachad for doing it.

Is it possible? Maybe, but realistically I believe this is a form of fraud, so I imagine no one would do this, BUT I WISH IT DID EXIST!

An actual, healthy, good online social ecosystem. A place with deep quality conversation without bots, trolls, rage bait, misinformation, etc. Somewhere that felt like actual community.

A peer-to-peer prediction market where instead of betting on forest fires, we bet on datacenter fires and mansion fires.

Something that would remove clickbait articles, AI slop, propaganda, commercials and probably more that are poisoning our lives.

An open source, cross platform self paced learning app which gives you quizzes, text documents to read in a similar format to Wikipedia pages or Kinnu info slides, automatically revolving cards of text to glance at, a resizable and responsive UI that allows you to put it anywhere and still be useful, and an assistant to clarify information, chat with, and assist in creating documents to run in the app by using documents you feed it, which can be things like course work for uni or school, or informal self interests.

I have in fact wrote an app in python last year for a programming class that does the responsive UX design, the revolving text, and has a fair amount of settings (such as dark/light mode switching, text colour customisation, the ability for the window to be always on top and to remove the title bar when needed, and to import CSV files into the program to be part of the text reading database). I plan to continue adding features because I see it as a worthwhile endeavour since it assisted me in other highschool classes, and expanding it and making it available to anyone would be cool as hell.

Also everything will be locally ran because fuck the cloud, fuck SaaS and fuck tools that require internet to function.

I want a MMORPG where there are 100,000 unique NPCs all run by AI with a custom backstory that keep track of the world events and respond accordingly.

I want them to have player/party specific memories and information. I want the merchants to remember the player and treat them according to how they were treated.

Optical character recognition/digitisation thingy but for sheet music.

Accurate search engine that strips ai generated articles from search results.

Accurate product search engine, that finds what I am looking for instead of ads, and includes searching by what the product is made of, it's shape etc. Last time I was trying to find no glue no glass non-welded no plastic tea infuser it took me far too long.

This goes into the presently unrealistic, but I want a HUD that can display quests, tasks, inventory and health stats.

Some wizard tool I can download that will swap out Windows for a stable Linux distro, like Fedora or Debian.

Fully featured Open source drivers for all popular devices. RINA implementations for all major platforms and architectures.

I just want something that'll chop the sponsored segment out of my podcasts. Can't be that hard. Every sponsor segment starts and ends with a standard jingle, so just have the software look for that opening and closing jingle and cut out whatever's in between, right?

Honestly considering vibe coding it because ads are the reason I don't listen to my podcasts anymore

Community driven search engine. Where everyone can upvote/downvote/tag or even comment on page or service, to filter out garbage services and help increase visibility of valuable sites.

That would probably require being logged in and verified as a real, unique person, otherwise bots would make it garbage really fast.

I want a program that will digitize my brain and give me control over all the inputs and weights.

Free me from this accursed prison of flesh!!

Nice try, Microsoft. Not letting you vibe code my ideas

A way of disabling "AI overview" and llm "Shop assistants" that inject themselves into my view across every website that I visit.

open source drivers for all common graphics and networking cards. these currently need binary blobs in linux to work