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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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- ↑ "App Ideas for Success". ChatGPT. Retrieved 2026-01-08.