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I'm currently looking to develop an open source app that can help somebody. I'm currently out of ideas, so I'd like to heard if from you guys.

Sorry if it seems to lazy to ask for ideas like that, I just thought that I could do it since the result will be a free app.

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[–] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sailforms Android app!

https://groups.google.com/g/sailforms-users

Use like 12 years for keeping track of lots of personal stuff. It's a generic database / table / forms app that's very powerfull. Buttons, queries, reports, calculated fields etc.

But: the app developer stopped despite a rather enthusiastic community. Now it isn't even on the Play Store anymore and I guess everybody must have an exit strategy.

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[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

I would really want to have a really good open source SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) app, with good secure key management and excellent transfer performance. So far, I haven't found any such app.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

An equivalent to iOS Shortcuts for Android and Linux.

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[–] Amaterasu@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Uber? What do you use for rides?

[–] reactive_recall@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago
[–] charje@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Visual voicemail

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 points 5 months ago

Readably

No RSS reader is quite like it.

Synfonium

Best music player out there.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Xplore file browser

It's trivial to replace the independent pieces of xplore, but it has so many features in one app that I just can't let it go. It's got dual pane file browsing, disk usage chart, smb, ftp, and many other cloud storage connections. It also handles many types of compression.

It's become my main offline music player as well, because it has the simple ability to shuffle a folder of music, which is all I really need.

It can also view installed apps, export them to apk, and view and modify appdata (as non root!).

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[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

FLOSS Shazam? I really love discovering music when I travel, but I see no open source version of it.

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[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Why is there not an app that tells you which grocery stores have the best prices? I should be able to give it a list and it'll tell me where to buy each item.

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[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't have any suggestions. I can't think of any proprietary app good enough that I'd give up control of my computing for. However, consider objective requirements rather than subjective terms like good. What do you use the proprietary app for, why are existing free alternatives not sufficient, and can a free app be made that satisfies those requirements?

[–] Ferris@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

This is not an answer to your question, but I would love if somebody would make InputStick software for platforms other than android if possible

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I'd be happy if Voiply would just work without GMS and could be downloaded from F-droid.

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