Dissonance App

Idea: An app ("Dissonance App", "dissonance" being the opposite of harmony) that connects two people to have a toxic/hateful real-life encounter with each other. The app can filter by what you're angry about (racism, divorce, a petty topic like pineapple on pizza), the action you want to take (dating, arguing, boxing or bare-knuckle brawling), and/or the characteristics of the person to connect with (social class, body part proportions, whether they look like your ex). Also: if you to release your anger using this app you might be less angry in real life and on other dating apps and social apps; the "match found" icon could be a middle finger or a devil emoji; there could be a spectator mode to allow other people to witness the real-life encounters

Idea: Dissonance App: app to connect two ppl for a toxic/hateful IRL encounter (dissonance is the opposite of harmony)
Filter by reason for anger (racism, divorce, pineapple on pizza), desired action (dating, arguing, boxing), personal traits (social class, looking like your ex) pic.twitter.com/rKkcc418FF

— Creativity Wasted Podcast (@creativitywaste) May 20, 2024

Fat Steve (Instagram: @fatstevecomedy)
Emmanuel Lechuga (Instagram: @emmanuel_lechuga_comedy)
Ryan Brown (Linktree: @brownryancomedy Instagram: @brownryancomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Karaoke Social Media App

Idea: A social media app to show off and/or request karaoke or lip-syncing videos from your friends or from celebs. Also: paying people to help them overcome their shyness to do karaoke for you; the app could only allow the recipient to see the video once or only allow the singer to attempt the song once; wanting to see other people sing badly but not wanting to do it yourself

Mark Hamilton (Facebook: @mgamarkhamilton Instagram: @markhamilton6352)
Tommy Cook (Instagram: @tommycooklol Web links (like LinkTree): tommycooklol.carrd.co)
Angela Verges (Facebook: @angela.verges Linktree: @HottFlash)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Performer Availability-Booking App

Idea: An app for comedians/performers to coordinate with bookers to schedule gigs, where the performers list their avails in the app, and a set of show bookers (similar to those on "MCN" aka "Michigan Comics Network" on Facebook) browse through and select available performers to book them for their shows. Also: multiple bookers could see that you're available to perform on a given day, and the first one to choose you gets you, so performers don't have to, for exmaple, apply to two weekly Monday shows on alternating Mondays; allowing performers to set availability criteria using custom macros/scripts, such as that they don't want to drive a long distance for a small amount of performance time or pay; info in the app about the performers (clips, bios, warnings from other bookers, etc.) and the venue (free drink tickets, stage props available for improv acts, etc.); the weirdness of standup comedy venues not wanting comedians to wear shorts

Lisa Green (Instagram: @lisagreencomedy Facebook: @depottowncomedy)
Todd Garvey (Facebook: @todd.garvey.716)
Rio Riojas (Beacons.ai (similar to Linktree): @drdecide Podcast: Cornbread and Beans)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Kink Compatibility Checks in Dating Apps

Idea: A dating app that only shows you people who share the same kinks/fetishes or at least would tolerate your kinks/fetishes. Also: admitting other embarrassing things in dating profiles, like STDs or financial debt; a kink tolerance sliding scale in the app, like to tolerate their extreme kink, they have to make lots of money; setting chores or qualifications for your partner to "unlock" their kink like in a videogame; ruining the fun of the idea by comparing dating sites to tax prep sites

Idea: A dating app that only shows people who share (or tolerate) your kinks
Also: kink tolerance levels, like to tolerate an extreme kink, they must make more $$$; chores to "unlock" a kink like a videogame; ruining the fun of the idea by comparing dating sites to tax prep sites pic.twitter.com/X2dkxjyd9C

— Creativity Wasted Podcast (@creativitywaste) September 13, 2023

Rachel Santos (Facebook: @comedian.rachel.santos Instagram: @rachelskindafunny)
Johnny Santos (Linktree: @johnnyskindafunny)
James River (Instagram: @jamesrivercomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Physical Fitness Challenges in Dating Apps

Idea: A dating app like Pokemon Go where you have to walk around and/or perform a physical fitness-oriented scavenger hunt to find and meet up with your date. Also: questioning the morality of dating apps allowing you to filter potential dates based on physical fitness test results; an online date that turns out to be a surprise competition against 100 other people; an absolutely insane online dating lie

Dustin Cole (Facebook: @dustincolecomedy Instagram: @dustncole)
Casey Curran (YouTube: @Squavipwn Facebook: @casey.curran.54)
Darius Walker (Facebook: @darius.t.walker.1 Instagram: @the_dariuswalker)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Chat Availability Indicator In Real Life

Idea: A social-media-style indicator light to indicate whether you're willing to chat (or flirt or otherwise interact) with nearby people in real life. It would either be displayed in the other person's augmented-reality glasses or on your earring. It could either display the same value (such as "green: available to chat" or "red: not available to chat") to everyone, or display different values to different people to indicate which people you want to talk to. Also: the risk of it making people even more antisocial; either using it as feedback to help train people to read body language or using it as a crutch to never bother to understand body language; everybody immediately pulling out their phones to set a green light every time an attractive woman walks into a room

Jason Fylan-Mares (Facebook: @DoomsdayShelterComedy Facebook: @jason.m.fylan)
Michael Cesaro (Facebook: @michael.cesaro.7)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Daddy Finder App

Idea: An app for submissives to find a dominant "daddy" (or "mommy"), including 1-10 scales of physical dominance and mental dominance or cruelty, personal preferences within a particular fetish, and the desired type of relationship (i.e. one-time daddy, part-time daddy i.e. becoming a couple for whom the fetish stays in the bedroom, or full-time daddy). Also: weird and questionable fetishes; fetishes in virtual reality; a non-sexual Kid Rock cosplay adventure

Mic Gimby (Facebook: @devonaugust.gimby.1)
Amy Jo “Blondie Jo” Ezel (Instagram: @blondiejoezel)
Benjamin Cheek (Relentless Comedy; Facebook: @benjamin.cheek.14)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Soapstone VR Comedy Club

Idea: A comedy club in virtual reality, which Aaron created and runs in Facebook/Meta's Horizon Worlds. The comedy club has scheduled shows and also 24-7 open mic(s) (open mic rooms are dynamically created as existing rooms fill up). Also: if a comic starts telling racist jokes, Aaron might stab their VR avatar with a sword; the synergy of virtual reality and the NBA; the comforting effect of having a force-field that blocks the audience from the stage

Stefanie Ann (Podcast: Sanctioned by Stefanie Podcast: MILF and the Millennial Webcast: Knuckleheads Comedy (YouTube) Open Mic: Fireside Inn Dive Bar Instagram: @thedownriverdiva Facebook: @stefanie.brewer1)
JD The Smile Hustler (Twitter: @smilehustler01 Instagram: @smilehustler01 Facebook: JD The Smile Hustler)
Aaron Sorrels (theunemployedalcoholic.com Podcasts: Well Metaversed and Clean Comedy Time Soapstone Comedy Club on Horizon Worlds)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Karma Peacock NFTs

Idea: An NFT-based social media application where each person has a peacock avatar, and people (or charities) give them a "feather" as a reward for doing a good deed, and so the more good deeds they do, the more elaborate their peacock becomes, allowing them to show off (aka "to peacock") their good karma to their friends. Also: each feather would include information about the good deed so other people can see why you earned it; people could give you cryptocurrency as a reward for a good deed; human auditors could verify that the highly-rewarded good deeds actually happened; discussing whether the possibility of a financial reward ruins the "purity" of good deeds; maybe people have always wanted to give like $5 as a reward to people they see on the local news who saved a puppy or something but there was never a convenient way to do so

Chris Karpinski (Facebook: @christopher.j.karpinski Mead Me at Valhalla Comedy Show)
Mike Szar (Twitter: @MikeSzar_ Instagram: @mikeszar_ Facebook: @Mikeszarcomedy)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Eavesdrop Diner

Idea: A chain of restaurants where every table is live-streamed on the Internet to allow people watching at home to eavesdrop on their conversations, pay for their food and/or drinks, give them likes, chat/gossip with other eavesdroppers who're watching the same table, and (in some cases) send messages to interact with the people eating at the restaurant. Also: watching first dates, anniversary dinners, arguments, and break-ups; acting fake or fetishy for the camera; a coaster or tracker to allow the camera to follow you around while you do activities (like play pool) in the restaurant; an "event wheel" for eavesdroppers to spin to cause events in the restaurant (for example, to cause a waitress to spill the drinks)

Carl Sobel (Facebook: Comedy Night at River City Saloon Twitter: @carl_sobel)
Parker Hammon (Twitter: @parker_hammon)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

License Plate Hate App

Idea: An anonymous messaging app to allow disgruntled drivers to send angry text messages to other drivers using their license plate. It would instantly cause a huge spike of deaths from these disgruntled drivers crashing while trying to send angry texts. But these aren't the best people anyway. Also: joyriding in someone else's car to cause them to get woken up by angry messages; an angry message to another driver might somehow lead to a marriage; taunting criminals during televised high-speed car chases

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 57

Melanie Gresham (Twitter: @mel_gresham)
Adam West (Facebook: @adam.west.73307)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Social Media Slideshow

Idea: A social media network where you don't have to scroll, you just view your wall like a YouTube slideshow. When you post, if the post is longer than 30 seconds, you'd have to make a preview for the post. The slideshow of your wall would show just the previews, and if you decide you want to watch the longer clip, you'd be able to immediately watch the longer clip or queue the longer clip. When watching the long clips, you could break them up with the 30-second previews from your wall, like how TV breaks up a show with commercials. Also: post tags; Facebook showing you the same post an hour later; Netflix not getting the hint that you don't want to watch a particular movie

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 55

Justin McLeod (Twitter: @jibtron_zero)
Jeff Ford (Twitter: @Comicjeff10)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Social Media Post Jail (Reputation Protection App)

Idea: An app to analyze your social media posts after you press the post button, and if the app determines that a post might be passive-aggressive, angry, or harmful to your reputation, it puts the post in "post jail" for a day to force you re-think the post, and then you must confirm that you really want to post it before anyone can see it. Also: friends could review your posts before allowing you to post them; the app would also be useful for interrupting awkward politically-charged in-person conversations

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 54

Gwen Hope (Twitter: @gwenhopecomedy)
Ron Rigby (Twitter: @RonRigby)
Joe Williams (Twitter: @JoeDoubleYou)
Seiko Yomogita (Instagram: @best_japanese_comedian)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Cam Dogs

Idea: A web site where you can interact with a real dog virtually via a webcam, and also control robotics to feed the dog, pet the dog, and play with the dog (such as by throwing a ball). Possible customers include lonely elderly people, people in hospitals, people who are allergic to dogs or live in places where dogs aren't allowed, people in public (traveling or at work or school) who need to relax, etc. Also: emotionally blackmailing customers with pictures of sad dogs if they stop using the service; using footage of the dog in a "Black Mirror"-like scenario to create a robot with the same personality as the dog; themes or scenarios, such as a Scooby Doo robotic ghost adventure

Joel Fragomeni (Podcast Joel Radio)
Sai-D (Twitter: @saidee27)
Matti Yaari (Facebook: @myaari)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Socialburn Foldable Phone

Idea: A device which looks like a smart phone but only contains WiFi for talking directly with your friends' socialburn devices. It is used for slow but secure social networking which can never reach the Internet. Messages and posts bounce from friend to friend when friends are in the same room with each other, eventually reaching all of your friends or a specific friend who is the target of the message. It can also physically attach to a normal smart phone and act as an extended screen for the normal phone, kind of like the recent fad of "foldable phones" which have a foldable screen and thus fold open to have a large screen like a tablet.

Gimmy Cipriano (YouTube: ABitTooMuch)
Kara Coraci (Twitter: @KaraCoraci Web: crotchie.com)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Superfi Dating App

Idea: A dating app which allows you to select potential dates solely by physical characteristics. You select body type, hair color, height, etc. kind of like you're designing a character in a videogame. You can also prioritize and filter out physical characteristics. For example: you prefer blondes over redheads, and want to filter out all of the brunettes. Also: if you're too picky, there's a good chance nobody will want to date you; if everything personality-based in dating profiles is a total lie, selecting dates based only on superficial physical characteristics doesn't seem so bad

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 46

David Shank (Broken Knuckle Podcast Recording Studio Sitting Down WIth Standups Podcast)
Jason Spitsbergen (Twitter: @JSpitsbergen)
Josh Bowab
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (Podcast Detroit)

Twitter Theater

Idea: A performance venue where you vote on Twitter (or some other social media platform) for who will perform that night. It would encourage friendly competition between performers, and would encourage famous people who are in town for other reasons to "drop in" spontaneously Also: purchasing the ticket as part of the vote and getting refunded if the performer you voted for loses; checking the candidates every day at lunch would keep people interested in the venue; it would be a step towards freeing humanity from the prison of constant time commitments

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 41

Avery Sommerfeld (Facebook: @crazeecomedy, YouTube: Funny News)
DC Bradley (Instagram: @dcbradleyonig)
Steven G Sullivan
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Facebook But Without Kids or Parents

Idea: To split Facebook into two networks: one only for adults where you're not allowed to talk about kids, and another for kids and for talking about kids. Also: adults with child-like hobbies who don't like kids

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 34

Josh Bowab
Kyle Forsyth (Twitter: @IAmKyleForsyth)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Tinder But Without Anyone From Your High School

Idea: A filter for Tinder to allow you to filter out people who went to your high school. Also: using Tinder as a self-esteem boost with no intent to contact anyone

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 34

Josh Bowab
Kyle Forsyth (Twitter: @IAmKyleForsyth)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)

Socialburn

Idea: A cheap phone-like device which only communicates using Bluetooth or point-to-point WiFi with friends, primarily for social networking of juicy gossip/media that you don't want on the Internet. Also: a new category of slower but more secure social media posts/messages, posts/messages bouncing from friend-to-friend and acknowledgements bouncing back, having a different "socialburn" device for each of your social cliques, a shockingly evil use of this device

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 31

Diego Attanasio (Twitter: @DiegoComedy)
Justin Covington (Twitter: @JCov1 )
Bret Hayden (Twitter: @ComedyRumble)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (PodcastDetroit.com)