Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Week 4 EOC: There's an App For That


The idea of my app would be where you can upload a photo of yours from your phone and there would be some type of generator to add a small description to it. The caption would attempt to relate to the photo as much as possible. It would also try to sound clever and be funny. It would mainly be used for humorous purposes and the photo would be uploaded to the database of the app. You would be able to create account or just use your Facebook or Twitter account and upload your photos to your account. Other users of the app can like and comment on your photo while taking into thought whether the caption fits the photo and if it was clever enough to help justify their like. There would also be a “top caption” of the day and photos will be organized into categories depending on what the photo is, such as animals, cars, food, people, and so on. It would be just like a social networking site but with humorous theme to it.

After doing some research, most of my results were apps that would allow you to add the caption to the photo yourself so I was feeling better about coming up with an original idea for an app. Just when I was just about to conclude that no app exists… it does. The app called “Frank Says What?” does exactly what I had described. The caption generator is named Frank and he is the one that adds a caption to your photos. Some of the examples that I saw were very surprising, seeing how clever this generator, or Frank can be. One feature that I did not mention in my original idea was that you can share your Frank-captioned photo on Facebook or Twitter instead of on the app itself. It’s a great app and definitely funny. I can see this app catching on.

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