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Media server software that lets me program my own television station.

5:00 PM - Play the next file from folder X.
6:00 PM - Play the next file from folder Y.
7:00 PM - Play the next file from folder Z.
8:00 PM - Play random movie.

An app for Android (Google TV) that lets you change the volume on a per-application basis. Like a mixer. I want to be able to set Disney+ to 200%, Netflix to 130% and Youtube to 80%.

I have long wanted a weather forecast along route in navigation apps for long trips. Ideally you could add in stops and estimate how long you would need to wait for storms to pass over.

Music software that shuffles entire albums and plays them end to end before switching to another random album.

A program that allows me to search through a large drive and see if there are any duplicates of congruent files on them, even if those files have different names but are otherwise identical, i.e. copies elsewhere on the drive.

• A weather widget on Android that shows all of current temp, high/low for the day, and high/low remaining for the day.

• I don't think this needs to be a whole app, or just a feature within a camera app, but I want the ability to underlay an existing image at say 10% transparency on screen while taking a photo. It doesn't get saved, I just want to be able to use it as a guide for framing things, like documenting changes on sites or recreating old photos for fun.

• I want to be able to open a line of communication to another driver nearby. Maybe a range of 100ft. I don't know if it's Bluetooth or what. "Hey your taillight is out" "hey coming up in your blindspot" "hey, please can I merge I'm not trying to be a dick" "hey is this the exit for Wawa?"

An app that can fix audio in movies to make dialog easier to hear and understand.

I want an app that existed, and was killed before it's time by Intuit. Level Money

You put in (and it learned over time) your expenses, and it gave you a single number which was how much you could spend per day. It adjusted as you went, so if you under/overspent it adjusted.

It wasn't perfect, but was the last time I had a firm handle on my finances.

Fuck you Intuit, burn in every hell imagine able for your myriad of sins including this minor one comparatively.

Digimon.

I have to carry my phone with me everywhere I go, I want a little guy that is personal and unique to me, it gets points for stuff I do, and them I can battle with other people who have their own little guys.

Pokémon go doesn't cut it for me, the battle isn't Pokemon. The games are great but it's me playing the guy not me being the guy.

I have the whole thing on paper but learning the programming to make it is discouraging and I'm already in college and writing full time

I really want an app that locally indexes my locally stored photos and lets me search them locally, based on places, things or people seen in the photo.

I would be ecstatic if someone ported AutoHotkey to Linux. AutoKey doesn't come close to cutting it for me.

The only thing I've ever really wanted that didn't used to exist was an app that could identify things visually. So you find a bug or a bird or an object and snap a photo, and it tells you what it is instead of having to ask real people.

This is now possible and is getting better all the time. But I still haven't seen an all invlusive app for everything? Like there's one specifically for bugs. Another specifically for birds. Saw one that specifically was for identifying your dog's breed. Haven't seen one that is universal and can identify everything in an image at once.

Ideally, this would just be a feature of things like Google Lens. Like I could just open the camera, set it to ID mode, and just point it at the thing I am looking at and have it tell me what it is and not just find images similar to it.

I'm looking for an app (on Android) that not only keeps track of birthdays, but also lets you add an extra date if that person has passed away. So it will display someone's age correctly instead of just counting on. And give reminders of both their birth- and their dying day. If it exists, please let me know...

GPS app that gave more control over routing. You can use waypoints, but the ETA is based on the waypoint instead of destination, and you have to manually continue navigation once you reach the waypoint.

This software probably already exits but I have been trying to make 3D panoramas. My current workflow is to take the 3D left-right images and separate them into left images and right images using a bash script. Then use Hugin to make two panoramas and combine them with gimp. It's kind of a pain. It would be nice hugin cloud just the 3D images and do it all for me.

There's been a lot that I've been looking for but I've never been able to find. Here are the one's that I can remember off the top of my head.

The first, which doesn't need to be an app/program, is something that would allow me to get more use out of Flathub. I've been wanting to get more use out of Flathub but the biggest problem I have with Flathub, is that there is no reliable way to discover new apps. The reason for this is because of how the website sorts its apps. They seem to be sorted either randomly or by popularity, as the order changes occasionally, and it mixes new apps in with the old apps. What I've been doing is using a chart to keep track of what apps I've seen but I have no idea of how reliable this actually is.

The second, I've mentioned before on another post, is a companion app for GameFAQs that's similar to Anime Plus. If you're not familiar with Anime Plus, it's a website that works as companion app for MyAnimeList. It looks at your MAL profile and generates a temporary profile that offers a few useful features like a list of anime/manga that you've missed and recommendations for other anime/manga.

The last one that I can remember, is a reliable gamepad mapper app for android devices that doesn't require root. I've tried multiple gamepad mapper apps but none of them worked properly and I'm pretty sure that some of them contained malware, especially given the fact that they've been removed from the Google Play Store.

Might exist, or maybe there's some API that I can utilize in which case I could script it. I've done a very cursory search but nothing stood out.

I would love something that would grab x most popular songs from an artist/genre/year range that I have in my music library and create a playlist file. For if I'm just feeling like some "greatest hits" style music. And I don't want an LLM involved.

Drop-in cloud/API replacement for YouTube front-ends. It would keep track of watch history and return recommended videos from an algorithm that's user configurable

• Something to use in place of Microsoft Active Directory, but FOSS
• A program that automagically removes any DRM from an executable, whether it's a simple CD check or fucking denuvo
• Anything that makes playing fullscreen games in low resolutions NOT mess up your desktop - if you ever played something in like 1024x768 on a 1920x1080 default resolution, you should know what I'm talking about

Recommendation algorithm/engine for self hosted media server. If someone knows where I can get a large amount of watch data for a large amount of people I could write such a thing.

Navigation app the prioritizes things important to me. I'll got an extra distance if I turn less or I right turn only or I have no speed bumps.

An app that exports all the events (title, date, time, url link) from my newsletter email inbox. Bonus points for same but for Instagram. I vibe coded something but gave up... For now.