Show HN: List of 5k poorly executed but popular apps

This is a good flip. Like selling shovels to gold miners (if making more shovels were free).

Hi everybody! I wanted to come up with an idea for my next side project, but I got stuck.

That's when I got an idea to collect actual products (apps) from the app store. So I did just that.

After finding a few of them valuable, I decided to make it an info product and sell it on Gumroad.

I must say that not all of the 5,000 apps are good ideas or they are worth the effort, but I think there are some of them that you could execute better than the original.

Note: these apps are from the (google) play store. Filters (parameters) I used: - each app has more than 100,000+ downloads - lower than 3.2 ratings - active, all of them were updated in the last few months

You can find a few examples in the Gumroad page.

Have a nice day and stay safe!

Good idea. Someone posted a few months ago about how they learned to program by basically doing this- cloning apps and doing them better.

Would love to see something like this for web apps

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