Making app idea
Name the products you’d love to customize, or the ‘making apps’ you’d like to see developers build for you. And vote for your favorites!
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Custom Clothing
I see a day when you can feed in your measurements, choose or even design your own garment & fabric - et voila
251 votes -
Flat pack house or a slice form camper shell for my toyota tacoma.
I saw this really cool project for the homeless on http://www.shelter20.com/ and it got me to think about flat pack housing. How cool would that be to build your own house. Then I thought how about something smaller like a camper shell for my truck, my only problem is my laser bed is 12" x 24" and really I can only cut 1/4" thick wood. So yeah a slice form camper shell!
214 votes -
CROWD SOURCED DESIGN WITH A CAUSE
An online site where products and projects can be funded by the choice and support of the people's choices. Kind of like www.Kickstarter.com but focused on design products and projects that also give back by helping others. Imagine looking through great ideas, product designs and projects that you decide by your choice to send into manufacturing and / or to bring into reality. You get something and you help others at the same time. This site will inspire and allow anyone to take an active role in helping good design get manufactured while giving back to those in need with…
184 votes -
Jewelry Making Design and Inspiration
I would love an app that let's us jewelry makers and designers connect and share. Educational and inspirational.
119 votes -
Printed Circuit Boards!
Circuit board manufacturing!
While I understand this is probably unlikely to happen any time soon, it would be nice...
81 votes -
furniture/storage system
A shelving/storage system that can expand with simple components and is parametrically adjustable to the components I need. Shelving and boxes reconfigure easilly and the system grows as I need it. Have components for doors, shelves, boxes, baskets.
79 votes -
Custom Eyeware
You shoud be able to desig every bit, from the materials to the finer details. Texture, engravings, shape, weight, everything should bend to your desires.
60 votes -
Lego pieces
Custom pieces of Lego that would add interest to the basic stock.
53 votes -
Make a 3D object into 2D slices
I'm thinking of an app that would take a 3D object and convert it into interlocking 2D slices (like SketchChair, but for all kinds of objects--I'm thinking specifically of those cardboard deer heads you can get from Urban Outfitters and other places). It would take a lot of the guesswork out of making complex forms!
40 votes -
3D printed silicone kitchen-ware
Make your own funky shape of muffin-tins, ice-block molds, chocolate molds, cake tins, etc etc.
40 votes -
Automated Part Nester
Nesting parts for the optimal use of sheet material could be automated by an app that works out the most space saving and cost effective solution. It could even put other peoples orders onto your spare bit of sheet so that everyone is sharing every bit of surface available with least waste/ offcuts possible.
35 votes -
Customized shoes
I would like some shoes especially designed for the shape of my feet that fit perfectly. I'm not the only one who has hard to fit feet or one foot bigger than the other or can't find a shoe in my size with some kind of personality!
33 votes -
More Depth!
New option in designing products: Increased etching depth beyond the 3 current depths. This will increase design options enormously.
31 votes -
My Clip-IT Board
A colorful clipboard WITH a section to attach a post-it note pad and a personalized pen.
27 votes -
Customizable Metal Coins
Everybody likes fun designs on metal coins. This way people could make party favors, heavy business cards, or even poker money!
27 votes -
Customizable Table (from 3 base models)
three size blank tables. (side table, coffee table, dining table) that could be etched, or cut an uploaded design into. Availble in 2 types of hard wood. The idea would be no two would ever be the same and you can have your own art in your home as an heirloom piece.
25 votes -
Letter Press plates
Custom plates to use for letter press (pressing the inked/dry plate into paper leaving the design texture).
24 votes -
Moleskine-size notebook with the pages i'd like in it
I'd love to customize a small notebook with a mix of blank, lined and graph paper, according to how much I use each of those types. I always have to choose just one!
23 votes -
I'd love to make a custom children's play house!
It would be fantastic to make a custom play house for toddlers like the plastic ones they currently sell. Customize by adding the child's name and perhaps some of the things they like too.
20 votes -
Longboard skateboards
I would love to have the ability to select from several longboard molds (plywood, bamboo/fiberglass/carbon fiber combination) and then upload my own design based on a template for a particular shape.
20 votes
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