Emailed on January 10th 2020 in The Friday Forward

That last snippet was enough future for one newsletter. Check this out:

This week the app that briefly held the top spot as "Most popular free apps on Apple's App store" turns your phone into a disposable camera.

David Dobrik’s app, David’s Disposable, has surpassed “well, well over a million” downloads, a person with knowledge of the numbers told The Verge. The person wouldn’t say how many downloads the app has in total, but they said that downloads are picking up speed.

The concept: People who download the app can use it to take photos, but they have to wait until 9AM the following day for the photos to become available. The idea is to simulate the wait time it takes for disposable camera photos to be developed. Photos can also be ordered as prints directly from the app, and they take about three weeks to show up.

Between this and canned water, all of the founders in our reader base can collectively agree on one thing, "why did we make this so hard..."

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