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LazyHusband Smart Phone App Compliments Your Wife for You (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the yes-honey-that-dress-looks-great-on-you-no-you're-not-fat dept.

The guy who came up with the LazyHusband app, Ethan Duggan, isn't married. That's good, because he's only 12 years old. One of his local (Las Vegas) TV stations says this about him: "...the 12-year-old from Henderson, Nev., said he was tired of always replying to his mother's questions of how she looked in an outfit, he came up with common phrases that, with a touch of the screen, can tell his mother, 'You look amazing today.'" The app costs 99 cents for iOS, Android or Kindle. Ethan admits that Dad helped, but says the app is his own work and was his idea. He's now working on Lazy Kid and Lazy Wife. The TV story says, "Phrases for Lazy Kid include, yes, I did my homework and I love you. Ethan said he is having a hard time coming up with common phrases that a wife might say to her husband." Pro basketball retiree turned business guy Shaquille O'Neal is reportedly interested in LazyHusband, which means you may hear plenty more about LazyHusband and the prodigy who created it.

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  1. this is prodigy? by shadowrat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    so this is considered the mozart level of app making? this app will be cherished centuries later?

  2. Re:Congrats kid by RussR42 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It took me a second to realize that he may be a prodigy after all. Not for the app, but for the marketing. Sell the same app a couple times to everyone with a different set of canned phrases instead of one generalized app that will let you select from a custom list of messages. Meh.

  3. He's only 12 by scarboni888 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And he understands the mind-numbing monotony of some peoples' repetitive need for affirmation of their existence.

    Way to go Ethan!