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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. Congrats kid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and the prodigy who created it

    Slashdot thinks you are a prodigy. Of course Slashdot editors aren't that smart either so don't get too caught up on that.

    1. 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.

    2. Re:Congrats kid by phantomfive · · Score: 2

      Kids who achieve that kind of thing almost without exception have an adult guiding them along. I'd be willing to bet this is no exception, there's an adult hiding behind him doing all the publicity work.

      --
      "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
    3. Re:Congrats kid by Graydyn+Young · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Or maybe, just maybe, Ethan's Dad is a marketing genius, and his marketing plans involve using his 12 year old son.

    4. Re:Congrats kid by bitt3n · · Score: 5, Funny

      in that case, his Dad's pretty smart. not everyone predicted app stores 12 years ago

      --
      how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
  2. Let feminist complaints begin in.. by poofmeisterp · · Score: 3, Funny

    3.....2.......1.......

  3. Re:there is only one word you need to know by kevinT · · Score: 5, Funny

    You forgot the all purpose response -- "yes dear"

  4. Lazy Wife phrase ideas by TimHunter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pick up your clothes/games/tools, etc.
    You need to shave/bathe/put on nicer clothes, etc.
    Is that all you ever think about?
    You forgot my birthday/the milk/to flush, etc.

    1. Re:Lazy Wife phrase ideas by TsuruchiBrian · · Score: 5, Funny

      "I want a divorce, and I am taking the kid(s) that didn't invent this stupid app. You can have Ethan."

  5. Lazy! by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we need LazySlashdotter, with such gems as:

    "Minus 1 - Troll!"

    "Minus 1 - I disagree!"

    "Ok, mom. I'll put the wash in the drier right after this raid is over!"

    "No, mom. My school doesn't have any dances scheduled this year."

    "No, mom. My college doesn't have any dances scheduled this year."

    "Ok, mom. I will try OKCupid right after this raid is over."

    "Thanks for bringing me my AARP application, which they mail to people at age 50. You really didn't need to come down all these stairs into the basement at your age."

    --
    (-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
    1. Re:Lazy! by CycleMan · · Score: 2

      I first received my AARP application when I was 25. I displayed it for several years on my office door. I received another not long ago, at 38.

      I get one about every other month. I think I'm not living in the right neighborhood...

      They took my money and I had a valid membership at age 29. But when I called to get my darn discount card, they said, "Oops - you're too young for the card, but you can keep paying dues and receiving the magazine if you'd like." I don't know how they missed that beforehand; the application asks for your birthdate.

      My membership in AAUW was about as short-lived as well.

  6. Brainstorming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Ethan said he is having a hard time coming up with common phrases that a wife might say to her husband."

    Let me get you started, kiddo:

    1. No i don't want to have sex tonight
    2. No i won't be cooking dinner tonight
    3. No I don't want to have sex tonight
    4. We are out of food, seriously there is nothing to eat [play this automatically any time user is near a refrigerator]
    5. for the last time, no we aren't having sex tonight so shut up already!

    AC because there *is* a snowballs chance in hell my wife might accidentally google and find this...

    1. Re:Brainstorming by crakbone · · Score: 2

      Think you forgot Honey I have a headache. Do you think she is pretty? I saw you looking at her. How do I look in this? Does this dress make me look fat? Do you know what today is?

    2. Re:Brainstorming by characterZer0 · · Score: 2

      Your wife seems to be the problem. It is more fun if you are the problem.

      1. No, I will not hold your beer for you while you try that.
      2. And I won't call 911 afterward either.
      3. And don't you dare come into the house and drip blood on the floor to use the phone.
      4. I think they put a guard on there for a reason. Why are you taking it off?
      5. Your life insurance policy is paid up, right?
      6. I am going back inside.

      --
      Go green: turn off your refrigerator.
  7. Next: Lazy coder by xor.pt · · Score: 2

    With long time favorites:

    "If it isn't broken, don't fix it."
    "It's compiling."
    "It's not a bug, it's a feature."

    and many others!

  8. 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?

    1. Re:this is prodigy? by Hentes · · Score: 2

      Everybody can sell a good app. But it takes a true genius to sell a crappy one.

  9. Only a single guy/kid could come up with this by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I ever used a phone app to tell my wife "you look amazing today", I'd be sleeping on the couch for at least a month.

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    #DeleteChrome
  10. Lazy Boyfriend by Looker_Device · · Score: 3, Funny

    I agree with you.
    Yes, I think she is a total bitch for saying that to you.
    You fascinate me.
    Yes, I would love to see that romantic comedy with you.

    --
    Your political party doesn't care about your rights and only represents corporate interests.
  11. Re:Pro basketball retiree turned business guy by sunking2 · · Score: 2

    No, in fact he'll never say he's the smartest one in the room. But he does have seed money and isn't afraid to take some chances and toss it around to try to help people. What have you done lately?

  12. Re:wat by pspahn · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure there was very little "programming" involved.

    I think people just don't give programmers enough credit these days.

    --
    Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
  13. ELIZA Revisited by foobsr · · Score: 2
    That is what deserves to be called progress.

    CC.

    --
    TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
  14. 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!

  15. great by Titan1080 · · Score: 2

    Now we have an app that spouts the most overused word in English history; AMAZING. everything's AMAZING, have you noticed how AMAZING everything is these days? It's such an AMAZING word, I'd be AMAZED if anyone ever used any other non-AMAZING adjective besides AMAZING, ever again.

  16. Re:'Prodigy'? by kaizendojo · · Score: 2

    And now your commenting anonymously on slashdot. How proud your folks must be.

  17. Re:Apparently you are not married. by Desler · · Score: 2

    It's a soundboard app. There are thousands upon thousands of them already.

  18. Re:there is only one word you need to know by jittles · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forgot the all purpose response -- "yes dear"

    Wife: "Does this outfit make me look fat?"
    Husband: "Yes dear"

  19. Flaw in story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why is this woman asking her 12 YEAR OLD SON how she looks in her outfits?

    How Freudian

  20. Confucius says... by Xphile101361 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man who is lazy to wife in life, has wife who is lazy to husband in bed.

  21. I built a /. post app, it is very popular by Ice+Station+Zebra · · Score: 2

    you can see it at work but just reading all the comments on /.

  22. Re:there is only one word you need to know by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Someone who's married?

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    Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
  23. Re:there is only one word you need to know by femtobyte · · Score: 2

    It's still an important step up from:
    Husband: "no, it's not the outfit."

  24. Re:there is only one word you need to know by dudpixel · · Score: 2

    who the fuck calls their wife dear?

    Well they certainly do cost a lot...

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    This seemed like a reasonable sig at the time.