Hey. Web person. Build this.

I get mad that I am not smart enough to write code or mash API's or do whatever it is programmers or designers or developers or whatever the job title is for the people who create smart websites and mobile apps ... yeah, what they do.

Because this is what I would do.

I would have a place to type in keywords. As many as I want.

Homes 3+ bed 2.5+ bath, open houses, lunch, spaghetti, sports bars, sports, dry cleaners shirts $1.95, traffic, history, live theatre, news, what are they building there, cherry ice cream.

I would have a place to type in a route. As long as I want.

SE 4th to Park to SE 14th to Grand to 9th to Locust.

I would have a button that you could click that says "Map."

And then, coded so that it made sense, I would see my map.

And it would show, within 3 blocks of my route:

All homes for sale with 3 or more bedrooms and 2.5 or more baths. Free to the Realtor. FSBO's pay.
All open houses. Free to the Realtor, FSBO's pay.
All restaurants with lunch specials (yes, paid advertising) today.
All restaurants with spaghetti specials today (yes, paid). OK, maybe through the coming weekend.
All sports bars with what they are showing on their live TVs tonight. Free.
All sports events through the weekend. Free. And the results from last night.
All dry cleaners who do shirts for $1.95 or less (light starch). Paid.
All potential traffic delays, including wrecks, construction, detours, school zones.
All sites of historical events.
All live theatre venues and what is coming through the next weekend. Free.
All sites of news stories from the daily newspaper in the past 72 hours.
All sites where there is commercial development with what's is coming or going.
All places where I can get cherry ice cream or a cherry sundae or maybe even a maraschino cherry on top of an ice cream cone.

And if you don't like cherry ice cream and history, then you can type your own keywords. Except I wouldn't call them keywords. Maybe "My stuff." Or maybe just "Me."

And if you aren't living here with my mother-in-law, you can type any route you want. Yes, you are right. I wouldn't call it route. Maybe "My way."

And you'd push "Map" and it would do the same thing for you.

No pull down menus. I want to choose what I want to choose, not what someone tells me to choose.

No boing, static AroundMe, Yellow Page-esque listings. I want it on a map. With one of those little blue dots that flashes to tell me where I am. And I want it to change when there's a new wreck,  a new listing, a new commercial lease, a new bulldozer, a new headline, a new ad sale. Right then, not a day late. Not when the ad assist gets around to scheduling it. Not when the reporter decides it is time to send in a graf or two.

Now.

And a link to more information.

Web and mobile. And maybe there's some Bluetooth kind of thing so if I need it to talk to me while I'm driving I can do that without getting in a wreck. And showing up on the map myself.

So, if you are one of those developers or programmers or designers or whatever the hell you are, you can have the damn idea. Just tell your boss where you got it.

Don't tell me, "yeah, but, yeah, but, yeah but." If I have to put quote marks around some of those longer "Me" words, fine.

Just let me know when it is done.

I'll bookmark you.

And I'll pay $2.99 for the app.