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Free registration at the forum removes this block.bamboo straws?
rent 3d printers to restaurants that you mod out to do nothing but mass produce straws? (apparently the filament can be recycled)
sort of makes the metal / paper thing moot if you can just recycle the used straws in house.
I sort of feel like this single idea has gotten enough traction that someone should probably get moving on this. LOL
So INSIDERS has "Fastlane Ideas: Executioner Needed" and we have "
100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!"
I thought it might be interesting to have a freeform / brain dump thread for just ideas in general. Remember no crying foul if someone executes on something you post. I'll start.
1.)Outsourced agriculture / crowdfunding :
So outsourced agriculture is a thing, its also a thing you can invest in , you can also do "donations" via microtransaction with sites like kiva (you dont keep the profits)
So I was thinking of sort of merging them , you use existing microtransaction and charity infastructure as point of contact / followup and a springboard.
Small farmers pitch the idea or folks in contact with them put them into the directory (we have x amount of land, with y yearly rainfall in z environment etc) and then folks bid on a farmer or an idea.
You could even customize it, maybe they grow golden pineapples right now but you need to secure a source of tea in 5 years time, well, you use this system to buy into the farmer and work with them to transition things. Maybe they grow cassava but you need it organic, well 'voila'
You're allowing small scale farmers to access cash and international markets but they get to retain control of day to day operations (and turn a higher profit hopefully)
2.) Subscripotion based hotel booking
So I just googled it and "finalprice" does something similar but...
Monthly flat rate subscription for x days a month hotels accomodations meeting y and z criteria for amenities.
Someone who travels a lot , be it a high power insurance company vp or a salesmen living out of his car , this person needs hotels and needs them a lot. Now people who travel a lot have "preferences" for certain hotels but brand loyalty isn't as big as it is in say, car buying or something (they aren't married to hilton or motel 6 as long as were in the ballpark)
You charge a flat monthly or yearly rate (different tiers of pricing) and they just give you say a weeks notice "ill be driving / flying in on this date" with their required amenities.
That info gets sent to a VA who arranges accommodations.
I think you'd lose money on the subscription, having to overpay for last minute bookings (although maybe with enough subscribers you could get discounts), I think the money here would be in the lead generation (up-sell) / data acquisition.
I now have a verified traveler and a date of arrival, can I upsell dining? lyft and uber? what about entertainment? , I can have a gift basket waiting in the room full of fruit and wine shooters and brochures. Who did they fly with last? southwest? I bet delta would be interested in offering them some kind of discount for next time, did they rent a car and do a red eye trip? who did they rent through? sure bet the competitors wish they could contact this person...
On the back-end I now have a customer profile probably worth something to someone and contact details, high power vp guy has great credit prefers xyz dining over abc, he never dines at the hotels but often uses the spas...
So we have a sort of "traveling business person" directory that we're able to build up and resell or sell access to.
3.) Rent Deposit Bounty Hunter service
So when you rent a place you put down a deposit, apparently this often doesn't cover damages , from the tenants point of view that last minute hustle to clean and try to get that money back is a major pain point, they already have to move boxes , now they have to clean as well?
So the company has say 3 person teams with a team lead, all of them generalists, carper removal and install, drywall repair, painting (you could even have those computerized paint match machines they have at hardware stores and walmarts and things in the back of the van to do touch ups on the spot)
Heres the pitch (and we pitch both tenants and owners) , we come in that last day and fix everything to predefined requirements and we take [INSERT BLANK] <- either a flat fee or a % of the deposit
So you'd need to do walk troughs and get something in writing beforehand on what constitutes "good enough" but I also think that as long as a deicison maker (for the property owner) is available last minute you could get them on board.
Focus initially on rentals around college campuses , the kids parents are the cosigners and they sure as hell arent flying down to help and they probably already thought that deposit money was a goner anyway (and of course college kids are destructive) , easy sell, easy win for everyone.
Low income areas, these people consider the deposit to be just another cost of living, for the most part they just presume they wont get it back, so what do they have to lose by letting your team take a crack at it?
The catch here is of course , if its a flat fee then why wouldnt they just do everything but the worst part themselves (say the carpet) then hire a carpet cleaner? , and low income folks wont have money for the fee.
If its a true "bounty" service , you might go to lots of sites where you can't possible fix things and turn a profit for the deposit amount, just wasting time.
But, that money is their sitting and waiting for someone to deliver on better / more efficient/ faster cleaning.
4.)VR Art Gallery
So this idea is sort of being executed on, but not in the way I envisioned.
So what if you could put on a vr helmet and go peruse galleries from the comfort of your own home?
Boom, ok so, We have a website with a directory of galleries to tour in virtual reality, you can buy the things you see .
Execution :we get a headset and vest setup (covered in cameras) and tie it into some AI run software (to detect painting and sculptures and capture lots of photos from different angles and such)
You send those to galleries all over the world for free , you send them another piece of software you've created for free as well, this software updates the main websites when they've sold a piece of art to someone on their end (so you dont sell a piece twice accidentally)
Someone at the art gallery walks around and the cameras take photos of all the pieces and capture artist bio's and prices, we send that info back to the gallery owner for verification and then publish it onto the website.
The gallery owner gets free exposure and more sales, you take a cut of any sales made via the website.
The initial out of pocket is huge of course as we've got 2 software programs and the hardware to integrate but I had this idea walking around the galleries in sedona arizona, definitely room for someone to come in and synchronize all these different players.
So when I said this was "sort of" being executed, I see companies that will either charge you an arm and a leg for a boutique experience (they'll make your gallery virtual) or companies advertising to get galleries onto their vr gallery platform, but I dont see that anyones made this a no brainer for the gallery owners or easy to use for art buyers, that is, its too many steps, in my mind someone at the gallery slowly saunters about the place for an hour or two and the software does the rest, we ship the hardware, we pay for return shipping, we onboard them with the software that makes sure a piece isnt sold twice and we handle getting folks to look at and buy the art.
No ones connected the dots and made this simple yet.
What are your half baked ideas?
4.)VR Art Gallery
Execution :we get a headset and vest setup (covered in cameras) and tie it into some AI run software (to detect painting and sculptures and capture lots of photos from different angles and such)
bamboo straws?
rent 3d printers to restaurants that you mod out to do nothing but mass produce straws? (apparently the filament can be recycled)
sort of makes the metal / paper thing moot if you can just recycle the used straws in house.
I sort of feel like this single idea has gotten enough traction that someone should probably get moving on this. LOL
Something like this would be cool:Educational, interactive video games that replace college courses. And I don't mean people should learn subjects in some shoot-em-up. It's just that with all this technology in the Playstation / Nintendo Switch / Nintendo Wii / etc, I think that technology can be better utilized to create interactive courses.
So this is the traditional way of learning biology:
View: https://youtu.be/ob5U8zPbAX4
But I feel like we can do much better in 2019. We could have video games that actually let students explore the human nervous system. Humans have millions of years of evolutionary history of exploring things with their hands. I feel like us exploring abstract ideas in classrooms is just an insanely inefficient way of learning.
It could even be in VR with those controls that allow you to interact with things.
Also, there's a lot of science on the best ways to learn. We are not utilizing these. With video Games or apps we can set up a scientifically proven review schedule:
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You can learn chemistry this way... ie experimenting and seeing which molecules or atoms bind together... you get immediate feedback if you're right or wrong.
That's an interesting idea. I have friends who are absolutely obsessed with Ramune, which is a Japanese soda that has this marble in the cap.A subscription box with unique snacks, candies & drink mixes/bottled drinks from a region? Something that ships inside the USA, or has no hidden shipping or customs charges?
A buying service where you can request non-perishable items from stores or even street vendors in other countries, which get farmed out to contractors. An international Instacart with a few twists. You hunt for it online and off and can't find anything close. Imagine you came home from a trip and really want X in a local store that you saw in the country you just returned from. You put in a request to the system and a local visits the store and locates X on store shelves, from a picture or web listing you provide (you may have a photograph of the exact item while you were in the store). If contractor finds X, sends you photo / video of X found in the store, you view it and decide buy / change. When you buy, you pay through the platform the total cost of X in USD, the service fee with estimated shipping & duties. You could choose from multiple turnaround tiers, ASAP, 2 weeks, slow boat. Local contractor then sends X to your processing center in-country to process and combine / comingle customer shipments (if it's legal to do with the recieving country). "For the things you can't find in your country at any price".
Check out "FLIPPER - the most reliable and inexpensive toilet seat lifter." The reviews aren't great. That is a great product to improve. And you could also add another foot pedal for the handle. This could also be combined with a great marketing anchor such as star wars, for example, to help sell it. I've decided to take this idea as i'm typing this out, since i'm a mechanical engineer. You better move to dallas and join me as partnerHope there is an inventor here I can team up with. I propose making a kickstand pedal for toilet seats to lift them up and down like those trash can mechanisms.
I am deathly afraid of using public restrooms. With new gender issues coming to the forefront some businesses have stopped men's/women's room and made both into a "family" or "multi-gender" bathroom. Most women can probably argue that if that is the case, they can prepare to see piss all over the toilet seat. Guys do this because they are either lazy or don't like the idea of touching the toilet seat. With the pedal (I've lovingly decided to call it the Potty Pedal) we can lift the seat with out touching the seat and it by design, should lower the seat after the foot is removed. Seems petty, but for someone who would literally drive back home to use the rest room if home was withing a 10 min radius, this is worth it.
Hope there is an inventor here I can team up with. I propose making a kickstand pedal for toilet seats to lift them up and down like those trash can mechanisms.
I am deathly afraid of using public restrooms. With new gender issues coming to the forefront some businesses have stopped men's/women's room and made both into a "family" or "multi-gender" bathroom. Most women can probably argue that if that is the case, they can prepare to see piss all over the toilet seat. Guys do this because they are either lazy or don't like the idea of touching the toilet seat. With the pedal (I've lovingly decided to call it the Potty Pedal) we can lift the seat with out touching the seat and it by design, should lower the seat after the foot is removed. Seems petty, but for someone who would literally drive back home to use the rest room if home was withing a 10 min radius, this is worth it.
That's an interesting idea. I have friends who are absolutely obsessed with Ramune, which is a Japanese soda that has this marble in the cap.
Interesting way to exchange things that are culturally unique.Ramune - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
4.)VR Art Gallery
So this idea is sort of being executed on, but not in the way I envisioned.
So what if you could put on a vr helmet and go peruse galleries from the comfort of your own home?
Boom, ok so, We have a website with a directory of galleries to tour in virtual reality, you can buy the things you see .
By the way, where is the profit in this
Didn't know that this existed. The pulley system seems a bit weird. I was hoping the pedal would attack to the seat and directly lift it there and it would have an anti-slam technology to it.Check out "FLIPPER - the most reliable and inexpensive toilet seat lifter." The reviews aren't great. That is a great product to improve. And you could also add another foot pedal for the handle. This could also be combined with a great marketing anchor such as star wars, for example, to help sell it. I've decided to take this idea as i'm typing this out, since i'm a mechanical engineer. You better move to dallas and join me as partner
There's a ton of designs already on youtube. They just don't look marketableDidn't know that this existed. The pulley system seems a bit weird. I was hoping the pedal would attack to the seat and directly lift it there and it would have an anti-slam technology to it.
I wish I could move out there. I am curious to how it all works out. Wish I could partner up, but I will definitely point out to other customers about your product "hey I know this person."
I use public restrooms all the time and never touch anything. I use my shirt for the door if needed (paper towel is preferred) while at the toilet I lift the lid real quick with my shoe and flush with my shoe. If someone needs the lid put down, they can use their own shoe. If the sink area is bad, I just don't wash my hands. I'd rather have my germs on me than someone else's. Plus, my daddy taught me to not pee on my own hand so that solves that.
I actually made a prototype of this product -- similar to this:Pretty much the same here.
The product the OP is proposing is going to need to withstand a ton of abuse.
Hey, this already exists since years in Germany.Switching banks is a major PITA.
How about a service that gathers all of your subscriptions, payments, bills, direct deposits, and auto switches them to the new bank?
Got a more fully baked but back of the napkin one.
So I dont know if this is still a hip trend but tiny houses.
Build em and sell em. If you have a barn or warehouse you can go year round , as a solopreneur this is a pretty great ROI for sweat equity.
So im seeing building costs from silly cheap to 12k but average sale price 30 to 40k and up.
First build 500 hours which includes time spent learning things like electrical (according to some blog post I read) but then a team of trained guys can do it in 120 hours. So imagine with me here , your employees dont actually have to be trained homebuilders , maybe for liability you get a real electrician involved but otherwise you can streamline this cheap (working indoors has perks , you can probably scalp good talent who are just sick of being exposed to the elements and waking up at 5am)
So 20k or more for your first solo build , cost you roughly 12 weeks fulltime work. So , depending on your pre existing skillset or hunger for hands on experience (or how much youd make working a second job right now) this might not make sense.
But for a young guy wanting to get some cash for a different venture? 3 month commitment for 1670 dollars a week all said and done? (42 bucks an hour) , might be a great thing to look into.
Got one
Wife was looking st these pillow cases infused with silver , apparently because that makes them antimicrobial you have to wash them "once every 5 years"
Copper alloys will do this as well
So take any existing product and integrate silver in it or brass and then your marketing is just vaguely FDA compliant "germ killing" or something , mark it up 400% and voila , new product
So how about , cutting boards? And tongs , lots of kitchen stuff. Steering wheel covers. Gloves (underwear) , clothes in general (although the pillow case people might have a patent for infusing silver into clothe)
Google auto complete shows sheets and towels already exist. It seems like something with enough traction so that you arent having to completely educate the market but still niche enough that if you could find a legitimate manufacturer it could be a unique selling proposition.
An automatic side-scrolling 8-bit video game where you're a Rockstar that has to kick bad guy's asses and each level features an 8-bit rendition of Heavy Metal songs. Each level will be themed after the song.
I'm so serious about this too.. 8-bit games are wicked easy to program in 2019 - I'm thinking something like Castlevania, just more badass. And he's got a sick guitar that you can charge up and do sick moves on Bad Guys
The boss fight in this level will will be the Puppet Master. A horrible monstrous creature that's controlled by a puppeteer creature guy:
Although I found this comment on the video which is sick:
0:00 - you fell into the boss's lair
0:02 - discovering where you are
0:04 - 0:22 - boss's stats and bio
0:23 - 0:30 - protagonist-antagonist staredown
0:31 - main battle begins
0:50 - protagonist deals great damage
3:32 - boss falls unconscious
3:34 - self dialogue of the protagonist, thinking the battle is over
3:42 - "my job here is done" time to exit the lair
4:46 - echoes from the long and dark hallways of the lair can be heard.. the boss has awakened
5:09 - going back to finish the job for good
5:37 - 5:40 - antagonist does a huge leap and strikes the boss
5:42 - crazier boss battle
6:00 - make a run for it! the lair is about to explode!
6:08 - running through the hallways as explosions happen behind you
6:33 - lair blew up while the boss was inside
6:38 - pre-credits scene
Sick underground Area 51 level:
Game intro:
Sick war level:
The Trooper [8 Bit Universe Tribute to Iron Maiden]
Chill scary graveyard level:
Pantera - Cemetery Gates 8-bit
Anthrax - Caught in a Mosh 8-Bit
Anthrax - Madhouse (8 bit)
Killer Boss fight:
Black Magic [8 Bit Cover Tribute to Slayer] - 8 Bit Universe
Triumphant escape scene:
The Number of the Beast [8 Bit Tribute to Iron Maiden] - 8 Bit Universe
Metallica - Fuel (8-bit) would be like the motorcycle level from Terminator 2 (NES) - NES Terminator 2 - Stage 2 "The Chase"
Pantera - Domination - 8 bit
Pending nuclear holocaust where you have to kick a$$ to keep the bomb from going off:
Megadeth - Rust In Peace...Polaris 8-bit version
End credits after beating the game:
Metallica - Orion 8bit (NES style)
I'm so serious about this.... 8-bits are way easy to make these days... there are literally builders for it. We could Kickstarter it. I wonder how licensing of the songs would work.
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