I had a friend who wanted to start a coin counting by mail business. The customer mails the coins in a flat rate package and then you count them and in exchange the people get a gift card to a local restaurant.
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- Flower garden app. Basically a person has a virtual garden as a savings account. Each time they put money into the account the garden grows.
- Green Life nature- grocery store awards program for tote bags. - after researching people’s behaviors I realized that the concept was inconvenient and a waste of time…
Yeah I’m not the brightest tool in the shed…
We’re going to need to do something with coins one of these days.
Beanie baby’s and pet rocks
“Raw water” from a stream in the California foothills.
Hot dogs, but shaped like hamburgers. I asked isn’t this just thick sliced bologna, he did not have an answer.
I’m a big fan of Johnsonville brat patties. They are like brats in the shape of a hamburger patty.
What about hamburgers shaped like hot dogs?
Coworker started a side company with friends purely on the idea of creating emojis and selling them. It was the same emoji but with unlimited sales potential. His marketing was that you could be better than someone else because you had premium level emojis.
A “Jump to conclusions” mat. Its a mat that has conclusions that you “jump” to.
Don’t forget the pet rock. The guy made a million dollars!
One of my friends wanted to start a business selling salt blends that would mix sea salt with fresh herbs. She said “several people have salt blend, but they use dried herbs. So I’ll have an edge using fresh herbs.”
The best part is, the salt will dry out the fresh herbs fairly quickly, so she can cover both market segments.
Did you tell here putting fresh herbs in salt would make them dried herbs?
An online service where you tell it where you are and where you want to go…and then they send a TOTAL STRANGER and expect you to get in the car with them. Who the fuck would do that?
Tinder but for customers to meet companies. LOL.
Thumbtack exits.
I once saw a product where it would wet and warm your razor while you shaved. Basically it was a cup with a heating element. I thought it was lame but it was covered on TechCrunch and was being invested in. And I commented on it that it was the downfall of venture capital. In retrospect, I had no right to publicly judge someone. Not because I believe in the idea, but because someone else did and I trashed it. What might seem like a bad idea might be someone’s ticket, and who’s to say we have any right to judge them? At least they went out there and tried. I think about that product every time I shave. It’s still a terrible idea. You want your razor dry to get a close shave. But if someone finds some business in it or learns something from doing it, who cares? These things are harmless.
Finally someone in the comments who has self-awareness and is able to put aside ego to learn from the past! You will go far in life my friend 🫡
Have cars contained in a small tunnel that drive continuously on a set loop.
And the walls are so close you can’t get out if there’s a fire. Luckily the cars never catch fire…oh wait.
That costs extra.
But it only goes from one side of a convention center to another
Tinder type ride share app. You find girls on this app and say “hey we are going to XYZ bar/restaurant it looks like you’re going to the same area” and then you share a cab and it’s like a micro date. Logistically impossible.
Same guy wanted to set up hidden cameras in people’s businesses with the owner’s cooperation of course and then tell the business owner what they could do better. I realize this is like a consultant but this guy had never owned a business or managed people at all.
At our local college some guys WON a business competition for an idea for a business where you’d need a kayak or some jars of honey hauled to the next town over so you’d post it in this app. Then someone going to that town would find the item needing moved and you’d agree on a price. On the outset, not all that dumb or odd but when you think about the logistics of meeting up, loading whatever the fuck it was, then meeting the next person at the drop point all at a price that was fair for everyone it’s almost impossible on a mass scale. They got all this seed money and basically closed shop as soon as it ran out because they couldn’t generate revenue. My janitorial company cleaned the building where they were gifted office space and those dudes walked around like their shit didn’t stink everywhere they went. Kind of treated us like shit. Funnily enough our janitor company is still running along fine and they’re dead.
some guy wanted to set up hidden cameras in people’s businesses with the owner’s cooperation of course and then tell the business owner what they could do better. I realize this is like a consultant but this guy had never owned a business or managed people at all.
Sounds like you’ve never heard of the consultant who graduated from one of Canada’s to business schools with really good grades
I love Nathan!!!
Same guy wanted to set up hidden cameras in people’s businesses with the owner’s cooperation of course and then tell the business owner what they could do better.
I mean, I could see the idea behind it. Time and motion studies without interrupting the business or needing the consultant to be onsite for a lot of billed hours.
Just had that wee small problem with legality…
I’m actually wondering if it might have worked if they’d worked through a security-camera company, selling it as an additional service. Install the security cameras and be upfront about it, then have a business consultant access the footage via a mini-clause in the security contract allowing the security company to farm their record-viewing out to “approved contractors”, or something.
that’s almost exactly what uship is and it works pretty well
The hidden camera idea - “Bar Rescue” and “Kitchen Nightmares” have these right? So does “Undercover Boss.”
You’re correct. I think the offputting part of the idea was that this dude was more likely to give a google review type critique rather than a John Taffer expert input and plan to step their game up.
The 3rd one sounds identical to Uship which has been around since 03
Wanting to nuke a hurricane… bringing it up more than once when you didn’t get the answer you wanted.
That business exists, but they do it by the barrel,pallet, truckload. It is for the coins from wishing fountains. The coins need to be cleaned and sorted before they can be turned into cash. It’s a real thing.