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Flopstarter: a platform for bad ideas
- filesystemdude 8y agoSo a platform with only 1% fewer good ideas than Kickstarter?
- madeofpalk 8y agoWhen I saw the link I was hoping it would just redirect to kickstarter.com (like fisteggplant.com), but then I knew that wouldn't be on the HN
- reificator 8y agoI have one, I have one! What if we made Kickstarter, but only slightly worse? We could call it Flopstarter!
- jccalhoun 8y agohttps://www.productrunt.com/ https://www.productrunt.com/ is a site that collects the lowest voted posts from product hunt.
- sitkack 8y agoI wanted one for feuds, shitstarter.com
- tbodt 8y agoDoes this actually take your money? I sure hope not.
- an_account_name 8y agoIt appears to attempt to auth the card, at least with the “known test card” 4111 1111 1111 1111 (which fails).
- chiefalchemist 8y agoThis isn't __that__ funny. If they were more believable and less high school-y it might be worth a revisit.
- carb 8y agoI disagree entirely. These are hysterical.
- madeofpalk 8y agoYou're not funny.
- welly 8y agoWhen you say "This isn't funny", can I confirm you're suggesting that you don't find it funny rather than making that judgement call for all of us?
- themarlzy 8y agoI agree vociferously
- rainbowmverse 8y agoFinally, real innovation.
- cronjobma 8y agoThis was hilarious. I’d be cool to have flopstarter come up with 20 projects every day. I’d go to the website every morning just for laughs. Well done.
- bluedino 8y agoTrustMessenger, “a chat app that sends every message to your significant other”, sounds funny, but there is actually a market out there for accountability software. In one example, your browser history is sent to a third party (or sponsor) for review.
- afandian 8y agohalfbakery.com for the millennial generation
- Kaibeezy 8y agoI miss Regretsy
- reaperducer 8y agoBut with an interface that's five million times better. Half-bakery is impossible to navigate and one-word descriptions are worthless.
- cobbzilla 8y agoTruth is stranger than fiction; With regards to [1] I'm pretty sure drinking "raw" rainwater is now a thing and multiple real companies exist in this space, much to the chagrin of the FDA. [1] http://flopstarter.com/cloudfallenwater/ http://flopstarter.com/cloudfallenwater/
- zerostar07 8y agoisnt that dangerous?
- Introvertuous 8y agoummm yes.
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- swang 8y ago(un?)surprisingly the guy who founded juicero is now in the raw water business.
- reaperducer 8y agoIn some places, like Colorado, harvesting rainwater is actually illegal because the groundwater table needs to be replenished.
- cobbzilla 8y agowell then there's a whole green-field market in Colorado, since they can't get their own, right? /s
- jkestner 8y agoThese are funny but only bad ideas. http://kickfailure.com http://kickfailure.com has some bad ideas with spectacularly bad execution as well. And they're real. Truth is stranger than fiction. I would definitely buy a potato skin jacket.
- cuddlypsycho 8y agoReminds me of that eccentric Japanese inventor with the silliest inventions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjuCwnoNWQw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjuCwnoNWQw
- cuddlypsycho 8y agoKenji Kawakami
- api 8y agoSome of these are actually good ideas that would sell. The Mort clothing line would be a huge hit in the pomo shock art crowd.
- rootw0rm 8y agoI read that as The Morty clothing line and immediately went to the site. Only slightly disappointed.
- lapnitnelav 8y agoIt would make a killing.
- matte_black 8y agoThe timeless watch would actually be very cool. A great accessory for reminding you to be in the moment.
- JepZ 8y agoAnd you wouldn't have to recharge it on a daily basis ;-)
- voiper1 8y agoThis already exists. here's a childish version of one: https://www.amazon.com/Now-Watch-Present-Moment-WristBand/dp/B01M35R5KA https://www.amazon.com/Now-Watch-Present-Moment-WristBand/dp...
- c22 8y agoWhen I was a kid I had a cool analog watch made of wood that I could just spin the hands around to wherever I wanted. Now I have a worn out self-winding watch which loses 5 minutes/hour that I wear when I don't want to know what time it is.
- xander2011 8y agoNice to see a lighter side on HN sometimes. The satirical nature of the site reminds me of when I fell for marketing tactics displayed there.
- icebraining 8y agoReminds me of the http://www.stupidhackathon.com/ http://www.stupidhackathon.com/
- sitkack 8y agoHackathons should be a place for outlandish ideas that otherwise wouldn't get exposure. As it is, most hackathons are quick PoC so the C-levels have some projects to choose from.
- detaro 8y agoThe transformation of basically all hackathons from "do something fun or interesting" to "product prototype competition for prizes" is sad. Interestingly, the term "hackday" seems less taken over by that madness.
- setzer22 8y agoI couldn't agree more. The hackathons I've won something in were the ones I enjoyed less due to the huge amount of marketing vs actual technology involved in the projects.
- BoppreH 8y agoFor more abstract inventions, see also https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/
- twic 8y agoYou kids and your sub-reddits! The ancient ones of the web have been collecting bad ideas since the 20th century: http://www.halfbakery.com/ http://www.halfbakery.com/
- bufferoverflow 8y agoFlops aren't necessarily bad ideas. Some startups fail due to a lack of funding, bad execution, bad leadership, bad teams, burnouts, legal mishaps, patent trolls, fatal bugs, etc.
- iamgopal 8y agoAnd stupid bad timings. Like when you do doctor appointments and drug home delivery and every thing in between on mobile app in 2008 in India. Lesson learnt, never bet on technology or platform whose working future or adoption you can not control.
- jpindar 8y agoThere are many mobile games that are the equivalent of Park Assist Auto, and they seem popular enough.
- rwmj 8y agoIndeed, Densha de Go is one of my all time favourite games, and it's basically driving a train as precisely as possible.
- reaperducer 8y agoI picked up about five of these a few years ago in Japan. I'm terrible at it. In two weeks of playing I think I got it right maybe once.
- mikestew 8y agoAm I the only one slightly annoyed by the fact that the cover of Park Assist Auto does not depict parallel parking, as mentioned in the description?
- ww520 8y agoThere was the fuckedcompany website for all those failed companies. There are lessons to be learnt from all these.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 8y agoWhat was the best lesson in your opinion?
- smt88 8y agoMine were: 1) start with a market you have access to, not with an idea, and listen to what the market asks for; 2) hardware is 5x-10x more expensive than you expect
- natch 8y agoThe undefeated champion in this category is this guy: https://www.amazon.com/What-World-Needs-Now-Daydreamers/dp/B00D5FEOWW/ https://www.amazon.com/What-World-Needs-Now-Daydreamers/dp/B...
- c22 8y agoI always liked 101 (Un)useless Japanese Inventions https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0393313697/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1526234288&sr=8-2&keywords=101+useless+japanese+inventions https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0393313697/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=...
- reaperducer 8y ago$2,317.50 for the paperback. Probably reason enough to disable one-click ordering.
- natch 8y agoOuch! The HN comment editing window on this has closed for me, but here's a better link: https://www.amazon.com/What-World-Needs-Now-Daydreamers/dp/0615630413 https://www.amazon.com/What-World-Needs-Now-Daydreamers/dp/0...
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- reaperducer 8y ago>Bees-as-a-service This is a thing. It's actually a huge industry and growing with all the problems we're having with bees these days. Billions of bees from Utah (The Beehive State) are rented out to farmers in California each year.
- luckydata 8y agoThis is redundant, Kickstarter does a great job of being a platform for bad ideas.
- ada1981 8y agoI like the idea of Natural Death Meat. There are some farms that actually do this. They milk the cows and when they die they are eaten.
- brod 8y agolol, yeah they do but this is the lowest grade of meat and typically graded for non human consumption.. best beef is fit / healthy and knocked quickly.
- ada1981 8y agoI’m vegan. I’m confused on the actual risk for meat eaters and if they could really tell the difference.
- ddorian43 8y agoWell for starters the meat absolutely sucks in taste.
- ada1981 8y agoI don’t eat meat at all, so this would be an option for people who are ethically against meat but might feel they “need it” for health.
- sitharus 8y agoYou can quite easily. Meat from a natural-death cow will be tougher - age and movement makes muscles fibres stronger. Also a dairy cow will be much leaner than beef cattle, a consequence of much energy going to milk production instead of fat storage. The flavour is also stronger and more gamey. Another consideration is the breed - different cattle breads are used for meat and dairy. Most beef cattle are cross-breads between dairy and beef stock. Dairy breeds are less muscular and consequently have lower meat yields. There's nothing dangerous about it, just unpalatable to most. In the regular market most goes to pet food.
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- josu 8y agoI think that a $600 wireless juice machine, that all it does is press pre-made juice packages could belong there.
- perfectshade 8y agoFor giggles, I have a novelty twitter account that advertises this sort of enterprise: https://twitter.com/MakingQuillions https://twitter.com/MakingQuillions
- Grue3 8y agoHonestly, I can see AnkleHub being popular.