> Your startup idea won't work It's a free startup idea, if you take it and it doesn't pan out I'll happily refund you the $0 for it. > precisely because of t

> Your startup idea won't work It's a free startup idea, if you take it and it doesn't pan out I'll happily refund you the $0 for it. > precisely because of the huge variety of shapes that you'd need. Your searches would almost always return 0 results. Sure, the risk is either zero results or large amounts of irrelevant results. But it's for seemingly impossibly large search spaces that search engines are the most valuable. It's no coincidence that Google is a trillion dollar company and pressing control or command-f on a web page isn't. Edit: also, while we're poking holes in the idea, the main problem isn't the feasibility of the technology, the main problem is that people who need drying-rack-holder-uppers probably do not constitute a rapidly growing market, which is the other thing Google had going for it.