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All the stupid startup/app ideas I've had so far
Here is the list of all ideas I've had so far but never actually took time to create any of them or go further into details
- Church givings - not sure how it's called, but in Christianity while being in Church a person goes around and asks for the money from people, so people give a dollar or few cents. So some kind of app that does that on global scale for the Church
- Would you do it for a dollar? - I even coded this. Basically person can ask someone else: would you _____ for a dollar? And if other person does it and uploads the proof, he gets the money
- You have a dollar? - As beggars beg in real life for a dollar, how about begging online for a dollar
- iEgg - just selling egg with Apple's logo for a high price. This might not be possible because of the logo, copyrights and shit
- Messaging with push notifications only - nowadays you can reply directly from push notifications. So no chat lists, no list of messages or such. You reply directly via push notification
- Don't meet in person - some kind of dating site that forces you not to meet in person, so everything must stay online
- Stupid people repellent - like some kind of mace or such, if someone annoys you, you spray them or around to repel them
- Alien emoji - regular emojis but with double eyes and green color, like this ::D ::) ;;) They are more strong than regular, so if you type ::D it means you are extra happy
- Social network where everything is fake - fake followers, fake likes. Like a hyper networks, you become popular extra fast and gain followers fast. You get likes and notifications from fake people, boosting your dopamine
- O__________O 4y agoAnything specific feedback/outcome you’re looking for by posting these?
- superdario 4y agoNop, just sharing ideas. THat's all
- theGeatZhopa 4y ago- idea for the travelers by plane: Some system that automatically checks you in for all airlines you need for that travel and all the airlines must handle your luggage Me: What???
- nickfromseattle 4y ago> Church givings Sizable companies are built around this. Pushpay has 400 employees and a combined $100m in funding.
- superdario 4y agoFor real?
- smeej 4y agoPractically every church I've been to in the last 15 years has had an online giving option, and most of them use different platforms from each other, even though all the churches have been Catholic and many of them have been in the same diocese (where you might expect a "best practice" or economy-of-scale-type agreement to have been made that would lead them all to use the same one). This is very widely done already.
- TrueGeek 4y agoAnd tons more. Lots of money in church software.
- josephd79 4y agoI'm not surprised.
- venti 4y agoHere is a German company that created a device where you can donate by putting cash into the collection bag or by swiping your card. You can even change the amount by turning the handle. https://digitalerklingelbeutel.de/klingelbeutel/ https://digitalerklingelbeutel.de/klingelbeutel/
- MarcoSanto 4y agoYeah, that's a valid business. I also looked into that. wWould not mind to colaesce with others who think it could be worth to go to sanctuaries/worship palces and try to establish the service. think St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. St. Francis in Assisi, etc. (I am from Italy, but I guess every country has some sort of shrine where everyone goes, turists included)
- O__________O 4y agoCurious, anyone have any startups they wish existed, but currently do not? _________________ Related, YC’s Requests for Startups: - https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs Past YC Requests for Startups: - https://www.ycombinator.com/past-rfs https://www.ycombinator.com/past-rfs
- suoduandao2 4y agoA couple. Just in the software space: -When I was single, a dating app that uses a gene sample like 23andme produces plus deep learning to predict pairs that will find one another attractive. -Another gene+AI startup, something that analyzes my DNA and suggests a healthy eating plan tailored to me. -Something like the above two, but taking the state of the immune system into account (not sure how hard this would be to implement, but I know it makes a huge difference to the pheromones we like and the food we should avoid) -something like Adnauseum (bots that click ads for you) but positive reinforcement so I can tell an ad I like what it showed me. I keep thinking that if advertisers knew my long-term goals they'd have a relatively more easy time selling me things, the only downside being they'd not be the things their customers would pay the most to move. -Something like Airmule (sell your empty checked-bags space to the highest bidder) but not limited to the Shenzen-LA corridor.
- O__________O 4y agoWow, Airmule offers reduced airfares for the risk of going to prison - would have never guessed business like that would be viable.
- suoduandao2 4y agoI think airmule does very close scrutiny of its importers, which is why it's limited to one air corridor. I'm more imagining a small-business owner putting out a call for something they want to sell in their store, the app user buys it on vacation, and sells it to the store owner after landing. a ratings system like uber or airbnb would likely take care of the bad-actor problem for something like that.
- jzellis 4y agoTithing, it's called in Christianity. You give ten percent of your income (in theory) to the church. This is what's known outside of the religious sphere as "grifting". :-D
- croisillon 4y agoI think it's more about alms than tithes
- GiveOver 4y ago::-D
- jacknews 4y agoIf the VC's (who are in the business of implementing ideas) are to believed, all the value is in the execution/implementation. So you just have to make these ideas real, and profit.
- O__________O 4y agoIf VC’s knew what they were doing, would they tell anyone? 43% of the most recent YC batch were funded based on only an idea + team: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-summer-2022-batch https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-summer-2022-bat... Obviously who is working on the idea is likely bigger selection factor than idea alone, but does show currently unimplemented ideas do have value; specifically YC alone in past batch funded 240 startups at $500,000 per startup of which 43% were at the time only ideas, which is roughly $52 million worth of teams with ideas alone.
- keiferski 4y agoI really like the concept of tithing (broadly, putting 10% of incomes toward a larger project) and wish it was used more generally for taxation, funding projects, local development, etc. The simplicity and “human comprehensibility” makes it much more attractive than other, more complex funding and taxation methods.
- robertlagrant 4y agoGovernment as a set of services you pay towards, some of them optionally, might be an interesting way to get people to vote for new/to maintain things: with their wallets.
- keiferski 4y agoMy original thought was something like: if you make tax rates uniform and easily understandable (e.g. 10% flat rate for everything and everyone) and remove all deductions, exceptions, etc. then you would get less tax avoidance/minimization and ultimately more tax revenues. But I’m not a tax accountant or economist and I haven’t done the math on this. At the very least, the entire infrastructure would be far more transparent and efficient.
- robertlagrant 4y agoOne of the hidden issues of complex tax is the millions spent on pay clever people to either account for it, minimise it, or check it. I'd love to know how much is spent on that that could be otherwise spent on all of that!
- keiferski 4y agoAbsolutely, it would destroy an entire industry. Probably hundreds of billions in costs and a few hundred thousand jobs.
- robertlagrant 4y ago
- newbie578 4y agoHow do you all keep track of ideas? Do you categorize them somehow and store them?
- superdario 4y agoNop, just write them down on phone
- josephd79 4y agoSame but in my notes app. I have a long list of ideas that have been in there forever.
- superdario 4y agoit's usually hard to market and promote
- e61133e3 4y agoAn app that can generate a blog post from the content of a video
- no-reply 4y ago+1. Can probably use captions.
- robertlagrant 4y ago> - Would you do it for a dollar? - I even coded this. Basically person can ask someone else: would you _____ for a dollar? And if other person does it and uploads the proof, he gets the money Sounds like you're undercutting fiverr.com :) > You have a dollar? - As beggars beg in real life for a dollar, how about begging online for a dollar giverr.com? :D
- jakey_bakey 4y agoThese are great. iEgg made me lmao. The social network idea has legs - You could probably turn it into either one of those mafia-wars/adcap style games, or more interestingly as an immersive educational tool to teach tweens not to stake their mental health on social media.
- superdario 4y agoSo more like a game than a network
- nisegami 4y agoThe last one sounds prophetic almost.
- aintmeit 4y agoIt's fate. Imagine playing chess not against people but against fate. I wonder how that would go?
- Xcelerate 4y agoBased on recent progress with stable diffusion, GPT, etc., I'd say the last one is going to possible soon.
- OhNoNotAgain_99 4y agoHow about a deep difusion model, generating a road movie, with a tesla AI trying to drive it, put in a taxi and let people pay for a never ending drive.
- bheadmaster 4y ago> Social network where everything is fake - fake followers, fake likes. Like a hyper networks, you become popular extra fast and gain followers fast. You get likes and notifications from fake people, boosting your dopamine The currently-rampant social networks have already beat you to it.
- superdario 4y agoTikTok only
- boonpod 4y agoThis is an excellent satire. Thank you for posting this, I enjoyed it.
- greenpeas 4y ago> echo $username | sed 's/supe/reta/'
- hackarama 4y agoBetter make sure to -i that so it changes the post
- LittlePeter 4y agothis guy bashes
- redsummer 4y ago
- wsgeorge 4y ago> Church givings - not sure how it's called, but in Christianity while being in Church a person goes around and asks for the money from people, so people give a dollar or few cents. So some kind of app that does that on global scale for the Church My first startup turned into this!
- superdario 4y agoWhat happened?
- O__________O 4y agoIf you click their profile, load the link, it’s linked to on the homepage: https://www.asoriba.com/ https://www.asoriba.com/
- Krisjohn 4y ago"Messaging with push notifications only" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)
- busymom0 4y ago> Don't meet in person - some kind of dating site that forces you not to meet in person, so everything must stay online I might steal this one.
- quickthrower2 4y agoI think the church one is good, maybe it is already done?