Your ideas are worthless, and I'm here to prove it
Every day we see threads here where people want advice but are afraid to talk about what they're doing. It's completely understandable for you think that your idea is special and no one else has ever had it before, and that if you ever expose it to the light of day you will remain poor forever while getting Zuckerberg'ed by someone else on this forum.
But it's wrong. I guarantee you that someone else has had your idea before you. Lots of someones probably. It's not about the idea, it's about the execution.
More importantly though, if you really want to give a new ventuer the best chance to succeed you need feedback. And if you're asking for feedback and/or advice you need to put the idea out there for people to see.
It understandably takes a while for people to believe this, and it's damn near impossible to beat it in to their heads with just words. Either you believe A or you believe B, and in my experience only watching what happens when people are open versus when people are closed can change someone's viewpoint.
So for the next month or so I'm going to post all kinds of ideas in this thread. Some of them are things I've though about for a while (I have an ideas book on me at almost all times, and I recommend you do it too) and some of them are new ideas that I'll come up with over the course of this exercise. Truthfully, while I hope and expect a lot of posters to get something out of this, it is as much for me to keep thinking of new things as it is for you to see that no one is going to steal them and keep you from success.
I'm not going to say that my ideas are as good or better than anything you guys are working on, that would be ridiculous and pretty conceited. In fact my ideas will almost certainly be worse on average. But I bet there are one or two good ones in here, at least good enough to illustrate my point.
And I bet at the end of this we'll have tons of discussion about these, have a better understanding of a bunch of different markets, and NOT A SINGLE IDEA will have been implemented by a 2p2er here in a way that would preclude me from making money on it (if we decide a market exists).
So that's what I hope is going to happen here. I'll post business ideas, hopefully we can get lots of feedback and discussion on them, and no one will be able to corner the market on me 😀
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The Scariest Haunted House Ever
My haunted house would be nothing more than a small bathroom, which is dark when the customer enters. The customer is then instructed to turn on the light switch. When the light comes on, they will realize they're standing in front of the mirror in this small bathroom. What they see in the mirror is an image of their mother (for female identifying people) or father (for male identifying people) at whatever age they are now. So for example, I'm male age 42, so I would see an image of my dad as he was at age 42, but wearing the same clothes as I am right now and perfectly mimicking all my movements and facial expressions, and saying whatever I say. The customer will then run away screaming "oh my ****ing god I've become my mother/father!!!!!!!"
I'm not exactly sure how the tech will work. I'll hire some nerds to do some **** with AI and facial recognition. The only downside I can see is that there could be many suicides and dead customers can't come back next halloween.
I'll start a winery in Champaign, Illinois. I could very honestly and legally market it as Champaign.
An AI chatbot that doesn't stroke your ego and tell you how brilliant your questions are. In fact, it does the opposite. It tries to pick fights with you. It jumps on every inconsistency and logical fallacy in whatever you say. It does deep research to counter all your beliefs. It's like a chatbot that you spar with to get better at arguing on the internet.
I'll start a winery in Champaign, Illinois. I could very honestly and legally market it as Champaign.
I used to work for an UoI CS professor. Your idea is not new...
But isn't there a difference between an idea and executing an idea?
I think that's were the OP is misguided.
For example, Lego (TM) doesn't have a patent on any of its products, and yet they are the biggest tire manufacturer in the world...
An AI chatbot that doesn't stroke your ego and tell you how brilliant your questions are. In fact, it does the opposite. It tries to pick fights with you. It jumps on every inconsistency and logical fallacy in whatever you say. It does deep research to counter all your beliefs. It's like a chatbot that you spar with to get better at arguing on the internet.
Well, depends on which one. They're all different equations. The one that Josh launched is clearly the best because they don't need users. They sell the hardware.
