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> Nobody ever looks at a person driving a ferrari and thinks, "wow, they must have washed a lot of dishes to afford that car," and yet we still think "if I just wash these dishes hard enough I'll drive a ferrari one day."

I'm saving this quote to tell people this later on.

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the twist is to make others wash dishes obviously

dish-washing is a cost-center, not a profit-center, so really the solution is to cut costs by washing dishes as little as possible :)

Also check out my dishwasher-sharing service Dishdash.

So if for some reason, you guys decide to block my account, I'm stuck with dirty dishes? And then I won't even be able to share with my friend who has working dishwasher? Ouch, that is hard!

And your dishwashing based social media platform WashedUp

We (royal/canandian we) have skipthedishes.com, who have already solved this problem, and were acquired for $110m. :)

It's the difference between "hmm, washing dishes is hard, I will do it better until someone notices and rewards me," and "average person buys less than one dishwasher in their entire lives...but they have to eat every single day...they could skip the dishes altogether!"

Sodexo washes your dishes (etc) and has a $10.6B market cap.

Sodexo sources dish-washing people. They're recruitment / labour hire / logistics. Dish washing (or whatever other actual physical outputs) are just a side effect of their actual business.

I believe Sodexo is a contractor that offers kitchen services, among other things. Companies pay Sodexo to wash dishes.

"Caesar built a bridge" old saying, meaning others built one "for him".

Ideally build a machine to wash the dishes, then build a company to build and sell the machines.

That loses your ability to charge them a recurring subscription plan. Maximize profit, acquire currency.

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