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42 pointselysionmind30 comments

Discover hilariously terrible business ideas that probably shouldn't exist. Get inspired by the worst startup concepts, share them with friends, and submit your own dumbass ideas!

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One suggestion (feel free to ignore) is to hide the vote counts until after a choice is selected, just to prevent some sort of bias. But again it's your site, thanks for the fun!

done!

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chind%C5%8Dgu but with the caveat that the Chindougu inventions actually were prototyped.

In the subset of possible physical objects, it reminds me of Halfbakery and Chindōgu.

https://www.halfbakery.com/category/Product

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/10/chindogu-japanese-art-...

This of course leaves out impossible products and services like:

- Tardis

- Unlawful goods and services sales platform, now with physical vending machines for assassination contracts

If enough people are willing to pay, is it truly a dumbass business idea? Because I have seen plenty of premises that I would have WTF-ed over, and yet enough people are paying for it to keep someone gainfully employed doing it.

I think that is the real threshold: not how stupid it sounds, but rather how few people stump up the money to have it done.

I was expecting a list of actual business failures with maybe some facts or history, but it's essentially a joke site.

unfortunately, it was never planned that way :(

it was a result of boredom from day job.

Sounds like you were expecting fuckedcompany.com.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company

I miss FC. That was /. standard reading in 2002-5. Obligatory waves to all who had <= 6 digit user ids and posts back then.

It does look and read like AI-generated ideas. Did you include any of your own ideas?

It got featured in morningbrew.com newsletter somewhere and traffic blew up lol

I have been monitoring google analytics for past 6 hrs lol

Sorry, I didn't understand your answer. Are the "dumbass business ideas" featured on morningbrew.com? Or did you find an article that was featured with the ideas you turned into a website?

It is normal to get a spike for a frontpage HN post; unsure if you added that part as an answer. Or after posting it on HN, did morningbrew.com pick up and post an article about it? I know I am reading into it too much, but I kinda hate vague answers. :) I am asking: Did you create these ideas with AI, or found somewhere, or did you sit down and write them yourself?

People are submitting their ideas and im approving them (i dont generate them): https://snipboard.io/JjyGUh.jpg (current backlog)

about morningbrew, the initial traffic as per GA was from here (but couldnt find the article tbh.. https://snipboard.io/OT3s4X.jpg

I see, thank you. I believe morningbrew people are following HN for juicy blog posts.

i believe they monitor reddit... this was ranking on r/InternetIsBeautiful for a while

This has an aggressive amount of designed-by-AI. Can you turn it down a bit? It's quite visually distracting right now.

I suck! :(

it was just a hobby project...

I did not think of it as over AI generated, it just looks like a fun site with an aesthetic that goes along with that theme. Cool project!

thanks! ^_^

Love it.

If you open up an API for idea submission, I can send you a FIREHOSE of dumbass ideas.

oh man.. dont have the infra for that most probably :P

i’d love it more if they were ideas people actually tried, like quibi!

try it!

would be useful tbh... mine was unfortunately intended to be humorous.

And that juicer, can’t remember the name now. It cost like 400$ or something like thst

Juicero!

A funny idea, I like it

Try one of this, you never know which one will work.

I was really bored 2 days back and ended up creating this.

Out of curiosity, it has 10,000 votes and 100 ideas and was created 2 days ago, which is impressive!