Show HN: Dumbass Business Ideas

[elysionmind]

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!

[sphars]

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!

[elysionmind]

done!

[projektfu]

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

[burnt-resistor]

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

[rekabis]

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.

[sema4hacker]

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

[faster]

Sounds like you were expecting fuckedcompany.com.

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

[elysionmind]

unfortunately, it was never planned that way :(

it was a result of boredom from day job.

[system2]

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

[elysionmind]

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

I have been monitoring google analytics for past 6 hrs lol

[Philpax]

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

[elysionmind]

I suck! :(

it was just a hobby project...

[Esophagus4]

Love it.

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

[elysionmind]

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

[hijp]

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

[akudha]

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

[elysionmind]

try it!

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

[CodeCrusader]

A funny idea, I like it

[doppelgunner]

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

[elysionmind]

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