Show HN: Dumbass Business Ideas

by elysionmind • 8 months ago

42 30 8 months ago

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!

doppelgunner• 8 months ago

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

elysionmind11• 8 months ago

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

Esophagus42• 8 months ago

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

Are those real users? Or some bootstrapped content?

Philpax• 8 months ago

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

elysionmind11• 8 months ago

I suck! :(

it was just a hobby project...

mym1990• 8 months ago

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!

Esophagus42• 8 months ago

Love it.

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

elysionmind11• 8 months ago

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

system23• 8 months ago

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

elysionmind11• 8 months ago

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

I have been monitoring google analytics for past 6 hrs lol

system23• 8 months ago

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?

hijp• 8 months ago

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

elysionmind11• 8 months ago

try it!

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

akudha• 8 months ago

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

bigfishrunning• 8 months ago

Juicero!

sema4hacker• 8 months ago

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

elysionmind11• 8 months ago

unfortunately, it was never planned that way :(

it was a result of boredom from day job.

faster• 8 months ago

Sounds like you were expecting fuckedcompany.com.

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

burnt-resistor2• 8 months ago

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

CodeCrusader• 8 months ago

A funny idea, I like it

projektfu• 8 months ago

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

rekabis• 8 months ago

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.

burnt-resistor2• 8 months ago

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

sphars• 8 months ago

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!

elysionmind11• 8 months ago

done!

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