Show HN: Dumbass Business Ideas

(dumbassideas.com)

33 points | by elysionmind 13 hours ago ago

29 comments

  • projektfu 10 hours ago

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

  • sema4hacker 10 hours ago

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

  • sphars 8 hours 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!

  • Philpax 11 hours ago

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

    • elysionmind 11 hours ago

      I suck! :(

      it was just a hobby project...

      • mym1990 10 hours 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!

  • Esophagus4 11 hours ago

    Love it.

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

    • elysionmind 11 hours ago

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

  • hijp 11 hours ago

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

    • akudha 9 hours ago

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

    • elysionmind 10 hours ago

      try it!

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

  • system2 11 hours ago

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

    • elysionmind 11 hours 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

      • system2 9 hours 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?

  • CodeCrusader 10 hours ago

    A funny idea, I like it

  • burnt-resistor 10 hours 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

  • rekabis 10 hours 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.

  • doppelgunner 12 hours ago

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

    • elysionmind 12 hours ago

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

      • Esophagus4 11 hours 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?