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elysionmind
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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!

A website showcasing humorous and terrible business ideas, encouraging users to share and submit their own.

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Discussion (30 comments)
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doppelgunner
4d ago
1 reply
Try one of this, you never know which one will work.
elysionmind
4d ago
1 reply
I was really bored 2 days back and ended up creating this.
Esophagus4
4d ago
1 reply
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?

elysionmind
4d ago
I know right!

see this: https://snipboard.io/DyxiNm.jpg

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

Philpax
4d ago
1 reply
This has an aggressive amount of designed-by-AI. Can you turn it down a bit? It's quite visually distracting right now.
elysionmind
4d ago
1 reply
I suck! :(

it was just a hobby project...

mym1990
4d ago
1 reply
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!
elysionmind
4d ago
thanks! ^_^
Esophagus4
4d ago
1 reply
Love it.

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

elysionmind
4d ago
oh man.. dont have the infra for that most probably :P
system2
4d ago
1 reply
It does look and read like AI-generated ideas. Did you include any of your own ideas?
elysionmind
4d ago
1 reply
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
4d ago
1 reply
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?

elysionmind
4d ago
1 reply
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

system2
4d ago
1 reply
I see, thank you. I believe morningbrew people are following HN for juicy blog posts.
elysionmind
4d ago
i believe they monitor reddit... this was ranking on r/InternetIsBeautiful for a while
hijp
4d ago
2 replies
i’d love it more if they were ideas people actually tried, like quibi!
akudha
4d ago
1 reply
And that juicer, can’t remember the name now. It cost like 400$ or something like thst
bigfishrunning
4d ago
Juicero!
elysionmind
4d ago
try it!

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

sema4hacker
4d ago
2 replies
I was expecting a list of actual business failures with maybe some facts or history, but it's essentially a joke site.
faster
4d ago
1 reply
Sounds like you were expecting fuckedcompany.com.

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

burnt-resistor
4d 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.
elysionmind
4d ago
unfortunately, it was never planned that way :(

it was a result of boredom from day job.

sphars
4d ago
1 reply
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
4d ago
done!
projektfu
4d ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chind%C5%8Dgu but with the caveat that the Chindougu inventions actually were prototyped.
CodeCrusader
4d ago
A funny idea, I like it
burnt-resistor
4d 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
4d 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.

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