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I pitched a homebuilt Raspberry Pi and AWS IoT automation solution for my weed guys grow op.
Now the fucker wants me to actually build it and to pay me in weed.8 -
Deliberately disgusting chocolate. Looks like normal chocolate, but with all the sugar removed and possibly some additives to make it taste even worse. Designed so that you can give it to kids, and they'll never want to touch chocolate again.12
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A smoothie subscription service for offices. Although the name was “Smoother Things” which I still like 😭4
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"I have a great idea for a messaging app.
But I can't tell you what it is until you agree to make it for me, I can't pay you right now but I'll pay you back when we make tonnes of money!"
My startup idea: you create apps for people with bad ideas and the fees on a 1 year 'loan' with high penalties for failing to pay. Fair right?3 -
Concierge shopping service in 2001. You input what you want and your budget and a human concierge will research and get you the best deal with coupons, rebates, etc. The idea was good before e-commerce algorithms got better. Before that you had to find good prices across numerous sites on your own and it was super tedious, hence my idea. Also, it wasn’t scalable as it depended on humans way too much.
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An app to find port-a-potties (or port-a-potty’s?) near you... more of a joke tbh but I did consider it for a second.3
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During my high school days, I pitched an idea of an Antivirus. That would “hack” any origin computer that was being used to hack the destination computer.
Another idea I had was to deploy a virus, which was meant to be harmless, and would stay dormant while it replicated itself. Once in enough systems, I would “command” it to delete a certain photo from every computer that would ever exist.
The second idea came to me after the bullying of Amanda Todd.2 -
I recently learnt Photoshop n Illustrator, so I thought I could make some engaging content for kids(given my CS background, basically coding books), I mailed my professor n asked If he could help me to design coding curriculum for kids so that I could publish books and we both would earn out of it :D2
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Well it's not exactly a startup idea but something that I and my team built during my first-ever hackathon.
The theme was to build some tools for developers to improve their speed and be more productive.
In our team we were some bunch of students who just knew how to build a basic front end and a little bit of backend and we came up with an application that lets developer query any command line shortcut through his voice and the website will return the keyboard shortcut for that. For example the developer can ask what is the shortcut for splitting the view into two halves in vs code and the website will look it up in database and give back the shortcut
Now when I look back it feels so funny. I still remember that the judges gave us a funny look but they appreciated our efforts as we were too young to be there.. lol
btw If anyone is curious about the project it is present here ..
https://github.com/LaurenAssistant/...