As an entrepreneur, finding that one million dollar idea is hard to come by. And once you have it, it takes a lot of convincing to get other people to see it the way you do. Here are some of the best of those, courtesy of Reddit. Don't steal any of them- they'll know where you got it from and we don't want that on us.
u/iclaimignorance asked: What's your million dollar idea that you wish someone else would make happen because it never will if left up to you?
This is perfect.
Car Gnomes. It's just an overnight mechanic service that picks up your car while you sleep, changes the oil and whatever else, then has it back in your driveway in time for you to go to work in the morning.
"The... the car's been painted red... AND THERE'S A BODY IN THE BACK SEAT!"
"Oh, my bad. I guess I called the Redcaps."
[and now I realize that a standard faerie joke has been ruined forever by politics]
Organic peanut butter is everything.
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Have you ever bought fancy peanut butter? The kind where the oil separates and needs to be stirred. I would like to put 16oz of premium peanut butter in a 20oz jar so I could stir the f*cking sh*t without splashing oil all outside the jar and on the counter.
However this will never ever work because of the a**holes who complain about air in chip bags. "Haha! What a rip-off! This jar isn't even full, how stupid do they think I am?"
YES YES YES TO THIS.
A f*cking Accelerated Reader app for adults/normal people.
I just want to read books and accumulate more points than my friends yo.
Edit: for those of you thinking this is about reading faster, it's not.
AR was a program where you would read a book and take a test on it and get points according to how well you did on the test. At the end of the school year the kids with the most points would get prizes and a pizza party (at my school anyway)
A lot of people hated it because some teacher required it, but after a certain grade it became optional for me so it was super fun to compete every year with the entire school, on my own time.
Hot Cans.
I always thought there should be an insulated can/bottle where you could crack a seal and then shake it so the liquid inside would become hot. It could be soup or coffee or tea. I know there's some "instant heat" products that use iron-to-oxygen like in "Hot Hands" and those heaters in MRE's but I've never seen what I'm thinking of.
edit: Just to clarify, there would an outside insulated container, then a thin layer full of some heating element that's activated by oxygen, then the final product in the middle that would be warmed/heated.
I think it's a neat idea but it would also be fairly wasteful.
Def need that.
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A shower that once you feel you're clean enough, you press a button or something and it starts functioning like a fountain and recycling the water all the time you want so you can relax in the shower under the hot water for long periods of time without wasting large amounts of water.
That's useful.
An allergen indicator strip/stick for food, so people with food allergies can double check their food when eating out at restaurants.
It exists for certain foods, I read about it for gluten specifically but they said they had more in the works. The downside is that it cost about $10-$15 per test.
It exists!
A movie production studio tycoon game. You get to hire actors, writers, schmooze with producers, purchase props and build sets, let the film be recorded then edit the hilarious results. Once it's finished you release it and hope it doesn't bomb in the theaters. It'd be fun if there was time progression, too, so you start in the 1890's making silent films and work your way up to modern cinema.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Movies
This might be what you're looking for.
I'd buy this.
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A cat bed built to fit over a Roomba.
This is actually one of the few ideas here that's just dumb enough to work. Audience: people with robotic vacuums and cats. Quirky enough that people would buy it just to post the videos of their cats sitting on the bed as they get chauffeuered around the room. How do we make this?
Certainly useful.
A computer operating system or a Windows skin for elderly people that completely simplifies using a computer.
You vastly overestimate old people's ability to not understand technology. My grandmother can't even answer a damn FaceTime call. Hint: YOU PUSH "ANSWER," GRANDMA!
They'd get a ton of business.
Cold and flu pack delivery service, specifically on college campuses. Imagine hitting a few buttons and someone will deliver hot soup, tissues, and DayQuil for when you're feeling disgusting.
In fact, some mistakes are so astronomical that they're remembered for decades afterwards, leaving the one who made the mistake a legacy of being a dumba**. Here are a few of them!!!
U/ronjans24 asked: What was the biggest mistake in human history?
Some may argue that the existence of the Universe was a mistake. I disagree. It was clearly Zayn leaving One Direction. But these next few were pretty bad too.
If you do the math, this is also the reason why Hentai exists.
I'll say the wrong turn Franz Ferdinand's driver made that went right in front of Gavrilo Princip.
EDIT: yes I'm aware war may still have broken out even if Franz Ferdinand wasn't assassinated
Imagine you're Gavrilo Princip. The assassination plot you and your friends had been cooking up for about the last year or so has been a complete and total disaster, just a monumental f*ck-up of the highest degree. You're staked out at this deli thinking maybe, just maybe the car will pass by, and by some stroke of sheer luck, it does.
If you're Princip, this is nothing short of serendipity.
Petition to return to the ocean.
Ocean Surf GIFGiphy"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
This was, in fact, a monumental mistake.
Sears not beating Amazon to the punch.
Blockbuster not buying Netflix.
You thought THOSE were bad? Well gear up for their next few, because they are 100% accurate. Except the one about Cats, that movie slaps.
I don’t know sports, but sure.
Seahawks not running it.
I used to wear a Seahawks jersey whenever I took a test because I knew I would pass when I shouldn't.
CATS is great, y'all are just boring.
GiphyThe Emoji Movie.
That live action movie about Cats is also up there.
Very fair point.
Social Media.
Humans are not wired to have that many social interactions and maintain that many relationships. Plus the echochambers it allows people to create for themselves, no matter how conspiratorial or vile their beliefs, means that stupid/evil people are no longer shunned into changing their mind.
Not sure it was worth being able to see what a celebrity had for lunch or what new "dance" your younger cousin and her tween friends are doing.
But in all seriousness, some horrible things may now have happened if the right thing was halted at the right time.
Washington called it.
George Washington Disney GIF by Hamilton: An American MusicalGiphyVoting for people based on what side of the political spectrum they're on. George Washington himself advised against political parties because he thought they would cause too much division in this country. Unfortunately for everyone, he was right.
Big oops on that one.
Barack Obama mocking Donald Trump at the Correspondents Dinner might have led directly to his 2016 run....
"Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than The Donald," Obama said. "And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter — like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?"
Then he turned serious: "But all kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. For example — no, seriously, just recently, in an episode of 'Celebrity Apprentice' — at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around. But you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so ultimately, you didn't blame Lil Jon or Meatloaf. You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. Well handled, sir. Well handled."
This is the best Star Wars and no one can change my mind.
I'll take 'Star Wars Christmas Special' for $100.
That atrocious pile of manure gave us Boba Fett, so without the Christmas Special there won't be The Mandalorian.
Wow, in this article, I openly admitted my love for Cats AND The Star Wars Holiday Special. So maybe my existence was the biggest mistake of all.
ANYWAY, I hope you enjoyed, and I hope you all feel a little bit better about yourself. Because when push comes to shove, at least you didn't accidentally start World War I