[HN Gopher] Show HN: Dumbass Business Ideas
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Show HN: Dumbass Business Ideas
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!
Author : elysionmind
Score : 32 points
Date : 2025-11-14 18:18 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (dumbassideas.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (dumbassideas.com)
| doppelgunner wrote:
| Try one of this, you never know which one will work.
| elysionmind wrote:
| I was really bored 2 days back and ended up creating this.
| Esophagus4 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| I know right!
|
| see this: https://snipboard.io/DyxiNm.jpg
|
| It got featured in morningbrew.com newsletter somewhere and
| traffic blew up lol
| Philpax wrote:
| This has an aggressive amount of designed-by-AI. Can you turn it
| down a bit? It's quite visually distracting right now.
| elysionmind wrote:
| I suck! :(
|
| it was just a hobby project...
| mym1990 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Love it.
|
| If you open up an API for idea submission, I can send you a
| FIREHOSE of dumbass ideas.
| elysionmind wrote:
| oh man.. dont have the infra for that most probably :P
| system2 wrote:
| It does look and read like AI-generated ideas. Did you include
| any of your own ideas?
| elysionmind wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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
| hijp wrote:
| i'd love it more if they were ideas people actually tried, like
| quibi!
| elysionmind wrote:
| try it!
|
| would be useful tbh... mine was unfortunately intended to be
| humorous.
| akudha wrote:
| And that juicer, can't remember the name now. It cost like 400$
| or something like thst
| bigfishrunning wrote:
| Juicero!
| sema4hacker wrote:
| I was expecting a list of actual business failures with maybe
| some facts or history, but it's essentially a joke site.
| elysionmind wrote:
| unfortunately, it was never planned that way :(
|
| it was a result of boredom from day job.
| faster wrote:
| Sounds like you were expecting fuckedcompany.com.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company
| burnt-resistor wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| A funny idea, I like it
| projektfu wrote:
| Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chind%C5%8Dgu but
| with the caveat that the Chindougu inventions actually were
| prototyped.
| rekabis wrote:
| 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-resistor wrote:
| In the subset of possible physical objects, it reminds me of
| Halfbakery and Chindogu.
|
| 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 wrote:
| 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!
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