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Shitty Million Dollar Ideas

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This is a place to pitch goofy million dollar ideas that you had in the shower, as you were falling asleep, or during a fever dream. Think of it is as shitty Shark Tank.

The usual rules apply:

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[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Create a cryptocurrency that is generated based on the delta of the volume of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

It only becomes scarce as we lower climate change causing emissions.

[–] Leeks@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Do the math of how long it takes for an omelette to cook. Make a machine with a cook surface long enough that scrabbled raw eggs can be inserted on one side, cooked in a continuous fashion and folded at the perfect time to make the perfect never ending omelette. Buy a chicken farm. Let this run for 8 months, then call up Guinness and get that thing certified! Sell fractional ownership in the “World’s Biggest Omelette” with NFTs hosted on the world’s first “Bock-chain”.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These types of continuous processes really appeal to my brain for some reason.

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In another life I would be a process engineer for a career. Turning batch processes into continuous ones for a living.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

In a class I once took, I remember coming across a continuous-flow process for the synthesis of Ibuprofen. It was truly a thing of beauty.

Edit; found it: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201409093

3 minutes, start to finish. 8 grams per hour.

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Nice! On the other end of the scale I was able to visit the BASF combined chemical plant once, and it is mind-blowing how many pipes there are feeding various chemicals from one reactor to another. They start from naphtha, water and liquefied air and synthesize basically everything else on-site.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

As long as all the advertising for the NFT's contains the power phrase ACT NOW WHILE SUPPLIES LAST I will approve this plan.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

We use AI to create a biomass of 168 billion tons of insects and then have all the governments pay us to keep them away.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A restaurant staffed with pathology experts guaranteed to give you just enough food poisoning to get out of work/social obligations.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

With a guaranteed recovery time to watch your favorite show by nighttime. Nice. Worldwide franchise, we need 300 billion. lets do it.

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

We already have this, it’s called Denny’s.

[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Give a million dollars to the richest man in the world.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Wasn’t there a dumb gofundme for one of the kardashians to make her a billionaire or something?

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

We could double the petition, one funding for each big toe. double profit.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

We scrape the entire internet for any instance of people referring to a "game changer", turn it into an NFT that can only be purchased with raw crude oil.

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They have those four-legged drones that kinda resemble dogs. You subscribe to this service and they give you these BLE beacon flags. The flags have a poop emoji 💩. When your dog poops you post a flag and mark it in the app. A robot dog comes and picks up the shit, and also hoses down the surface by lifting its rear hind leg. When you buy the flags you pay upfront for the service that comes with them. No subscription just removal of feces for $1. That’s a shitty idea.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have an idea to make this idea even wilder. Make the robot dog lift its front hind leg.

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Only if it’s walking backwards.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

We want robot dogs with a good moral compass.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Good burn rate. Maybe we also throw some blockchain in there somehow to increase it.

[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Confetti gun with a built-in shredder that's powered by only $100 bills (and electricity)

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Burn rate needs to come up. Lets raise money for super bowl ads for the launch.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Create a criminal gang to kidnap exclusively rich people, and hold them for ransom.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

If we kidnapped poor people we could increase the burn rate. we could also sell ransom insurance.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

These but for raccoons.

These but for raccoons.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I get a five dollar bill every time I find the words 'criminally underrated' on youtube video posts of hugely popular artists. I will be rich in a week or less.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Go to the videos of 1.5+ years old songs and get one dollar bill every time you find a "still listening to it in " comment.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Engrave the binary representation of a Bitcoin onto a gold bar, bury it somewhere in the desert and sell 1000 pieces of the treasure map for $1000 each. Sort of a Pirate/Prospector/McDonald's Monopoly scheme.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Instead of selling the pieces, lets sell NFT's of the pieces, and hide the actual pieces next to Jimmy Hoffas body.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Brand-sponsored suppositories.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Lets raise 300 billion for an AI Blockchain analysis in Invidias new Simulated reality platform to find what realities there would be for each alternate universe and use it to make stock market predictions in each individual multiverse. Then we market this to consumers as high fashion.