"Million dollar business ideas"

[Born 'N' Raised]

It's late, so I hope I can actually get my concept across...

I've been unemployed for some time and have been working as a consultant occasionally. What would be great is if I could have an office out of the house and away from all of the distractions of family, etc. to actually get some work done. What about an office hotel? A large office space with conference rooms, receptionist, copy/fax equipment, and all the rest of the things you have at a well equipped office. Then you can rent out (daily, weekly, monthly) individual cubicles or offices to small start-up businesses or consultants who would have access to all the benefits of a well equipped office space without the major overhead expense because it would be shared by all the renters.

I've seen something kind of similar to this, but their office spaces are downtown/high end type spaces and overkill for what I envision. I see a lot of empty buildings around right now that would be perfect for this use, but I just don't have the guts to attempt it...

 

[The Oi]

My idea was completely inspired by some bar in Japan that I saw on TV. People would pay money to go downstairs and smash plates against the wall. I want to expand upon that.

You start this business in a high profile, high pressure, high stress city like NYC. You call it Rage, Inc. People walk in and pay a fee to smash objects from everyday life based on common settings.

You'd have the House setting, perhaps even break that down into two things. Living room/Kitchen. You have an Office setting. You have a Store setting.

Basically, each setup is to remind you of the stressful parts of your life. All materials could be supplied by local dumps, etc. You would purchase non working goods like tvs, computers, printers, etc. You could buy cheap things like plates, glasses etc.

You pay so much money to go into a setting and just smash things to your hearts content. Scream, yell, let out all of your rage.

Fuck therapy, just break shit. We all get that urge from time to time. How about being able to pay to do so in a safe setting with no consequences? That's what Rage, Inc will be offering.

The risk of self-inflicted injury or injury to another patron in this place would be through the roof. Did they talk about liability or anything with that bar in Japan? I can't see how the bar could avoid liability here.

 

[DougHeil]

It's late, so I hope I can actually get my concept across...

I've been unemployed for some time and have been working as a consultant occasionally. What would be great is if I could have an office out of the house and away from all of the distractions of family, etc. to actually get some work done. What about an office hotel? A large office space with conference rooms, receptionist, copy/fax equipment, and all the rest of the things you have at a well equipped office. Then you can rent out (daily, weekly, monthly) individual cubicles or offices to small start-up businesses or consultants who would have access to all the benefits of a well equipped office space without the major overhead expense because it would be shared by all the renters.

I've seen something kind of similar to this, but their office spaces are downtown/high end type spaces and overkill for what I envision. I see a lot of empty buildings around right now that would be perfect for this use, but I just don't have the guts to attempt it...

Isn't this already called "The Hyatt" or "stick in any major higher end hotel name"? They have complete rooms set up for any patron to use for their business needs for copy/fax/computer, etc. They rent their rooms because, well, it's a hotel.

 

[The Voice]

While a good idea in principal you are missing some vital points.

1) You are moving one weakness point (i.e. on the plane) to a much more accecible point (i.e. on the ground).

2) The FAA would never allow this. There are only a few airports that have autopilot landing and this is due to the fact that they are very narrow passages (i.e. between two mountains or in a valley of somesort). These airports are equiped with state of the art sensors and the large planes are as well. This technology would take 20 years to put on all planes.

3) Various combinations of #2. The life cycle of a plane is roughly 20 years or so. This means that if you created this technology now it would take atleast 5-10 years (best guess) to prove to the FAA that your technology works 99.999999999% safetly. (Trust me they are not easy to appease). Then you would have to implement various sensors at litterally every airport as well as new technology on every plane. Autopilot is easy. You are flying straight at a constant thrust level. Landing is not so easy...

4) Once the technology is in every plane you pretty much lost a lot of your profit since aircraft turnover is so low.

In my opinion if you had the money (multi millions of dollars) to start up this buisness and make it successful, I'd just tell you to keep the multi millions and dont risk it.

You're forgetting 2 other things.

1. If the plane crashes, prepared to be sued. It's a huge liability
2. The most crashes come from take offs and landings.

Do I really think anyone is going to take my idea and hit the ground running? No.

If someone does, guess what timestamping does for a person? I'll own your ass in court and take over your business. So please, do all the hard work for me. Gogogogogo.

Just because you thought of the idea, doesn't mean you own it. You didn't patent it or do anything. You'd lose in court. You're providing a service and there's not much you could do.

This would be like the first person to think of dog hotels to sue everyone that has a dog camp/hotel.

 

[Man Called X]

The risk of self-inflicted injury or injury to another patron in this place would be through the roof. Did they talk about liability or anything with that bar in Japan? I can't see how the bar could avoid liability here.

It's not like they were smashing the plates around the bar. There was a little brick hallway built in the basement, and they basically smashed the plates down this hallway. They had to wear safety goggles, and I'm pretty sure there was a liability release they probably had to sign. It's been a little while since I've seen the show.

 

[The Voice]

Pretty interesting. Or you could sell videos of people doing drunk shit. I know I always wake up with my buddies and we always think...God Damn! Last night was crazy I wish we had that shit on tape!

The problem is there is no way the City of Columbus (or any city) would let you just put cameras up all over the place. You would probably have to own the land where the cameras are, and that could be a problem.

Isn't this the same thing as "The Real World" minus the house and jobs?

 

[Born 'N' Raised]

Isn't this already called "The Hyatt" or "stick in any major higher end hotel name"? They have complete rooms set up for any patron to use for their business needs for copy/fax/computer, etc. They rent their rooms because, well, it's a hotel.

Yeah, because running your business out of a hotel and having clients come to meet with you there isn't creepy or unprofessional or anything...

 

[McCav's fan]

As for an actual business idea I've had and would actually like to pursue, I was thinking about starting a business that rents out space and tools to work on your car. On some military bases, they have auto shops that you can rent out. They have hydraulic lifts and every tool imaginable that a mechanic would need. For only a couple bucks on hour, I can rent out one of those spaces and lift my car and change the brakes, spark plugs, oil and anything else I want to do. Rather than pay $70-$100 an hour for professional labor, all I'm paying for is the space by the hour and all the parts that I bought. And I don't have to worry about having all the necessary tools at home and clearing room in my garage to work on my car. It's a pretty non-hassle luxury. MWR pays for most of it, which is why I can use expensive tools and a hydraulic lift for only like $3/hour. These shops on base are first come first served, and are used a lot.

Well one day when I was there with my buddy, we started talking about how this would be a great idea out in the civilian world. We could buy some land, construct a building that can house like 6-8 hydraulic lifts, buy all the tools we would need, and hire a lawyer to write up some waiver that the renter would have to sign saying he can't sue us if he hits himself with a hammer or something. We could charge like $25-$30 bucks an hour, or have a membership of $50/month or something. I figure if I have like 8 spots for $30/hour and the shop is open 10 hours a day, if my math is right, I should make like $2400/day. There's no employees to pay (besides maybe like a cashier) and over time the business would eventually pay for itself.

Being raised in Madison, OH where every teenage kid has a fart can on their Honda, I don't think renting out these spots at $30/hour would be that difficult.

It's funny that you said this.... I live on Fort Hood and we have Sprocket's, same thing you just mentioned. My dad has a motorcycle shop up in Ohio and is looking to retire from that, but wants to open up a small garage or something to make sure that some of his employees will still have jobs. I had mentioned this to him and asked him what he thought of doing this for people that want to work on their cars and motorcycles, but he was not too fond of the idea. It was a little more than what he was looking to get into in his retirement years. I still think that this is a great idea and if you do this ,I wish you all the best with it!! Watch out though and make sure that any sign offs or disclaimers that you have are pretty iron clad. That was part of the reason that my dad didn't want to do it, insurance costs and people that might be sue happy. Good luck!!

 

[caf]

Aren't we supposed to go to Mars in like 20 years? Have a hard time believing it would take that long to integrate something like that on an aircraft.

Think of all the commercial planes in flight right now. You would have to reverse engineer the plane an integrate a system that allows this support. A cost no company is going to pay for.

So there goes 10-20 years immediately just for the turnaround on these planes. Not to mention the 5-10 years it would take to create a universal system that is reliable enough for the FAA. Especially at landing. Down drafting is a problem for pilots to handle, much less a computer to identify and make the correct response.

F/A-18 Hornets can land on a pitching deck less than 500 ft long at sea without human input. Can't see how it could be so difficult for an airliner on a flat 14,000 foot runway. I do agree that the FAA is hard to please though.

One word. Military. Non-comparable to the commercial industry. Profit is not in the Military's vocabulary. Milltary aircraft are naturally unstable so their always flown computer aided. I'm not sure on this one, but I am assuming it is somewhat modern, and therefore built unstable for performance.

I could go on and talk about how a flight deck has many more sensors and feedback to the airplane for its landing, but I'm not sure of your aeronautics know-how. I am assuming pretty good based on your post.

 

[QuadrupleDouble]

I've been thinking about this so don't steal my idea.

I want to start a Match.com, but for people with incurable STDs.

My buddy had the idea of calling it StillTryingDating.com

I've gotten positive feedback from everyone I've talked to. It would be providing a service. People with Herpes need to fuck someone, and it might as well be someone else with herpes.

Same with things like AIDS, etc.

My only problem would be keeping ID's secret and confidential. Who wants to put their picture up publicly and have people be like I know that person? I'd have to make it subscription only to see someone's info.

someone with site design hit me up. Let's light this candle

 

[The Oi]

I've been thinking about this so don't steal my idea.

I want to start a Match.com, but for people with incurable STDs.

My buddy had the idea of calling it StillTryingDating.com

I've gotten positive feedback from everyone I've talked to. It would be providing a service. People with Herpes need to fuck someone, and it might as well be someone else with herpes.

Same with things like AIDS, etc.

My only problem would be keeping ID's secret and confidential. Who wants to put their picture up publicly and have people be like I know that person? I'd have to make it subscription only to see someone's info.

someone with site design hit me up. Let's light this candle

There's already one called herpesdate.com or something like that. I know because a friend played a practical joke on me and created several profiles attached to my name.

Plus...I use it all the time. It's how I originally met Max's wife.

It's amazing how difficult it is to come up with something new.

 

[Damage]

My idea is real estate investment related.
1. Purchase an empty lot near the freeway
2. Build a storage facility (good cash flow, little overhead)
3. Have the roof of the storage facility be solar panels
4. Sell back solar energy to utility company
5. ???
6. PROFIT!!

(fine, this isn't anywhere near a "million dollar" business idea)

Not to be Debbie dumbfuck here, but the idea already exists and has existed for quite some time, especially in Europe. In fact, many homes act as their own solar energy companies. It's deemed achieving grid parody. The goal is to be over 50%.
The intentions are well conceived, but if the government truly believes grid parody will consists of 50% of the energy emitted being sent back to the grid, then I have some magic beans to sell.

 

[Urban]

All right I'll share my idea because I'm not smart enough to get past the actual idea stage.

When I go on vacation I hate nothing more than putting on sun screen. It takes too long to put on, smells bad, makes your clothes greasy and stanky, etc. I can only name one good thing about sunscreen and that's rubbing it on the back of ladies.

So anyway my idea is the sunscreen pill. Pop it in your mouth and you're protected from the sun for 6 hours.

I think it's actually in the process of being invented, saw it on the news like 2 years ago but haven't heard anything since. I thought of this 10 years ago so they better send me a check or free sunscreen pills.

 

[KCOTT]

All right I'll share my idea because I'm not smart enough to get past the actual idea stage.

When I go on vacation I hate nothing more than putting on sun screen. It takes too long to put on, smells bad, makes your clothes greasy and stanky, etc. I can only name one good thing about sunscreen and that's rubbing it on the back of ladies.

So anyway my idea is the sunscreen pill. Pop it in your mouth and you're protected from the sun for 6 hours.

I think it's actually in the process of being invented, saw it on the news like 2 years ago but haven't heard anything since. I thought of this 10 years ago so they better send me a check or free sunscreen pills.

Slightly off topic but along the same lines, heard they finally made a pill that would work as birth control for men. It needs to go through the rigorous testing and FDA stuff for a few years before it gets on the market. Who knew they could make a pill that kills semen you create, so I guess anything is possible.

 

[Chardon]

It's not like they were smashing the plates around the bar. There was a little brick hallway built in the basement, and they basically smashed the plates down this hallway. They had to wear safety goggles, and I'm pretty sure there was a liability release they probably had to sign. It's been a little while since I've seen the show.

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