Scot

i always want to come up with a homerun type idea but never seem to.

i have put some thought into a few things....anyone want to offer an opinion? work together? steal my idea's and hopefully pay me some royalties? steal my ideas and then sue me when they don't work. (remember Steve Martin in THE JERK)

1 - design software that allows any gift card to work anywhere that takes credit cards but at a fee....so i get a $100 gift card from Lowes but decide to use it at Kmart.... costs me 3-4% but i am just happy to use it... somehow whoever developes the software gets 2%???

2 - a business that buys people's cash receipts (stamps, office max, gasoline, etc..) for a small (3%) then sells them for a higher % to a business in that area that way the business that buys them (say for 6%) can save XX% on their taxes by using them.... doh.... ya.. doesn't sound exactly legal but.... ???? so buying and selling 100k worth of receipts makes $3k... maybe not so great....

3 - make / market those funny computer screen covers that make looking at your computer fuzzy from any angle but straight on..... market them in PORNO shops though...maybe they are already doing this??? i don't go to PORNO shops much...

4 - a website that tracks whether doctors are on time or not... kind of like at the airport with flights.... I ****ing hate sitting at the doctor for 45 minutes.....the doctors staff would need to maintain it....

5 - i heard somewhere they let a private company pay for the equipment for the stoplight camera's, then split a % of the income with that Company....I would imagine there is a pile of $ to be made in those. i see people blow stoplights all the time!?

Berner9

I think 5 is your best bet.


keep up the thinking and you will soon be a millionaire.

espelirS2K

I like number 3. The first two I don't get ( ), the 4th would never work 'cause people would start showing up late all the time, and therefore making it worse than it already is, and the 5th, I wouldn't know how to implement

AssassinJN

1 sounds like the best bet to me. Perhaps something along the line of an online auction/trade/store site that only deals with peoples gift cards. So either auction + % fee, buy for 80% or less, sell for 90% etc, or setup trades for a fee.

The redlight camera thing probably won't work that well since people run redlights all the time, except for the ones that they learn have cameras.

Scot

there is a website dedicated to trading gift cards, so that is already out there.... my idea would be to just let people use them anywhere and somehow have the software reconcile what Company gets what $.

cthree

^ That's a business and legal problem far more than a technical one. Good idea but for someone in the banking business I think.

RedY2KS2k

"2 - a business that buys people's cash receipts (stamps, office max, gasoline, etc..) for a small (3%) then sells them for a higher % to a business in that area that way the business that buys them (say for 6%) can save XX% on their taxes by using them.... doh.... ya.. doesn't sound exactly legal but.... ???? so buying and selling 100k worth of receipts makes $3k... maybe not so great...."

Conspiring to commit a crime is a felony in the US...

magician

Is conspiring to commit a misdemeanor a felony?

Scot

i wasn't 100% sure so i posted it...... it would be up to the buyer to do whatever they wanted with the receipts....ahaha... but ya, it would probably be a quick subpena for the records of who bought what and then they would all get audited..

cthree

Discussing something isn't conspiracy, actively planning it is. At least it used to be that way until GWB decided to suppress people's civil rights.

Here's one:

How about designing a website which allows people to exchange business ideas and partner up with others who have something to offer?

Sometimes shit just stares you in the face