Online business ideas for the taking

Haha noooo I didn't go there. I just saw it was registered and figured someone just bought it now.

....but now I'm curious....
 


Here is a great one, there is no online payment processor here in thailand that has trust in the people.

So all purchases online are done like this

  1. Make Order
  2. Confirmed and you get account details
  3. call your bank and make a manual transfer to the account or option 4
  4. walk your ass down to the machine next to the ATM
  5. wait for money to arrive into account 24 hours
  6. Payment confirmed and order made

So you can only guess how many sales just falls trough and money being lost.

Create a payment processor that people can trust, now go ahead so I can use it later ;)


-Micha
 
the payday loan kiosk was my idea I shared with Grindstone a while back and also to a few people at ASW08.

thanks for outing!
 
onkelmicha said:
Here is a great one, there is no online payment processor here in thailand that has trust in the people.

So all purchases online are done like this

  1. Make Order
  2. Confirmed and you get account details
  3. call your bank and make a manual transfer to the account or option 4
  4. walk your ass down to the machine next to the ATM
  5. wait for money to arrive into account 24 hours
  6. Payment confirmed and order made

So you can only guess how many sales just falls trough and money being lost.

Create a payment processor that people can trust, now go ahead so I can use it later ;)


-Micha
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You can do step 3 both online and via mobile phone. The receiver can get an SMS message when payment hits their account which is usually within a few minutes. Not as clean as a shopping cart with a single page checkout but it isn't that bad.
 
This may be the only thread I ever officially "like" with those ghea buttons.

ANOMOANON said:
You can make a million dollars mowing lawns if you do it long enough.
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  • GPS powered lawnmowers that get pre-programmed by the owner where to cut. One mower can knock out an entire neighborhood.

  • Crowd Automoting ... but this is far from unique which means it's about to become a reality.

  • Someone will take this one ... a mobile app for brick and mortar store's customers that alert them when they're in the area. coupons can be sent, or your favorite beverage can be poured in advance of you coming in. Consider this with starbucks and a morning coffee auto rebill.

  • A fucking restaurant where I can kill the animal before I eat it, some days you've got to let the led out.

  • A url shortener specifically for sourcing papers. Should have a digg~ish toolbar and caches pages so name="jumphere" tags can be placed and specific quotes highlighted. Got lots of blue hat link laundering ideas behind this one.

  • bacon flavored air freshener
 
erect said:
  • GPS powered lawnmowers that get pre-programmed by the owner where to cut. One mower can knock out an entire neighborhood.
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That shouldn't be hard to do at all. They already have remote controlled robot mowers. Some a freakin' awesome looking powerful brush eating monsters.

But how big is the market for something like that?
 
lukep said:
Here's one for you programmers:

A Micro-task rentacoder... Based on an IM service. Think of fiver but far more instantaneous.

It could all be done through a client app that sits in your taskbar. You sign in and out like Skype, and you have a rating system like iTrader... Then you can sit there all day and either place micro tasks or take micro tasks of any type.... Link building, video making, fuck, even dog walking if you include geo targeting. You could literally have someone do your task 10 seconds after you place it!

Payment through paypal or the like, and of course the house keeps a small percentage.

Simple yet uber powerful. Enjoy.
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Wassup Luke, gonna get back to you on that Paul thing, promise.

This is an interesting idea and I was just discussing almost the exact thing with a friend recently.

The way I see it, as technology gets better and better, there will less need for more traditional businesses with an office and physical location. A lot more stuff will be crowdsourced in the manner you suggest. Work could be doing small tasks really well for lots of people globally. Building on knowledge sharing and knowledge buying in micropayments like Facebook apps. Take it even further, with next gerneation Siri voice recognition software. You just ask your smartphone for something and it instantly crowdsources it and reports back. You may check in for random tasks while on the subway and doing a small highly specialized service for someone.

Lots of possibilities using technology and knowledge sharing getting faster and faster. It could really blur the traditional view of working and business.
 
geomark said:
That shouldn't be hard to do at all. They already have remote controlled robot mowers. Some a freakin' awesome looking powerful brush eating monsters.

But how big is the market for something like that?
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grass grows pretty much everywhere and nobody actually enjoys cutting it. I'd say it's big enough.

There are some pretty cool youtube videos of guys who set up lawnmowers with bumpers that, when contact with something is made, they randomly pick another direction. They're interesting but it's an assumed confined space ... not going to scale.

I was thinking something more like this (@12-14 minutes, not the flying robot part although it's cool), which increases the degree of difficulty. However, with $20 computers hitting the market, a hybrid of tech might be doable
 
geomark said:
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That shouldn't be hard to do at all. They already have remote controlled robot mowers. Some a freakin' awesome looking powerful brush eating monsters.

But how big is the market for something like that?
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Might want to look into a largish liability insurance policy to go with that business.
 
eliquid said:
the payday loan kiosk was my idea I shared with Grindstone a while back and also to a few people at ASW08.

thanks for outing!
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It seems kiosk isnt a very well used term around here. A quick search brings up this:

http://www.wickedfire.com/enlightened-members/143595-4k-post-celebration-vol-iii-q.html

eliquid said:
1. Open a payday loan store near a milatry base. Hold no money. Have a kiosk the user fills out that simply takes them to a webpage to fill out 2 payday loan offers. money is deposited to their acocunt, you collect CPA and possibly their info too while holding none of the risk.
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It seems I remembered it differently. Damn good idea though
 
erect said:
  • bacon flavored air freshener
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Reminds me of the Wake N' Bacon alarm clock on Shark Tank, lol

Wake_n_Bacon.jpg
 
geomark said:
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That shouldn't be hard to do at all. They already have remote controlled robot mowers. Some a freakin' awesome looking powerful brush eating monsters.

But how big is the market for something like that?
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It's kind of weird. There is all kinds of research, and prototypes, and even news articles out there surrounding the idea of a GPS enabled lawn mower.

However, they are all from 2005 and 2007 etc, and really dont seem to have taken off at all?

It's like a Roomba for your lawn | Crave - CNET

Must be a reason? Obviously the price point being 3k or so....but there must be a way to bring that down, or isnt there?
 
Had the idea a 10 years back, custom wallpaper. Just upload a big enough pic and we will print to your size.

everyone doing it now
 
DrewClement said:
It's kind of weird. There is all kinds of research, and prototypes, and even news articles out there surrounding the idea of a GPS enabled lawn mower.

However, they are all from 2005 and 2007 etc, and really dont seem to have taken off at all?

It's like a Roomba for your lawn | Crave - CNET

Must be a reason? Obviously the price point being 3k or so....but there must be a way to bring that down, or isnt there?
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Probably too much variation in most laws along with the need to add serious sensors to ensure not running over inured animals, toys, or other objects that a gardener avoids because they become projectiles once flung by the mower blades.

That would be the top hurdle - you need to identify possible projectiles and then remove them.

You should do what I have done. Connected weed eater line to my sprinklers and set it up so I can use water or compressed air. With water they spin slowly and water the lawn. With compressed air they spin quickly and the attached weed eater line extends out so that it mows the lawn. Saves me a lot of time.
 
REIMktg said:
Probably too much variation in most laws along with the need to add serious sensors to ensure not running over inured animals, toys, or other objects that a gardener avoids because they become projectiles once flung by the mower blades.

That would be the top hurdle - you need to identify possible projectiles and then remove them.

You should do what I have done. Connected weed eater line to my sprinklers and set it up so I can use water or compressed air. With water they spin slowly and water the lawn. With compressed air they spin quickly and the attached weed eater line extends out so that it mows the lawn. Saves me a lot of time.
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Fair points to say the least. Also had a bit more of a think on it, and realized that the [FONT=Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial] other issue is that the cost of maintaining gps accuracy through differential gps is costly.

Even with d-gps you get accuracy within 10cm. I dont know about everyone else, but I would get super pissed off by a 10cm strip of lawn that wasn't cut....[/FONT]
 
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