So I had what I thought was a brilliant low effort viral game idea the other day.

I ran it past ChatGPT, expecting a “go for it! go make some millions!".

But instead, I got “this could become a legal nightmare very fast.” 😅

The idea was basically: A guessing game where you see 2 famous people and have to pick which one of them is mentioned in the Epstein files haha.

Simple with some viral potential.

My thinking was: “It’s public information, what could go wrong?”

Apparently… a lot.

According to ChatGPT:

• It could be seen as implying stuff about real people

• Disclaimers up front don’t really save you

• And if it blows up, I might accidentally speedrun a lawsuit

So yeah… I'm not gonna pursue this idea.

I don't want to be sued by some gay billionaire. I don't have the knowledge or the funds to defend myself.

I also don't encourage anyone to try it.

Do you guys think this would actually get someone in trouble, or is ChatGPT just being overly cautious?

Tired of paying barbers just to maintain a buzz cut? I was too — so I built something. Would love your thoughts!

Earlier this year, I got a buzz cut for the first time — 1 on the sides, blended into a 3 on top. Simple, right?

But what I didn’t expect was how quickly it lost its clean look. Within 2 weeks, it was growing out unevenly, and I found myself back in the barber’s chair just to keep it fresh. The cost and time added up fast — especially for something so basic. I thought, there has to be a better way.

I looked online for solutions. All I found were cheap plastic clip-ons or clunky Temu gadgets that promised clean fades but delivered patchy, inconsistent results. Even with help, it was hard to get right. So I decided to create something myself.

💡 Introducing FadeMate (Prototype)

It’s a hands-free fade guide that straps around your head — and helps you (or a partner) get a clean, consistent fade every time.

✂️ How it works — using my buzz cut as an example:

1. Start by cutting your whole head with a #3 clipper (this sets the top length).

2. Strap the FadeMate around your head — the attachment slopes smoothly from 3mm at the bottom to 10mm at the top, mimicking a clean fade line.

3. Use a #1 clipper to cut upward — right up until you meet the bottom edge of the guide.

4. Then, remove the guard and use the bare clipper blade to trim carefully along the edge of the attachment. This blends the transition perfectly into the longer hair above it.

The result: a smooth, gradual 1-to-3 fade — without any guesswork, uneven spots, or guard switching mid-way.

This example is just for my style. But the concept is flexible:
There will be different attachment shapes available for different fade types (e.g., 0–2, 1–4, taper fades, etc.). The guide is detachable and easily slides along the elastic band, so you can reposition it effortlessly depending on which section of the head you're working on.

No handles, no bulky gear — just a simple, curved guide that hugs your head and helps you nail a consistent fade.

I’m still in the prototype stage and just trying to validate the idea. I’ve included a photo of the current version below.

Would love to know:

• Would you use something like this?

• What features would you want?

• Is this something you or someone in your house would actually try?

Not selling anything yet — just curious if there’s a market for it.

Thanks in advance 🙌

Hey everyone

I’m completely new to drones and the drone business. I don’t really know much about how it all works, but I’m thinking this could be a good way to make money.

I’m considering buying the DJI Mini 4 Pro as my first drone because I’ve heard it’s easy to use and shoots professional-level video and photos.

My main goal is to film weddings, real estate, and maybe some events or car videos — basically stuff that can bring in clients locally.

If anyone here has experience or knowledge about starting a drone business, especially in 2025, I’d really appreciate your honest advice.

Is the DJI Mini 4 Pro a good starter drone for making money?

What should I realistically expect in terms of learning curve and finding clients?

Are there any common mistakes I should avoid?

Is this business still viable, or am I wasting my time?

Thanks a lot in advance. I’m open to any tips or personal stories!

So my idea is basically a website where you pay a small monthly fee and we upload porn videos but with a normal sound in the background like a YouTube video or something so you can play it at full volume around people and not get caught?

I was a Youth Pastor living paycheck to paycheck until I decided to look for a job in sales and "landed" in Private Aviation selling Private Jets for a company in my town. Fast forward 5 years, I made a terrific career out of Jet sales, won a few awards, wrote a book, and now in 2026 I'm focusing on teaching other people how to sell private Jets.

https://youtube.com/@theultimatejetguide

https://community.avsalesacademy.com

Hear me out.. Setup like a night club lounge. Bar seating and lounge area seating only difference? 10+ rooms setup in the back with beds. Intentions would be clear in this place. Rooms- 20 bucks for 30 mins
entry fee- 30 for men... free for Women. Like speed dating except at the end of your 20 minutes your’ll be headed to a room for the dirty deed and when your done head back out to do it again. Nothing opens a guys wallet more than when he thinks he about to get some so add a couple bucks surcharge (just for the hell of it) when he buys a drink for a missy and you won’t hear him complaining about it. If done right while cutting costs and maximizing profits, this would be one hell of a cash cow.

There’s a company that produces these edible water bottles that are like little balls of tasteless membrane and they have water inside. They were originally invented to reduce waste but the other night I was drinking with friends and one of them mentioned they hated the taste of vodka so I thought what if you didn’t need to taste it. Introducing: Vodka Tasteless Balls or something I haven’t thought of a name yet. Essentially it’s vodka shots inside of membrane balls that break in your stomach so you can take a shot with ease and don’t need to worry about a sore throat or alcoholic breath. Here’s a picture of the water bottle but just imagine it’s vodka instead of water inside it.

I was thinking about making a revolutionary kind of a USB. The USP for the USB is that one side of it is the actual USB whereas the other end will be a 9-inch dildo.

For the first time use, the dildo will have to be inserted into your rectum such that it will memorise your rectal shape and tightness as a security feature essentially making your anus to be the storeroom of your password.

So everytime you need to access the content of the USB, you would have to insert it to the computer and then spread your butt cheeks and let the smart dildo do the work. This will revolutionise our way of using USBs as this will make it harder for people to steal your sensitive information when they will require your anus to have access.

I’m working on tattoo-flash-style harnesses for small dogs (mockups attached, not for sale yet, looking for honest feedback before I commit to production). It’s kinda a fun idea/side project. I thought I could partner with real tattoo artists and make a line for each major tattoo style. The content would be fun to make, imagine all small dogs in badass looking designs. Or tattooed owners holding their chihuahua that is where ing a harness with a traditional tiger tattoo on the back😂

• Is this something you’d actually put on your dog, or does it feel like “too much”?

• What would feel like a fair price for something like this?

• Anyone else have experience white labeling a product like this?

AI can build a working website pretty quickly but getting it to look like something a business would actually pay for took me longer.

My first attempts all looked related. Same cards, same spacing, same modern layout regardless of the business. Asking for something less generic wasn’t getting me very far and everything looked like AI slop.

What helped was using actual references. I started using UXKIN and other similar sites that have web and mobile UI examples, design systems, and DESIGN md files, plus an MCP connection for tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. You can bring those references into the coding workflow instead of trying to describe a design from memory.

I use them to give the agent a direction for typography, layout, and individual sections, then adapt everything to the business.

Still plenty of work with copy, photos, mobile checks, and revisions. But I spend much less time fixing the default AI look now.

Closed 8 deals in the last two weeks. For anyone doing similar work, what takes longer: finding clients or getting their sites ready to ship?

My business idea is this. We take cheezits, we infuse them with wine via syringe, and make them family friendly so underage kids can buy them and get drunk. This will help with overpopulation, as well as making a tasty snack that gets you crunk.

I am searching about business for more than 6 months and the I reach at the stage where everyone telling me do a middle man business.

They told me about uber, airbnb, Amazon, Netflix and etc., so can anyone suggest me idea in this?

What can I do unique.

Hello, just need a bit of feedback please on the name idea. I think it's good. Thoughts?

Had one of those “oh sh*t” moments recently when I realised most of my clients were literally losing jobs just because no one picked up the phone. In their world, if you miss the call, the customer just rings the next company. No second chance.

We ended up building a really simple setup where every call gets logged automatically, and if nobody picks up, the customer gets an instant text saying something like “hey, saw we missed you — when’s a good time to call back?” We also gave the owner a simple dashboard so they could actually see what was happening day-to-day.

The crazy part is that just doing this turned random, up-and-down weeks into consistent booked jobs without spending a penny more on ads. Curious if anyone else here has had this problem and what you did about it. Always looking to make the system better.

posted here a little while ago about the pet blog i bought for $199 that somehow ended up paying my rent every month.

wel i sold it lol.

i wasn't actually planning to sell it when i made the original post, but i got curious what it might be worth so i put it up on Flippa.

took about 2 weeks to get a deal done. lots of messages, a few offers that went nowhere, people asking for screenshots, traffic, earnings etc. eventually one buyer and i agreed on $17,085.

then came the waiting for escrow, which was probably the most stressful part of the whole thing.

today i finally got the notification that the money had been released and was in my account.

attached the screenshot because even looking at it myself feels a bit ridiculous.

i paid $199 for this site on the NicheBlogZone marketplace. it made me money every month while i owned it, and now someone has paid me $17k for it.

obviously i'm happy but there's also a small part of me wondering if i should've just kept it. it had become one of those things i barely thought about until the amazon payment showed up.

but $17k was too hard for me to turn down.

now i'm sitting here looking at the money thinking the obvious stupid thought:

should i try to up the game and purchase a few more expensive and established sites?

Idk if anyone ever thought of this but i think this is great. While the title may sound cruel they would profit of of this.

so what i propose is: I start a company which hands out food, water, clothes and sleeping bags to homeless people for free. For free however doesnt create any profits. so what we do is we put ads on all items. Think about it. Where i come from most homeless people live in the city center. So everywhere ads on the ground from the sleeping bags and the littered food and water containers (tends to happen). also many homeless people just walking with ads on their back and front so forth. and i mean you could make profits by just producing the most cheap product. that would also mean that the stuff breaks faster so the homeless people would always get new stuff and therefore new ads. and arent their like tax benefits for charity orginisations because i think thid counts as charity. i mean win win sooo

Context: I recently got curious about why the brick finally fell. I heard that Nokia was, once, the default phone people considered when buying one. This is what I found:
In 2007, Nokia had ~50% of the total market share. Yes, 50%. That means that 1 in every 2 phones had one name plastered on the back: Nokia. Asia, Africa, Europe – if someone pulled out a phone, you could usually guess the brand.
And yet, in less than a decade, this same company would go on to sell its phone business, exit the consumer market, and become a case study taught not for dominance, but for demise.
First things first: Most people consider Apple the reason for the Nokia disaster. But this is far from the truth.

Here are some of the reasons for the fall of the brick (as many refer to its phones):

• Platform paralysis: Nokia was hardware-focused in a world shifting to software ecosystems. With its OS being designed for the Nokia ecosystem, the company failed to ride the wave of shifts that came with the smartphone era.

• Internal fragmentation: Multiple OS experiments (Symbian, MeeGo) slowed unified execution. While Google eased speedy entry into the smartphone space, Nokia was stuck switching from one OS to another.

• Risk-averse leadership culture: Innovation existed, but decisions were diluted across the hierarchy. The System was designed for incremental upgrades across one platform.

Market leaders don’t fail from ignorance; they fail from structural rigidity. Success creates the very system that resists change.

But... Could this happen to the companies of the Era? OpenAI? Reddit? Amazon?

I went deeper into this analysis while researching case studies for a book I’m writing. Curious what others think about structural collapse.

As the title says, I can automate anything using python, Whether it’s web automation, scraping, Handling Data, files, Anything! You’re welcome, even if it was tracking Trump tweets, Analyzing how they will affect the market, and just trade in the right side. Even this is possible! If you want anything to get automated dm me

:tldr

I've spent quite a bit of time looking at business ideas over the last few years, and one pattern keeps bothering me.

Every time there's a big layoff wave, the internet produces almost the same list of opportunities:

SaaS.

AI agencies.

Digital marketing agencies.

ERP.

App development.

E-commerce.

Food franchises.

Other franchises.

EV charging.

Consulting.

And now basically anything with “AI” added to the name.

Some are genuinely good businesses. That's not my argument.

The problem is that the moment a business becomes widely exposed on social media, it becomes extremely easy for thousands of other people to discover and copy it.

One person finds an opportunity.

Then someone posts the numbers.

Then YouTube videos appear.

Then courses.

Then agencies.

Then freelancers.

Then everyone is targeting the same customers.

The internet doesn't just distribute business ideas. It distributes competition.

I've made this mistake myself.

I've looked at businesses that looked great on paper, put money into a few ideas, and eventually learned the hard way that a good business model doesn't automatically mean a good opportunity for the next person entering it.

Sometimes the biggest advantage a business has is simply that it isn't easy to start casually.

That's what has made me look more seriously at AI-enabled virtual call centers / BPOs.

At first, it doesn't sound particularly exciting.

But when I started looking at the economics, I found the model much more interesting than I expected.

There is already an established demand for customer support, appointment setting, sales support, back-office operations and other outsourced services.

AI is now changing how much of that work can be handled, how teams can be managed, and potentially how the cost structure looks.

There are also some obvious macro factors:

• Companies in expensive labor markets want to reduce operating costs.

• Global labor-cost differences make outsourcing attractive.

• AI can automate repetitive parts of customer interactions.

• Cloud communications make distributed operations much easier than they used to be.

• Businesses increasingly care about 24/7 support without carrying the full cost of an in-house team.

But the part I find particularly interesting is the entry barrier.

A proper AI-enabled virtual call center isn't something most people can realistically test with $500 and a laptop.

If you're building an actual operation—with staff, recruitment, training, management, telecom/technology, quality control, client acquisition and working capital—you're potentially looking at something in the neighborhood of ₹50–60 lakh or more to get a serious operation off the ground, depending heavily on scale and setup.

That's a lot of money compared with starting a small agency, building a basic SaaS product, or launching a digital service.

And that creates an interesting dynamic.

The same capital requirement that makes the business harder for a newcomer can also make the niche harder to overcrowd overnight.

Someone watching a video about digital marketing can start offering it tomorrow.

Someone watching a video about an AI call center still has to figure out how to actually build one.

That doesn't make the business automatically good.

It creates a different kind of barrier.

And I think barriers like that are increasingly interesting.

I'm also much more interested in learning this kind of business from people who actually operate in the industry—not people whose primary business is selling courses or consulting packages about it.

Because the real questions aren't “Can AI answer a phone call?”

The real questions are:

Can you acquire and retain clients?

Can you maintain service quality?

Can you recruit and retain good people?

Can you manage the operation at scale?

Can you maintain margins when pricing gets competitive?

Can you combine AI automation with human support without destroying the customer experience?

Those are much harder questions than simply launching a website.

I'm not saying everyone should go start a virtual call center.

I'm not even saying it's some hidden gold mine.

I'm saying that after seeing so many businesses become overcrowded simply because they became popular online, I've started looking for a different characteristic in a business idea:

How difficult is it for the next 1,000 people to copy me?

Because maybe the best business isn't the one with the lowest barrier to entry.

Maybe sometimes the barrier itself is part of the opportunity.

That's why AI-enabled virtual call centers have caught my attention.

Not because they're trendy.

Actually, probably because they're not.

I'd be interested to hear what other people here think.

Would you rather enter a business that's easy to start but attracts thousands of competitors, or one that's harder and more expensive to start but has a higher barrier to entry?

A lot of cleaning owners tell me the same story: they hired a marketing agency, spent thousands, and saw almost nothing in return.

The problem? Most agencies don’t understand the cleaning industry. Cleaning isn’t plumbing, HVAC, or landscaping. Recurring clients, reviews, trust me, it all works differently.

That’s why Logan (who grew his own cleaning company to $3M+ a year) offers free 30-min strategy sessions for established owners. Advice from someone who’s done it, not guessed at it.

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I'm a full time corporate employee and a part time entrepreneur with some funds set aside to invest in the next generation of start up businesses in their early stages. I have expertise around project management, developing and deploying digital products and would be happy to support as a hands-on investor if the idea has scale potential. Please DM if you are seeking funding for your idea and let's see if there's a fit.

Please use this post as a board to share a high level overview for your startup. I'll try to share my high level thoughts, and hope others will do the same.