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- hipnerd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+140If you have HIV, and you want to have sex without killing someone, dating another HIV positive person is your only choice. I understand the logic, although I had no idea the market was that big.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+80Actually those two things aren't mutually exclusive.
Case in point: Jessica Simpson - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+54"I understand the logic, although I had no idea the market was that big."
It's not just positives, but there's also a really strange subset of the gay population who actually go out and *try* to get HIV/AIDS. A site like that just makes it easier for them.
(No. I'm not trying to start ***** or making this up. Google it. There's a bunch of articles about it.) - strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -4/+47There's your gimmick! You have no gimmick.
- evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34How is "teenagers are horny" marketing genius?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29In fact, here's one.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939950/bug_chasers - caselogic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25maybe they aren't looking for sex.
- ridgelawrence, on 10/12/2007, -8/+27"7. PositivesDating.Com
How would you like to go on a date with an HIV positive person? Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin thought that someone would, so they created a dating site for HIV positive folks last year. Projected 2006 sales are $110,000, and the two hope to have 50,000 members by their two-year mark." - Rayonic, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24There are many different strains of HIV, some more deadly than others. Some strains kill faster, or are more resistant to HIV-impeding medications.
Of course, most people think all HIV is the same, so I understand how that dating site became popular. - Rayonic, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24@ strictnein :
I just patented that joke. Anyone who uses it owes me 25 cents.
(That's *my* gimmick.) - HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Everyone has a gimmick except me.
- lazyrussian, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20@brettotte1 that is a sick yet (somewhat) oddly logical way of looking at it.
- Swimming_Bird, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Myspace started out as a pretty good idea. to make a place where independent bands could host their music and interact with fans.
- mrthebunny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Here's an alternative :
Santa Clause
North Pole, Canada
H0H 0H0
Write to Santa Claus, he will answer every letter personally.
This service is made by volunteers at Canada Post. It has existed for years. And it's free (and of course it works in french too - Pere Noel, Pole Nord, Canada, H0H 0H0). - Novagenesis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16She may be "dumb" but the IDEA of her -isn't-. In fact, as much as I hate all these "hot-stupid chick" pop musicians, they were created by a level of marketing genius I couldn't hope to achieve.
- xXShadowstormXx, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17"Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas that Made it Big Time"
How can there NOT be a MySpace? - screwzluse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The real question is "is an idea dumb if it works?" I would say that the million dollar homepage was ingenious. You may not like how easily he made a million dollars or anything but he did it with a simple and easy to implement idea. To me, that makes it a smart business idea. I may not like how easy he managed to pull it off but he did, so kudos to him.
- finkployd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Digg has ads?
- MuleD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8What do you mean Santa Claus Service????
SANTA CLAUS answers my letters I send him :( - buryme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Of course it's not in spell check! Get with it, it's not the internet, it's the series of tubes.
- 022A, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The million dollar homepage is the only thing that I would really call "dumb". I consider that a "fluke" where a perfect storm of publicity was created.
Everything else is legit. For the most part, people identified unserved niche markets and moved in.
What's truly *dumb* are the people who decide to jump into crowded markets where they offer nothing over 1000 established competitors. - brettotte1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Not necessarily a biz idea, but a dumb internet idea that succeeded is the whole PAPER CLIP for a HOUSE crap! (P.S.) internet isn't in the spellcheck!
- evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I demand that "H0H 0H0" be translated to french as well!
- pbuschma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Almost all of the ideas on this list were *smart* ideas. They are mostly divided into consolidating a fractured consumer base (Antenna Balls, HIV, etc) or first mover advantages (milliondallarhomepage.com). This list is full of *ideas* that if applied to other products may very well make more millionaires. Many ideas did sound stupid once, like selling bottled water was considered ludicrous not a lot more than 100 years ago.
- ilitirit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Funny story: In my final year at college someone in our team decided that it would be a great idea to start a site similar (actually exactly the same) as PositivesDating. Everyone, including me, thought it was an absolutely terrible idea. If we only knew...
I'm going to mail her that link now. - D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I should make the "Jump to Conclusions Mat" website. I could make a million dollars! And then do nothing.
- bemes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Does anyone else think the HIV site might have membership issues in the future?
- wurzelgummage, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4He got himself and his stupid idea on the TV news on several occasions. This is where the secret lies.
- Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5is there a similar site for those with syphillis?
- KevinWhite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yup, the Canadian Santa Claus service is great, and they don't just answer in english and french:
"Approximately one million letters come in to Santa Claus each Christmas, including from outside of Canada, and all of them are answered, in the same languages in which they are written."
from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H0H_0H0#Santa_Claus - xAXISx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4...and I'm sure this guy is richer than them all. After all, he seems to know what ideas are good or not, he must be a millionaire.
- brettotte1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Tattooing ads on your body!
Selling "ghost cane's" on ebay! - caryfields, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Right...like that guy that invented the Pet Rock.
- MicroBerto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3NICHE MARKETING, my friends. Works wonderfully on the net.
The internet is where you can have a goofy hat store, or god forbid, a balls on your antenna store. Run it cheap, not have to have store space, and you and your wife run it and there you have it.
This is where many internet startups went wrong. They tried to take on walmart all right away. Screw that, the trick is to take a small niche of things where you can ONLY get such things easily on the net. - Pile, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11I don't see anything dumb about any of those ideas. They are all a bit clever. Ok, the Doggles is stupid, but that's the power of marketing.
I look at something like Princeline.com and I think, "THAT'S DUMB!" Let's let consumers book airline reservations, set their own price, and then not let them know whether or not they actually get the ticket until the very last minute? That has to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard.
And oneredpaperclip, there's another tribute to marketing and timing. Just like the million dollar home page. Not really "ideas" as much as they are goofy random thoughts that by some weird stroke of happenstance get some traction and take off. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"The real question is "is an idea dumb if it works?"
No, certainly not. It's the ***** brain-dead idiots with more money than sense that actually buy into it, they are the dumb ones.
***** 'doggles'. Goggles for ***** dogs. What kind of self-indulgent ***** buys those?
You can imagine the conversation :
Idiot : I just bought some goggles for my dog from doggles!
Normal Person : You are a totally *****-ridden *****. I hope you die. - dubwai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You already are, you just need to apply yourself.
- Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -11/+13"Africa needs a system like that, maybe after they solve all the other problems they can get around to it there."
There are some places you just assume everyone is HIV positive. Many parts of Africa would fall under that category. - mikevickrocks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/Top_10_Dumbest_Online_Business_Ideas_That_Made_It_Big_Time.
- Metasquares, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's probably because Internet is, by convention, capitalized.
- ExisKorlan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Actually I have wanted a FitDeck for awhile but did not know they made them... so +1
- LiThiuMElectro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Plastic wish bones...
"Announcing a Revolutionary Advance
in Plastic Wishbone Technology!"
erf... - bentracy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I agree, i think the million dollar homepage was a great idea.
- championchap, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3haha, fantastic!
Every time i hear abut somebody on Digg drinking something in a comment, its always Tea. God its good to be a Brit sometimes. - dubwai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I'm sorry but the milliion dollar home page is really really stupid. The guy who invented it wasn't. Anyone who paid him is really really stupid. The only reason this works is because 'a fool and his money are soon parted' and 'there's a sucker born every minute.'
A con-artist can do very well and generally needs to be intellegent. This doesn't mean he adds value to society and that we have to say "well he made a million dollars, he's better than you." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Looks like spam to me. A couple of things snuck in there that have absolutely TINY revenue. I think someone got clever and figured they'd put their crap stuff next to the ones that really were phenomenons and ??? profit!
- oncebanned, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Million dollar homepage. Who actually clicks any of those links. I give him points for taking money from the stupid, but the website is a joke. I am always amazed at the stupidity of people.
as an aside. Does anyone here actually click on adsense ads? - DrGamez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What, no savetoby.com?
- lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's more dumb, an idea that makes someone a millionaire or yet another link to someone's blog on digg?
No idea that makes someone an easy mil is dumb. - hags2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@Nessus
I wish I could double-digg your comment. Almost spit tea all over my keyboard. -
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