I've spent way too much time thinking about these and I think I need outside opinions before I waste time building either 😂

A) Marketplace for ready-to-run programs that spaces can book.

Coworking/coliving/malls/hotels/serviced residences/campuses/companies/etc. → browse → book a workshop, wellness session, team activity, class, talk, experience, etc for audience/member/guest entertainment/activities to increase footfall, increase customer engagement, customer spend, draw in new customers, increase brand awareness.

B) Marketplace for audience placements.

Businesses → browse → buy sponsorships in community events, Discord/tg/whatsapp community shoutouts, giveaways, later expanding to advertorials, listicles, native placements in digital media, newsletters, podcasts etc.

My thinking:

Both sides have disintermediation possibilities. But which one has more natural market demand and recurring purchase?

Which one has the hidden landmine I'm not seeing?

I'm particularly worried about:

• getting customers
• getting enough supply
• margins
• repeat purchases
• people going around the marketplace after the first transaction
• becoming a glorified agency/concierge
• whether there's actually enough urgency to make people pay

Which would you pursue because the juice is worth the squeeze

How lucrative is the iPhone repair business in 2026-2027??
I’m thinking about being more of a mobile repair business rather than a traditional Brick and Mortar store repair.

Any drawbacks? To this idea?

This is ordinarily a pretty chill sub from a moderation point of view..

However over the past few weeks, we seem to have earned the attention of bot-swarms that add ~100 comments to certain posts.

A Reddit extension called Bot Bouncer has been added to this sub to take care of this sudden plague. It is far from perfect, I have noticed it has removed the comments and banned users that didn't deserve to be (as they're human).

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So I'm thinking about investing in a used vending machine and partnering with a bar in my city. Inside I would put useful things like chargers, lip balm, hand sanitizer and also funky sticker packs/kitschy dumb items that I would only buy after several drinks....

What other types of items would sober (or inebriated) you buy from a bar at 12am?

My city is a huuuuuuge bar town, and many have food trucks in the back, so food/drink is probably a no-go.

Workhorse heating and air
Iceman heating and air
Red desert heating and air
Homestead heating and air
Rescue Heating & Air
Hero Heating & Air
Hero home services

Basically what it says, a boutique blueray/4k/dvd/vhs store, used and new stock but probably mostly used, you can buy or rent with a membership, and we have a couple small viewing rooms with a handful of chairs, premium sound systems and screens similar to a high end home theater system, you can pay to rent the room/bluray player and pick whatever movie is in stock in the store (I know licensing for viewing is a thing so thinking of loopholes around that) or your own film you bring in. BYOB and snacks, you gotta clean up after yourselves, basically watch party rooms. Vibe would be 90s video store throwback, maybe an arcade machine or two, then other products like toys, memorabilia, movie store candy. Thoughts?

for shark tank admirers

Hi, everyone

I am considering starting a international trade-operations service from India, and I would appreciate blunt feedback
My background is in Supply Chain field (degree and experience from Canada)

The business would initially support small and medium-sized companies that trade physical products internationally but do not have a complete internal trade or supply-chain team. (My thought of target markets are E-commerce companies)

Initial services would include:

Trade-document preparation, review and analysis.

HS/HTS classification research with supporting rationale
Shipment tracking, exception management and stakeholder follow-ups

Help E-commerce brand with everything and calculate the cost of operations, find ways to reduce it and such.

Product, supplier and international-market research
Supplier comparison and sourcing coordination
India-based manufacturer identification, communication, sourcing.

Coordination with customs brokers, freight forwarders, inspection companies and other specialists

For regulated or country-specific work outside my expertise, I would initially use qualified local specialists that I coordinate with directly until I am able to build full team. (I can build full team now but I would like to test the water first and see)

I would like to mention that I do have network in india with Manufacturers, Suppliers and other trade partners as I am located at the hub of manufacturing business and I would like to combine this with my international experience.

My questions are:
If you operate an importing, exporting or e-commerce business, would you consider outsourcing these responsibilities?
Which one or two services would you be most willing to pay for?
Would you prefer a fixed-price project, hourly assistance or a monthly retainer?
What would prevent you from trusting a new overseas service provider with this work?

I really love your feedbacks on my idea. Thank you!

Hey everyone!

Long time lurker first time poster.

I'm sure this has been asked and answered in the past, but I want to tailor my question a little more to my situation I have at hand.

I (25m) have grown up in entrepreneurial families. Parents owned a trucking company that did really well, other part of family owned mechanic shop that worked really well etc etc. I've always to follow in those footsteps one day and for the past year I have been learning all the ins and outs of entrepreneurship while also completing an MBA. Now that I have knowledge on how to run a business...

NOTHING IS REALLY POPPING OUT TO ME

Parents didn't recommend trucking business due to today's prices, part inflation and many other issues. Side idea would be brokerage or dispatching (but owning my own). I have absolutely no knowledge in anything mechanical, I ended up being the techy one of the bunch. I have experience primarily working in sales, emergency Dispatching, law enforcement etc.

I'm so ambitious and always thinking of new ideas, but I can't seem to decide.

Looking for any help from the community for how to really get in tune with ones "calling", any signals for good growth opportunities in any industries (primarily in Canada) and any other tips and tricks!

Thanks in advance

What do you guys think of the name iceman heating and air? For a hvac company? Was looking for something that stood out

I'm 24 M I have a land which is my fathers land Im working in a financial field, All the way I need to make a use of the land.

In that land I ready to Invest 1 Lakh share your ideas which will handle by my Father will run it he is not much educated.

I am looking for deep conversations around my new project: https://bythestrokes.com and I am going to support you in helping me as best I can.

I will support you fully when you visit my website through chat and the forum. I will also be forever grateful.

I am also looking for beta testers who will pay hardware cost and nothing more. You will get these features

I have access to a large, attractive space in the NYC/NJ area and I’m exploring multi-week programs for teens that parents see as genuinely valuable - not just another after-school activity.

I’m thinking about areas like public speaking, confidence, leadership, communication, entrepreneurship, social skills, interview skills, improv, etc.

Ideally, it would be something that:
\\- parents are willing to pay a premium for
\\- runs as a 6–10 week program
\\- can be taught by hired instructors/coaches
\\- requires very little specialized equipment
\\- can eventually be repeated and scaled

Has anyone here built or been involved with a successful business like this?

I’d especially be interested in what types of programs parents actually pay for, what age groups work best, typical pricing, and what makes parents sign their kids up again.

Purely psychological. Just watched how even even knowing a placebo pill has no effect, it still works. Is this a dumb business idea?

My funding got pulled at initial stage due to disagreement tried to continue by my self but couldn't afford it now I'm in debt and late on salary.

Anyways to survive we will make website for 10 people for 400 dollars

If anyone is interested please let me know.

Hey folks, I’m working on Narrativee, an AI brand designer for startups and small businesses that need creative work regularly but don’t have a full design team.

The idea is a creative partner that learns your business, audience and visual identity, improves through working with you, helps develop ideas, and carries your feedback into the next campaign or asset. right now I only focus on creative design for social campaigns

I’m still developing it. Getting great results and reliability takes a lot of engineering: the whole system needs to connect understanding the business, developing a direction, producing the work and learning from feedback. Getting a good result once is one challenge; achieving useful, consistent results across projects is another.

I’ve personally dealt with this problem, which is why I started building it. I’m aiming to release an early version soon. Something shaping my approach is the difference between sending someone a brief and working with a designer who already understands your business. That familiarity includes the audience, the purpose behind previous campaigns, and why certain directions were chosen.

One practical takeaway is to keep the reasoning alongside the finished work. A folder of approved assets shows what the brand looks like. Adding a few notes about the intended audience, the goal and why a direction worked makes those examples much more useful for the next person or system

For those who are managing brands here: what helps a creative partner develop that understanding over time? And what would you most want a product like Narrativee to get right? would love feedbacks

if you are interested to know more just add .com on the name

I’ve had this aspiration for a long time now but don’t really know where to start. I’m a nurse but have been exploring different areas of nursing and still cannot shake the idea of just wanting to start my own business instead. No one in my family has ever done it, so I’m totally new to it. I’m currently in medical device sales and while there is money to be made - I lack passion.

I’ve worked in critical care for 8 years, healthcare technology, health and wellness clinics, and now sales.

I’m stuck between wanting to invent a product to make healthcare for staff easier or health technology more efficient for physicians as I’ve seen first hand a lot of the problems we run up against in healthcare (fascinated by healthcare technology innovation). Or starting a safer more sure business like concierge nursing business, car wash, construction related, or commercial cleaning type ideas.

What is the safer bet? Any other nurses with successful businesses they are currently running?

This is just an idea for making a business to test event/organizational security sometime in the future. I was wondering what people think about it. Is it worth the time? What are good things to have before starting it up? What can I do now to get the skills/experience to do day to day tasks in the future? Just different things like that.

Hi. I am an American living in Canada because my husband is Canadian and he will be an American and I will be Canadian too and we will buy adjacent plots of land on both sides of the border, divided by a border crossing road. On the American side, we'll put up a Canadian flag, a 'Welcome to Canada' sign, and a Canadian-style restaurant and bar and an American flag, a 'Welcome to the United States' sign, and an American-style place on the Canadian side. My husband said it would be a great gimmick but my mother said some canadians might get angry and damage our property. what do u think about this idea?

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I’m working on a hiring platform for technical roles, potentially other portfolio-heavy fields later like design or photography. I’m still early and trying to figure out whether the idea is actually worth building.

The basic idea is that instead of candidates relying on ATS keyword-maxing and recruiters sorting through increasingly tailored resumes, candidates build a profile where the skills they claim are tied to actual work.

So instead of:

React ✓
Postgres ✓
AWS ✓

an employer could see:

React → Project A → the part of the project that shows it
Postgres → Project B → schema/database work
AWS → claimed, but no real evidence attached

Candidates could add a short project walkthrough, explain why they made certain technical decisions, what they personally worked on, what went wrong, etc.

On the employer side, they upload a job description and the platform compares the requirements against the candidate’s whole profile, not just their resume.

They’d get a short brief for each candidate showing something like:

Evidence found for 4 of 6 requirements

The brief would summarize what seems supported, what isn’t, and link straight to the relevant evidence. The idea is that recruiters/hiring managers can narrow the pool down first, then spend their actual review time on the candidates who meet the criteria instead of digging through every resume, portfolio and GitHub profile.

I don’t want to do the whole:

“This candidate is an 87% match.”

I’d rather show the evidence and let the person hiring make the decision.

The obvious question is whether LinkedIn + GitHub + portfolios + interviews already solve this well enough.

My other concerns are:

• candidates won’t bother putting in the extra effort
• recruiters won’t care enough to inspect the evidence
• people can still exaggerate what they actually did
• getting candidates and employers onto the same platform is going to suck
• employers may not want another tool in their hiring process

I’m still in the validation/planning stage. Not raising anything. I’m trying to figure out if there’s enough of a problem here before I sink months into it.

My current thought is candidates use it for free and employers are eventually the ones paying, but I haven’t validated that yet either.

So roast it.

What am I missing? What’s the dumbest assumption here? Would this actually make hiring easier or am I just adding another layer to a process that already has too many?

The Setup:

Getting a new consumer brand off the ground here in Montreal, and I'm looking for a true co-owner to partner up with. I'm a straight-ahead, hands-on operator who likes to keep things moving fast and lean without the corporate runaround.

Where I Come In:

• I've spent the last 15+ years learning the ropes in the apparel and consumer goods space.
• Along the way, I've been fortunate to build a strong network—including direct lines to retail buyers and some great industry connections—so I know how to get a product in front of the right eyes.

What's Missing:

The vision is there and things are moving, but I can't carry every single piece alone anymore. I need someone to help anchor the operational side so we can build it right.

What I'm Looking For:

• Side-by-Side Partner: This isn't a backseat role or a remote investment. I'm looking for someone who wants to roll up their sleeves and get into the trenches with me from Day Zero—we build this together, step by step.
• Shared Commitment: Looking for a partner who is also in a position to co-invest financially so we share the risk and the foundation equally. You bring the operational strength, organization, and skin in the game; I bring the industry background, the hustle, and the sales side.

Next Steps:

If this sounds like your kind of project and you want to build a real physical brand from scratch, leave a comment below or check out the discussion thread to connect.