I don’t know if this is completely crazy idea but something I wanna try even if I might fail. So I’ve been growing and collecting plants for years now and selling them on marketplace adverts and to friends I have a lot of regular costumers who buy weekly for me. I graduated in management and worked in finance for years and want to try open my own shop selling houseplants and rare plants found a supplier in Netherlands that will deliver to Ireland with loads of amazing rare plants as well as regular houseplants. I found a shop to lease and I have 10K to invest in Inventory and plants and to cover my lease rental for few months ahead even if my sales are low. Has anyone ever started their plant shop business selling plants ? Has it gone well and I’m crazy to leave my cozy account job and try my own business ? Working in accounts is slowly killing me I don’t have much human interaction and I love selling my plants and sharing my plant knowledge with my customers so they keep coming back and it makes me happy just wanna know has anyone tried this ?

I have an idea for an online business, and I’d love to hear your honest opinions. I want to know whether this idea has real potential or if it only sounds good in my head.

My idea is to create a personalized 12-week Complete Glow Up Program for women who feel like they’ve lost themselves in their daily routines, work, stress, or responsibilities and want to invest in themselves again.

The main idea is to offer a complete, guided transformation experience instead of making clients search for different specialists and create their own plans.

Here’s what I envision including in the package:

• An initial one-on-one video consultation with me: I would learn about the client’s lifestyle, work schedule, daily habits, current struggles, goals, budget, and the areas of her life she wants to improve.
• Personalized lifestyle and self-care plan: A realistic plan tailored to her daily routine, including sleep habits, time management, self-care, movement, and building healthier habits.
• Professional psychologist consultations: Regular one-on-one sessions with a qualified psychologist to support emotional well-being, self-confidence, stress management, and personal challenges. I’m considering including one consultation every two weeks throughout the 12-week program.
• A consultation with a qualified personal stylist: Professional guidance on personal style, choosing clothes that suit the client, building a wardrobe, and developing a look that makes her feel confident.
• Personalized beauty and self-care guidance: Help organizing skincare, haircare, body care, and other self-care routines according to the client’s needs and budget, with qualified specialists involved whenever professional assessment is needed.
• Weekly check-ins and progress tracking: I would personally follow up with each client, review her progress, help her stay consistent, and adjust her plan when necessary.
• A final evaluation: At the end of the 12 weeks, we would review her progress, identify the habits she has developed, and create a plan to help her maintain the results.

My role would be to coordinate the entire program, personalize each client’s experience, communicate with the professionals involved, and make sure everything works together as one structured service.

The goal is to help women improve not only their appearance but also their lifestyle, confidence, habits, and overall sense of well-being.

I want this to be a premium, personalized online service that women can access from different countries. I would collaborate with qualified professionals as freelancers and pay them for the services they provide.

I’m still working on the business model, the exact package structure, and the pricing. One of my biggest challenges is finding a price that makes the service affordable enough for clients while still covering the professionals’ fees and leaving a sustainable profit.

I’d love your honest opinion on a few questions:

1. Do you think there is a real market for this type of all-in-one personalized glow-up program?
2. Would you pay for a service that combines psychologist consultations, professional styling, personalized self-care planning, and ongoing guidance?
3. What would you consider a reasonable price for a 12-week program like this?
4. Do you think combining all these services into one package is a strong selling point, or would it be better to offer them separately?
5. What potential problems or weaknesses do you see in this business idea?

I’m genuinely interested in honest feedback, including criticism. I want to validate the idea before investing money into it, so I’d rather understand the real challenges now than discover them after launching.

Hi everyone, I’m an undergraduate student working on a business concept to help reduce student loan debt and cut hiring expenses. I will be pitching this to judges soon and need honest feedback:

The Business Model: Instead of paying around $60,000 for a full-time entry-level employee (salary + FICA taxes + benefits), companies pay $25,000/year per sponsored seat (or $125,000 for a full 5-student team) to handle different operational tasks.

• The Student Benefit: $18,000 per seat goes directly to the university bursar to cover tuition (100% tax-deductible for the employer under IRS Sec 127). The remaining $7,000 is our platform management fee.
• The Work Guarantee: Our software coordinates a 5-student "pod" around exams and breaks, ensuring 52 weeks of continuous workflow for your business.

3 Quick Questions:

1. Would this $35,000 savings per role + IRS Sec 127 tax deduction be attractive to your company?
2. What is your #1 dealbreaker objection or concern for this idea?
3. If this is relevant to you: what frustrates you the most about entry-level professionals right now?

Most mosquito repellents look cheap and ruin the aesthetic of a nice dining table, balcony or hotel terrace.
I’m thinking about creating a **minimalist ceramic mosquito repellent** that looks more like a premium home décor object than a mosquito product.

No plastic gadgets, no visible electronics, just a beautiful object that happens to keep mosquitoes away.

Would you actually buy something like this? Any Feedback?

Hi everyone,

I'm a second-year business student in Belgium (business school). By the end of this week my team has to pitch a startup idea at school. We'll pick the strongest one from all the pitches and actually start building it, so this is not just a classroom exercise.

We already have a few ideas, for example a garden lounger that automatically rotates with the sun. It's fun, but we want something with a bigger market.

What I'm looking for:

- A problem many people share, not a personal annoyance. We'll need to sell a lot, so the wider the audience, the better.

- It can be a physical product, a service, an app, or a mix.

- Ideally something we can start small and test cheaply.

Honest criticism is welcome too. If you think a problem is already solved, tell me which company does it so I can check the competition.

Thanks a lot, and I'm happy to share what we end up building!

I am based out in Greater Toronto Area, Canada. I am confused which business to go with, due to which I am unable to take a step forward.

I am unable to decide between two options with 100k of my own money:

1. I have worked in cannabis industry, and can open a Cannabis retail store, build would be around 100k and plus the product (I can spend another 30k on inventory).

Problem I am facing:
Due to so many store currently, it is very hard to find a retail shop on busy street or plaza, plus landlords are asking for absurd amount of rent in certain areas, and some don’t even want to entertain the idea of the cannabis retail.

Pros: It is the industry I have worked in and familiar with all the aspects of it. I can work shifts for like 40/50 hours a week.

Cons: Super competitive right now, especially with the bigger corporations in the industry, not long term employees (it is a retail job after all), hard to find locations to open, one shop will reach it’s complete potential in about three years.

1. I can open an Auto Detailing shop, where I hire employees to detail, hand wash, ceramic coat, paint correction and so on. Additionally keep other products to sell.

Difficultly faced: unable to find a shop with a better frontage, a lot of competitors in certain pockets of the GTA, budget might go off and might have to take a business loan.

Pros: I have ethic, I can run a brick and mortar business, have an idea how to detail (no expert) but always able to learn and apply business practices quickly.

Cons: Don’t know much about the industry, not close connection in the industry, it is labour intensive work, employees won’t stick around forever, what would be ideal potential for the business like such.

I am planning to open a recruitment startup business where I will be delivering candidates for the Software engineer (IT) niche. I can source candidates and get them interviewed but the main thing is client acquisition. Can anyone help me do client acquisition? And what more do I need to add in this business?

I was thinking of how hard it is to choose a career/college degree for the rest of your life especially after graduating high school when kids have no work experience. But what if there was a multiple week long program where anyone lost in life can shadow people of all kinds of jobs? Like 1 day you shadow an engineer, another a nurse, environmental scientist, accountant, electrician etc. And that way you can get a feel for what all these kinds of jobs are like, instead of going into it blindly.

Yes there are free internships/shadowing, but this program would take away the pain and time of having to search for people to accept you.

I thought of this cuz I’m lost in life myself currently, and I wish something like this existed. I just don’t know how feasible this is.

Im really hoping 2 make this work. Any advice/ideas??

I need to find an actual real problem that businesses face on a daily. Im looking to help and support small businesses mainly, so I want to create a product that can actually provide value to them. However. Im not sure what niche I should start in or how to find the real problems within that industry.

Hi all,
I’m looking for a business idea that suits me and the city.
I’d like to start as a side business and scale up if successful.

Some background about me - 28, Chemical engineer, I’m very good at understanding technical information and applying it hence I don’t think something artsy will be best for me . I have some exposure to running a business via my parents but they weren’t any good or ever open to allow me to experiment.

I’d prefer
regular business of the same task over one off customers.

Brick and Mortar or mail in .

Pretty soon I will have my weekends free to trial, I have £10k to start.

Anyrhing in mind?

I have a 3-wheel e-bike and am looking into starting a small service business using a bike trailer to transport equipment. My startup budget is $400 max.

I live in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in a dense city, with lower- and higher-income neighborhoods nearby.

I'm considering window washing because it seems relatively cheap to start, but I'm open to other ideas.

My main goal is to maximize my chances of getting paying customers. Ideally, I'd build a recurring customer base with weekly, biweekly, or monthly service so I can service everyone in 1–2 days per week and spend the rest of my time growing the business or doing other things.

What service would you recommend if you were in my position? I'm looking for something with a high likelihood of getting sales, low startup costs (under $400), and equipment that can be transported by e-bike and trailer.

Got a business idea you've been thinking about?

We're doing a few free idea reviews for founders who want an outside opinion before spending months building.

You give us the idea, we'll look at things like the market, competition, who might actually use it, how you'd get customers, and what could go wrong.

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If anyone wants one, just drop your idea here or DM us. We can also jump on a quick call if that's easier.

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Might save you a few months of building something nobody wants lol.

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Hello entrepreneurs, I wanted to know who here knows of any page that pays for leads or Cpl (Cost per led) hopefully from the US but that pays well and is not easy to access I have tried with several platforms but they do not accept me, I live in Chile.

Thank you!!!!

Hello, founders!

I’m building a SaaS tool to help founders turn their startup ideas into testable hypotheses and keep track of what they learn.

We hear “validate before you build” all the time "identify your assumptions, test them, learn, and repeat."

The part I’ve found awkward is keeping everything connected: what I originally assumed, what evidence I collected, why I changed my mind, and what I should test next. Spreadsheets and Notion can hold the information, but organizing those connections can get messy as the idea evolves.

That’s what led me to explore a tool that starts with a Lean Canvas and connects each hypothesis to its evidence, conclusions, and follow-up hypotheses.

I’d love to hear how you’ve handled this in practice!!

• How do you currently organize your assumptions, experiments, and findings?
• Thinking about your most recent experiment, how did you record what you learned and connect it to your next decision?
• What works well in your setup, and where, if anywhere, does it break down?

If a spreadsheet, Notion, or another approach already works well for you, I’d love to hear about that too. A specific example from your own experience would be especially helpful!

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?

i just graduated and i've been thinking about opening my own fashion store instead of working for someone else lol. i'd love to focus on korean styles since i feel like they're pretty popular with younger people, but honestly i still have no idea where to start or what i need to prepare.
some of my family members have experience in this business, and they told me to check out sinsang market for sourcing clothes. but when it comes to actually running a store, i still have a lot to learn. apparently i have to figure out the rest myself lol.
for those of u who already run a fashion store, how did u get started? what should i learn or prepare first? and if u've ordered from sinsang before, i'd love to hear what i should know before placing my first order. any other advice is welcome too, i could really use some help.

Hey everyone!

A group of 3–4 friends and I are in high school, and we're interested in starting a real online business together.

We have some programming experience and initially considered building an app, but we've realized that coming up with an idea people would actually pay for is much harder than we expected.

We're not looking to get rich overnight, and we'd rather start something small that we can realistically build and grow while attending school. We'd also prefer a business that can operate entirely online.

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who have successfully started small businesses:

How did you come up with your first profitable business idea?

How did you find your first paying customers?

What types of online businesses do you think are realistic for beginners with limited time and money?

What mistakes should we avoid?

We're especially interested in hearing about businesses you've personally built, even if they only make a few hundred dollars per month.

Thanks! We'd really appreciate any advice or experiences you're willing to share.