Terrible horrible no good very bad ideas

A newsletter of startup ideas and data to back them up

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A weekly newsletter full of crazy startup ideas and the research on why they might actually work.

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Terrible horrible no good very bad ideas

Maker

Hi producthunt, it's your old pal shaan (user #15 on product hunt, nbd) I'm helping launch this weekly email called Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Ideas. It's full of....well... the name speaks for itself. But that's the funny thing about startup ideas. Some of the best startup ideas start out sounding like terrible ideas. Air Bed & Breakfast?? Getting into strangers cars instead of taxis? Watching other people play video games?? Occasionally, those bad ideas are actually great ideas in disguise. So this is a weekly email, of ideas like those. It's totally free. I just wanted to make something fun for founders, or soon-to-be founders who want to hear ideas that get the wheels turning. Where do the ideas come from? Our local organic farm. These are free-range ideas from a podcast I do with my bud @thesamparr . . It's a pretty good podcast if you're into that kind of thing (it's called My First Million, check it out). We've gotten over 2M downloads in the first 9 months of the podcast! We shoot the shit and brainstorm startup ideas, and I've curated the best ones to share with you all. Normally we like to keep ideas close to the vest. But Sam's got a badass company to run, and I just sold my company to Twitch - so we're just giving them away for free because we have more ideas than time! ok go ahead - AMA!

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6yr ago

@shaanvp do you have a compiled list of your ideas anywhere. Trying to get inspiration to launch something in SEA/India. Thanks .

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6yr ago

Treendly

Congrats on the launch, just subscribed. Love the podcast! I've very recently (yesterday!) launched a tool around spotting trends on PH (Treendly). We should collab! 🚀

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6yr ago

Terrible horrible no good very bad ideas

Maker

@mikerubini thanks mike - probably too close to Trends.co that my brothers at the Hustle run to collaborate. Instead we must fight to the death

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6yr ago

Treendly

@shaanvp ahah, pleasure man! I think there's room for everybody. In fact, I think we complement each other. Anyway, good luck with the launch! 🚀

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6yr ago

Terrible horrible no good very bad ideas

Maker

Hi guys, I help run the My First Million podcast! Sometimes it hurts my brain on how many ideas Shaan comes up with so it's better now that you can share in my pain ;). So why not sign up? - it's free - it's 3 half baked but also kinda lowkey good business ideas every week - some you can flat out steal or they can inspire your next big idea / side hustle literally no downside to signing up so just go do it!

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6yr ago

Brilliant, not only is this informative but I believe it’ll encourage others to better adopt the mindset of creative, out of the box thinking. Very keen!

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6yr ago

Terrible horrible no good very bad ideas

Maker

@mattjmuscat TBH that's the biggest win for me. training my brain to look for problems or interesting ideas throughout the day rather than just going in autopilot

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6yr ago

I just read that in the Facebook group that this project is dead (?), which is a shame! Why not turn the My First Million podcast ideas into this newsletter? There are plenty to pick from, so content-wise you are set. You could just send the weekly round up and whether you/Sam like this idea. A kind of battle it out. Happy to help! @shaanvp

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6yr ago

Launchdeck

Great idea! I've lost count how many 'billion-dollar ideas' I've had and noticed, quite quickly, that they were already done. This seems like the creative distraction that's needed to find blue ocean opportunities.....and have a chuckle at the ideas I can imagine.

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6yr ago

Slick.events

I like it and signed up - but the dark pattern you have in place to trick people into giving consent for marketing is really terrible.

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6yr ago

Terrible horrible no good very bad ideas

Maker

@fredrik_sthlm what is it? Must be something that just comes default with converkit (what we use to setup the landing page/emails). Lmk where it is so I can remove

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6yr ago

Slick.events

Hey @shaanvp It’s the pop up right after signing up. Just change the wording of the title to something that doesn’t make the visitor think that giving consent is required to get the newsletter 😉 “”Consent must be freely given “Freely given” consent essentially means you have not cornered the data subject into agreeing to you using their data. For one thing, that means you cannot require consent to data processing as a condition of using the service.”” I guess I’m just a grumpy old man that doesn’t like all these annoying gdpr pop ups that aren’t valid anyway because the way they are formed 😀 Looking forward to receiving the first newsletter!

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