r/Businessideas

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Premise: Buyer gets transparent deal, Dealers gets confirmed deposit backed buyers (no tire kickers)

Working on online platform that kills the dealership games and tricks, essentially it's a 3 steps process:

Step 1: Car buyer puts their car specs, target price and terms (finance /lease) and how much they want for their trade in (if they have one) and puts a refundable deposit in the online platform. Zero cost to buyer

Step 2: Registered Dealers in the area (50km radius) submit final offers on dealership letterheads or dealer sheets and pics of the car to the buyer in a transparent upfront way. Gets charged a 1% fee IF the buyer accepts the offer.

Step 3: If the buyer likes the offer, they accept , deposit is transferred to dealer and buyer walks in with the transparent upfront deal sheet and signs and walks away.

No games, no negotiations, no 4 hour Saturday afternoon wasted, no drama, no regrets.

My question to you: Would you use this platform if it existed? Poke holes at it - what's missing? What features would you like? What's wrong with it ?

From young I’ve been interested in starting a business but at that sort of age, capital is low, you’re not as educated as a lot of the competition and it can be quite intimidating starting which leaves a lot of people just procrastinating. I’m putting together a website/app that allows people to simulate a business running role play, with real market data, real challenges and educational points along the way meaning they can learn about starting a business by making mistakes with no risk attached. I personally would’ve loved this years ago before I began my journey so let me know what you guys think of the idea and if you’re interested I could send you the demo for it.

ok so this is a weird one but bear with me

i have a pet blog. i don't own a pet. never have. probably never will as i travel too much. and yet every month amazon sends me enough to cover rent because people on the internet are buying stuff for their dogs and cats through my site.

bought my pet blog a few months ago from a marketplace called NicheBlogZone for $199. came already built, articles already up, amazon links already in there. i spent one afternoon doing interlinking basically just connecting related posts to each other so search engines understand the site structure and then closed my laptop and genuinely forgot about it for weeks.

here's what that's looked like:

• march: $710
• april: $995
• may: $1,461
• june: $1,647
• july: $1,461
• august so far: $1,545 (amazon pays 2 months delayed so this is june's money landing now)

march scared me. went from nearly $1k in february down to $710 and i was convinced something had broken. checked everything, found nothing wrong, did nothing. it just came back the next month on its own.

pet people spend insane amounts on their animals btw. like i knew this intellectually but seeing the commission data is something else. dog food subscriptions, orthopedic beds, grooming kits, vet supplements. and because of the 24 hour cookie i get a cut of everything in their cart not just whatever article they landed on.

i do literally nothing to maintain this. no new posts, no ads, no instagram for pets i don't have. i just own the thing and amazon does its thing.

my landlord has been getting paid every month and has no idea a pet blog is behind it. honestly sometimes i forget too until the deposit shows up.

anyone else running a niche they have zero personal connection to? curious if the detachment makes it easier or harder to care about growing it

I was wondering if i could sell my dating website - with no traffic though (i have not done any marketing) but it's having amazing new Morden interface + super fast, I'm developer myself.

Is it's possible to sell? Because recently I've seen people are only interested in SaaS or eCommerce

While researching a product in the dating space, I kept coming back to one question: what actually makes a conversation confusing?

It's the combination of small details. A long response gap. A sudden change in tone. Plans that stay vague. High effort one day and almost none the next. Words that sound interested while the behavior tells a different story.

Looking at one message alone misses the bigger picture. That's what became important while I was building this product. I wanted to explore how technology could help someone look at the entire conversation and recognize the patterns within it.

The goal is clarity. Give someone a better view of the information already in front of them instead of adding another opinion to the conversation.

What detail do you think people overlook most when trying to understand a dating conversation?

Hey everyone,

I’m working on an idea for a cash flow tool that helps business owners get a clearer view of their future cash position.

Instead of only seeing what’s currently in your bank account, the idea is to show things like:

• expected cash flow for the coming months;
• outstanding invoices;
• upcoming expenses;
• different financial scenarios;
• early warnings when cash might get tight.

I’ve built a first version of the website here:
https://cashflow-website-4490.vercel.app/

I’m mainly looking for honest feedback before investing a lot more time into it.

Would you use something like this?
If not, why not?

I’d also love to know:

• How do you currently manage or forecast your cash flow?
• What do you dislike or miss in your current setup?
• What would make a tool like this worth paying for?

Any criticism is welcome. I’m mainly trying to figure out whether this solves a real problem or if I’m building something nobody actually needs 😅

Founders, business owners, and entrepreneurs.

What’s a problem in your business that keeps coming back, even though you’ve already tried tools, software, processes, hiring someone, outsourcing, or other solutions?

I’m curious about the problems that should be solved by now, but somehow aren’t.

What is it?

And if you’ve tried solving it before, what did you try and why didn’t it work?

Hello i am a moroccan teenager and used to reselling stuff online
basically been on clothes mostly but i wanna sell more to scale more and earn more
i wanna get some chinese products and sell them here since they are very low priced from there and the quality is ok
now i just need help please if you guys have any idea of a product that maybe worked well in ur country region and never been here in morocco, i thought of some electronic stuff and this leads me to my next request
please id anyone knows a good way to get products from china please lmk
i dont wanna go for ali express or temu or something like that blindly i would like a direction first
Thanks a lot

Hey , i am highly eager person who is highly interested in starting up or partnering a business . But sometimes a good idea is something that makes it more intresting . So i guess here will be so much people who would have their business dreams and due to some issues they cant start . So if you wanna share you ideas for a good successfull business you are welcome in comments but if you are someone who dont want to spell over people so can come to dm if I like it I can look to invest ok it .!! Soo show the entrepreneur inside you😎.
#business # entrepreneur

Hey everyone,

I’m currently conducting some market research to understand the real-world challenges that professionals, creators, and business owners face in their day-to-day work.

I wanted to ask this community:

What is the single biggest bottleneck or frustration you are dealing with right now?

If a tool, service, or solution came along that completely wiped out this problem forever, would you be willing to pay for it?

Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences in the comments. Let's discuss!

I would like to talk to someone who bootstrap business from their scratch and started earning now.

But I don't know who will share these things. I would like to share of mine. But I don't know how many people can share of their's.

I'm a founder who is looking to talk to someone like that to share some knowledge -both.

While building a product in the dating space, I kept coming back to one thought: 

People already have plenty of advice.

Friends give advice.

Social media gives advice.

Dating forums give advice.

There are endless opinions about what a text means or what someone "really" wants. I wasn't interested in adding another voice to that noise. I wanted to explore something different.

What if technology could help someone look at the information already in front of them?

The conversation, the timing, the tone, the effort, the consistency, and the things that are easy to overlook when you're emotionally invested in the situation.

That's the problem I'm trying to solve with what I'm building. Not telling people what decision to make. Just helping them get a clearer picture before they make it.

What do you think is missing from the way people currently deal with confusing dating conversations?

in this thread we imagine the worst business ideas as a creativity exercise

I have been trying out and looking for business ideas for a while now, implementing them until I realize I'm kind of just getting nowhere. I'm pretty well-versed in Computer Science, especially since I'm about to get my degree, so I've mostly just been working on more things related to software and stuff, but I'm open to anything, really. I want to make a business that will actually help people, that's not part of a business that might already exist. So now, I want to try asking around, starting here: what are some problems that you guys face, enough to affect you, that you wish had a solution, or if it exists, then it's not an actual good solution?