All the absurd business ideas

Every idea on this site has its own page, so you can read it, share it and argue about it. They are in no particular order, and none of them is a good idea.

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  1. Sell a map of the places where the map is incorrect.
  2. Open a laundromat that returns your clothes slightly different, on purpose.
  3. Provide an escort to walk behind you saying "excuse me".
  4. Sell a calculator that always returns the number you were thinking of.
  5. Start a membership club for people who have lost a pen.
  6. Offer notary services for promises made to oneself.
  7. Rent out a small crowd for your arrival.
  8. Create a luxury toothpick, one per customer.
  9. Sell the rights to name a cloud. The cloud will not be informed.
  10. Open a museum of things that were left on the roof of the car.
  11. Launch a ride-hailing app for walking, with a driver who walks behind you.
  12. Offer a subscription to a person who occasionally mentions a good idea and then leaves.
  13. Sell premium air at sea level, standard air at altitude.
  14. Start a company that makes the sound of a keyboard louder in open offices.
  15. Create an encyclopedia of things that are almost correct.
  16. Sell a coupon for a free coupon.
  17. Charge a modest fee to remember where you parked, for you.
  18. Offer lectures titled "Yes, and then what?".
  19. Open a store that sells only the packaging of other products.
  20. Provide emotional support for people who lost a very small bet.
  21. Sell a bookmark that remembers the page by being slightly too thick.
  22. Start a talent agency for people who are mediocre at several things.
  23. Launch a smart ruler that reports how long things feel.
  24. Sell a megaphone designed for whispering.
  25. Open a school for learning to speak in meetings without saying anything.
  26. Offer to hold a door open for people who are not coming.
  27. Rent out your handwriting for important signatures.
  28. Create a subscription box of misplaced items other people lost.
  29. Sell an eraser that only works on mistakes made by others.
  30. Start a newspaper that prints only tomorrow's headlines, each one "Nothing happened".
  31. Charge people to be told it will probably be fine.
  32. Open a spa where the treatment is waiting in a quiet room.
  33. Provide a personal assistant that forwards your thoughts to nobody.
  34. Sell artisanal staples, sorted by mood.
  35. Offer rooftop gardens grown entirely in a photograph.
  36. Start a car rental service for cars that are already parked outside your house.
  37. Create a gym membership for a gym that closed. The membership remains active.
  38. Sell a diary pre-filled with a perfectly normal day.
  39. Open a bar that serves only the glass.
  40. Offer a decision-making service that flips a coin and then asks you if you are happy.
  41. Rent out a lighthouse keeper's coat.
  42. Sell a refrigerator magnet that holds nothing up.
  43. Start a rumor distribution service for small and harmless rumors.
  44. Charge for opening the window slightly.
  45. Create an app that predicts which supermarket line is slowest, after you have joined it.
  46. Sell a sundial with a battery.
  47. Open a theater where the play is the audience arriving.
  48. Offer a replacement for the word "synergy". It is also "synergy".
  49. Provide a chair that is slightly more comfortable than the one you have.
  50. Open a farm where you can adopt a single potato and visit it on weekends.