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 an hour of having something to look forward to.
  2. Launch a search engine that only returns the second result.
  3. Rent out a suit that has already been to a successful interview.
  4. Create a secret handshake kit for two people who have never met.
  5. Sell the exact spot where someone once had a good idea. Plaque included.
  6. Open a bank that stores only small, unimportant amounts of money.
  7. Offer a window seat for people who live on the ground floor.
  8. Start a clothing exchange for single mittens.
  9. Sell a book titled "Chapter One" that is an entire book.
  10. Charge a fee for placing a sticky note on a problem.
  11. Create a calendar app that moves your meetings to a better time, which does not exist.
  12. Provide a mirror that adds a small amount of confidence.
  13. Sell inspirational quotes, attributed to nobody in particular.
  14. Start a repair shop for things that were never broken.
  15. Open an observatory for pointing at things that are close.
  16. Offer a staircase to nowhere, with excellent handrails.
  17. Rent out a pen that has always worked, for important moments.
  18. Sell perfectly average snow.
  19. Launch a marketplace where everything costs a reasonable price and nothing is available.
  20. Create a friendship app for people who prefer to stay home.
  21. Start a catering company that serves leftovers from events that did not happen.
  22. Offer to read the instruction manual so you do not have to.
  23. Sell a weather vane that points toward whatever you are hoping for.
  24. Open a clinic for people who are fine but would like a second opinion.
  25. Charge a toll for crossing a bridge you were going to cross anyway.
  26. Provide a subscription for a daily "good luck", sent without context.
  27. Sell a map of an imaginary city, with realistic traffic.
  28. Start a podcast where two people agree on everything.
  29. Create a luxury version of a paperclip that has the same function.
  30. Sell a paperweight that is a little too light.
  31. Offer private tours of your own apartment.
  32. Open a pharmacy that sells only the small paper bag.
  33. Rent out a hallway for rehearsing difficult conversations.
  34. Launch a smart house that sighs when you come home late.
  35. Sell a fortune that is always correct afterwards.
  36. Start a freight company for transporting small decisions.
  37. Charge a fee for finding the end of the tape.
  38. Create a leaderboard for people who stayed calm.
  39. Sell a one-way ticket to a place you were already going.
  40. Open a vending machine that sells only a short wait.
  41. Offer a lifetime membership to a club that meets once, at midnight, briefly.
  42. Provide transcripts of conversations that happened in your head.
  43. Sell a spoon that is suspiciously certain of itself.
  44. Start a company that sharpens pencils for artists in moments of doubt.
  45. Rent out a bench with a nice view of another bench.
  46. Create an anthology of unfinished sentences, completed by nobody.
  47. Sell a starter kit for the second half of a hobby.
  48. Open a store for perfectly good ideas that were returned.
  49. Offer a tutorial on how to nod at the right moment.
  50. Charge a subscription for the feeling that a delivery is nearby.