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 shelf that holds the books you plan to read in a year.
  2. Launch an app that shows a progress bar for everything you do.
  3. Create a clothing line made from the same fabric as the weather.
  4. Start a personal brand for a person who prefers not to have one.
  5. Sell a miniature lawn, to be mowed with a comb.
  6. Provide an alibi for a slightly late arrival.
  7. Open a travel agency for destinations that are in a different room.
  8. Offer a chain letter that ends politely after two recipients.
  9. Rent out a calm voice to read the terms and conditions at a stressful moment.
  10. Sell a jar of buttons that used to belong to a coat you do not have.
  11. Start a movie theater that shows the trailer for a better movie.
  12. Create a time capsule service that opens itself next week.
  13. Charge for explaining a joke to someone slowly.
  14. Sell an expensive calendar on which every day is blank.
  15. Open a call center that calls to say there are no new messages.
  16. Offer a certified cat-photo evaluation service.
  17. Provide an adult bedtime story, but the adult is already asleep.
  18. Sell a rare coin that is somewhat common.
  19. Start a bookshop sorted by how close the author lives to you.
  20. Launch a premium tier of free samples.
  21. Rent out a doorbell so people can feel expected.
  22. Create a guide to the best parking spot in a city you have never visited.
  23. Sell a bridge. A small one, over a puddle. Rights negotiable.
  24. Open a bakery that sells croissants by the layer.
  25. Offer a lawn-watching service for people on vacation.
  26. Charge for pretending to be the neighbor who is usually home.
  27. Sell a deck of cards where every card is the six of clubs.
  28. Start a lost-item recovery service that returns something similar.
  29. Provide a personal hype man who only arrives after the event.
  30. Sell bottled enthusiasm, shake before use.
  31. Open a hair salon that only takes the volume off your thoughts.
  32. Create a smartphone case with a second, slightly worse smartphone inside.
  33. Offer workshops on how to be unavailable at the right time.
  34. Sell a hotel review written in advance.
  35. Start a dairy that makes only the small tubs of cream for coffee.
  36. Launch a service that estimates how long a project will actually take, then doubles it, then apologizes.
  37. Rent out a clock that always shows five minutes before an important thing.
  38. Sell a mystery novel with the ending on the first page.
  39. Hire a professional to bring a worse gift than yours to the birthday party.
  40. Open a candle shop where every candle smells like a different Tuesday.
  41. Offer a subscription to a plant's progress report.
  42. Create a gym for people who want to stand up from the sofa without a sound.
  43. Sell an annual pass to a park you can see from your balcony.
  44. Provide proof that you have read the article, in the form of a nod.
  45. Start a jewelry line made from ordinary keys that open nothing.
  46. Sell instructions for assembling a Monday.
  47. Offer a service in which a stranger says "we should catch up soon" and never calls.
  48. Offer an app to track how many tabs you have open and how you feel about them.
  49. Charge a fee to wait with you when you are waiting alone.
  50. Rent out the feeling of having finished early.