Bonez3 Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 PM me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacks 'n' Stuff Posted February 28, 2016 Author Share Posted February 28, 2016 Mine was an uber for personal trainers. Have at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsFTW Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Mine was an uber for personal trainers. Have at it. Might be better off with an Uber for prostitutes and just hire on all those people with all those unused Rvs around the country. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grhqofb5 Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 I saw a commercial the other night that was offering these inventor kits for free. It also included a free IQ test, so you can check how smart you are. Edit: www.freeinventorkit.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Mine was an uber for personal trainers. Have at it. I think Lyft for personal trainers would work better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacks 'n' Stuff Posted February 28, 2016 Author Share Posted February 28, 2016 Might be better off with an Uber for prostitutes and just hire on all those people with all those unused Rvs around the country. LOL That was the first thing my dad said too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar78 Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Mine is a car spoiler with a video screen that only shows major events in movies and tv shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsluggo Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I have a billion dollar idea but… you know.. so do i ! i was thinking the other night.... just about everybody i know likes, or professes to like, sex. But there is no aisle at Walmart. why hasn;t anybody thought of selling THAT?? really... you can lead a horse to water .............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zguy28 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Get a patent lawyer and patent it. Then you can discuss it openly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Let me tell you, first time I saw the iPod, I could have kicked myself... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grhqofb5 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I came up with this idea independently, then told a buddy, who then sent me this the next day: My whole theory was that Electric cars are good (if only because you want to save money on gasoline), but the obvious drawback is the range, and the fact that you have to re-charge the damn thing. So if you can get a batter up to a range of maybe 200 miles, that would be acceptable. So why not just have interchangeable batteries, you don't own the battery, and each gas station (don't even need to build new electric stations) could just have a rack of about 10 of them. One trained tech comes out and changes the battery, and you're on you way. The machine thing isn't really even necessary if you design the vehicle so that the battery is easily changeable (hell, why not just have system where the driver can swap it out, how heavy is a battery?). Anyway, so this commercial crushed my dream, and I've refused to invent anything since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacks 'n' Stuff Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 you know.. so do i ! i was thinking the other night.... just about everybody i know likes, or professes to like, sex. But there is no aisle at Walmart. why hasn;t anybody thought of selling THAT?? really... you can lead a horse to water .............. How about a GHB that you can give to horses??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tshile Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 i have a billion ideas too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsluggo Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Get a patent lawyer and patent it. Then you can discuss it openly. when i get the patent on sex.... then you'll all be sorry! How about a GHB that you can give to horses??? i don;t know what GHB is...... so wiki has me asking how to fit bagpipes into this discussion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinfan2k Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 go on shark tank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsFTW Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 (hell, why not just have system where the driver can swap it out, how heavy is a battery?). Only about 1600 pounds. Have fun hot swapping those bro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grhqofb5 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Only about 1600 pounds. Have fun hot swapping those bro. So the battery weight accounts for almost half the weight of the entire vehicle? I guess we'll need to make the batteries smaller, or just forget about electric cars all together. Bad idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Make a DONDA diagram and tweet your request to Mark Zuckerburg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I thought about this about 15 years ago. Powdered beer. Just add cold water (like Kool Aid) and bubbles. Then I saw this.. http://beerstreetjournal.com/powdered-beer-to-go-just-add-water/ Odds are..whatever you thought of has already been thought of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Get a patent lawyer and patent it. Then you can discuss it openly. Not necessarily soliciting a response from Zguy exclusively here... But here's the deal. I've got a million dollar idea/invention. It's something that would be used/needed by millions of people every year. It's a product that would cost no more than $5-10/ea, could be manufactured for probably under 50 cents each at volume, and I'm fairly confident in my ability to get this thing off the ground. The only marketing needed would be retail product placement. And I'm pretty sure a big manufacturer would want to license the product from me. So start up costs are relatively cheap, compared to a lot of other inventions and ideas. But, looking into the patent process, it seems like it's a really good idea to hire an attorney to research existing patents first. The problem is they charge $5-10k, and that's needed before I can even explore commercial feasibility. I've got a two month old kid and we're looking at buying or building a new house soon. I really can't invest that much out of my own savings. Question for the board... Anyone have experience navigating the patent process on their own? Any other options I'm missing other than trying to do the patent process solo? Something that would have me investing about a maximum of $2-3k up front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckets24 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Not necessarily soliciting a response from Zguy exclusively here... But here's the deal. I've got a million dollar idea/invention. It's something that would be used/needed by millions of people every year. It's a product that would cost no more than $5-10/ea, could be manufactured for probably under 50 cents each at volume, and I'm fairly confident in my ability to get this thing off the ground. The only marketing needed would be retail product placement. And I'm pretty sure a big manufacturer would want to license the product from me. So start up costs are relatively cheap, compared to a lot of other inventions and ideas. But, looking into the patent process, it seems like it's a really good idea to hire an attorney to research existing patents first. The problem is they charge $5-10k, and that's needed before I can even explore commercial feasibility. I've got a two month old kid and we're looking at buying or building a new house soon. I really can't invest that much out of my own savings. Question for the board... Anyone have experience navigating the patent process on their own? Any other options I'm missing other than trying to do the patent process solo? Something that would have me investing about a maximum of $2-3k up front. An associate of mine went through this years ago. He hired an attorney and got something in the patent process right away while he explored if any existed already. It turned out there wasn't and he was awarded I believe a few patents. He has made quite a bit of money from this and he asked a bunch of us if we wanted to invest 10+ years ago and I still regret not pulling the trigger. So If you are looking for investors I might be interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 I don't want to give away too much but it's sort of like Uber for funerals. For funerals? "Lyft" would have been the better analogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Get a patent lawyer and patent it. Then you can discuss it openly. I was looking into this recently for an idea I had. What I found in my research (and to be honest, I tired of it eventually) was that you can't just patent an idea. There has to be something of value to patent (a technology, machinery, etc.). For example for anyone who's familiar with TopGolf...you could patent the technology that is used to track the balls and assign points based on where they land. But you couldn't patent the idea to have a driving range with games and points. At least that's how I understand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 My idea is a ride service for rural areas. Like Uber. I'm going to call it Goober. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 An associate of mine went through this years ago. He hired an attorney and got something in the patent process right away while he explored if any existed already. It turned out there wasn't and he was awarded I believe a few patents. He has made quite a bit of money from this and he asked a bunch of us if we wanted to invest 10+ years ago and I still regret not pulling the trigger. So If you are looking for investors I might be interested. Thanks. At this stage probably not but I'll be keeping the investor idea in mind as funding becomes required in the future. *I should note because it probably sounded like I needed funding, I'm more looking for the most economical way to do the patent process right now. The problem with investors at this stage is that the idea itself isn't worth all that much without actual, tangible returns that I can assign value to. So I'd probably have to give up way too much equity just for the small amount of funding that I don't (technically) need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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