{"id":12975,"date":"2019-05-23T10:41:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.85.196.90\/?p=615"},"modified":"2022-05-03T10:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T14:17:01","slug":"ridiculous-business-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designbro.com\/blog\/small-business\/ridiculous-business-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Crazy Business Ideas That Made Crazy Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fuck product-market fit and fuck solving a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mavericks that built these ridiculous businesses didn\u2019t have time for that shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No sir. They only had time for crazy business ideas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These guys threw caution to the wind. They had an idea. They built it. They launched it. They kicked arse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are some of the most ridiculous business ideas that made money but shouldn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pure audacity needed to pull off what these guys did is something to be admired, studied and copied. If you dare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we go with 11 of the best crazy business ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I Wear Your Shirt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Jason Zook loved t-shirts. So much so that he had an idea. Why don\u2019t I charge people to wear their t-shirts? In 2008 I Wear Your Shirt<\/a> was born. Each day Jason would get a company to send him their t-shirt, each day he would wear their shirt and let the internet know about it. I Wear Your Shirt started off small but ended hugely. Over the space of just 4 years, Jason made over $1,000,000 wearing people\u2019s t-shirts every day. What a fucking legend. One of the best business ideas out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ship Your Enemies Glitter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Australian entrepreneur Mathew Carpenter launched a website that charged you $9.99 to post an envelope stuffed with glitter to anyone on the planet. He called it Ship Your Enemies Glitter<\/a>. The internet went mental. In a matter of hours, the site got global media coverage and sold more than 2000 envelopes generating over $20,000. Much more than this young bloke could handle. To top off this extraordinary tale of greatness, Matt ended up selling the site at its peak for an astounding $85,000<\/a>. What a fucking ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Pet Rock<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In 1975 an advertising guy named Gary Dahl created the Pet Rock. According to Wikipedia<\/a>, this dude packaged up smooth stones from a beach in Mexico. He put them in cardboard boxes complete with \u2018breathing\u2019 holes, straw and an instruction booklet. In one incredible run of 6 months, Gary Dahl sold 1 million pet rocks at $4 each! That\u2019s 4 million dollars selling rocks found on a beach. That\u2019s one hell of a crazy business idea that made crazy money. And all done before you could sell stuff on the internet. A rock-solid business idea indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Highscore.Money<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Entrepreneur Marc K\u00f6hlbrugge<\/a> launched an experiment. In his own words he called it \u2018a public leaderboard you enter by paying. Whichever amount you decide to pay, that\u2019s your score. The more you pay, the higher your ranking\u2019. He called in Highscore.Money<\/a>. Insane right? People will never pay to see their name at the top of an internet leaderboard! Wrong. This ballsy move netted Marc a whopping $2251 in just 24 hours<\/a>. Not bad for a day’s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Million Dollar Homepage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Alex Tew had a plan. Launch a website and sell space on if for $1 per pixel. He called it Million Dollar Home Page. One million pixels, one million dollars. A beautifully simple but straight up insane business model. The internet loved it. He sold all of his pixels and made a gross income of a whopping $1,037,100. Boom. A brilliant idea executed that brought in a shit tonne of money. Hat tilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Potato Parcel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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