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Most of these failed pretty quickly. I think gamecrush just closed
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-craziest-startup-ideas-of-all-time-2010-11?op=1
Layoffspace -- a social network for the unemployed
"What it is: Layoffspace.com was meant to be a job site that doubled as a social network for the unemployed.
How it worked out: The site is dead. Perhaps the problem was timing: Layoffspace launched in April 2007, a year before its target audience really came into its own."
Blippy lets you link up your credit card and your Twitter account, so that every purchase you make is broadcast to the world.
Audioo lets you share your voicemail with the world
"What it is: Audioo lets you make all of your voicemail public. The idea was to use the hook of sharing funny voicemails as a way to build up a huge, transcribed, searchable database of the human voice.
How it worked out: Audioo was a side project of a less controversial and exciting, but more profitable venture. The site is now up for auction, and the team is back to plan A."
Honestly.com is "Yelp for people"
"Honestly.com -- formerly Unvarnished -- is a site that lets anyone publish anonymous professional reviews of you to your profile, whether you like it or not."
This gamecrush seemed like a good idea to me
GameCrush lets you pay to play Xbox games with hot women
"What it is: GameCrush lets you pay $0.60 a minute to play Xbox Live games with women. You can rate your 'PlayDates' based on 'hotness', 'gaming skill', and 'flirtiness' to ensure the cream rises to the top."
The "Meet Pen" would have been a pen that helped you meet people
What it is: The Meet Pen was an idea to revolutionize the way we meet new people. When you saw someone at a social function whom you wanted to meet, but couldn't or wouldn't introduce yourself to for whatever reason, you would pull out your Meet Pen and 'click' it in their direction. When that person got home and checked their Meet Pen, it would tell them you wanted to meet, and make the introduction automatically.
This is nt a a bad startup idea, they actually have a web site.
http://tacocopter.com/
"It's an unmanned drone helicopter shooting a taco from space down at you and your colleagues during lunchtime!
Tacocopter
The Internet is going wild for Tacocopter, perhaps the next great startup out of Silicon Valley, which boasts a business plan that combines four of the most prominent touchstones of modern America: tacos, helicopters, robots and laziness.
Indeed, the concept behind Tacocopter is very simple, and very American: You order tacos on your smartphone and also beam in your GPS location information. Your order -- and your location -- are transmitted to an unmanned drone helicopter (grounded, near the kitchen where the tacos are made), and the tacocopter is then sent out with your food to find you and deliver your tacos to wherever you're standing.
You pay online, so the tacos are simply dropped off at your feet by the drone helicopter, which then flies back to the restaurant to pick up its next order."
Those were all real startups, this is from the onion
New Social Media Startup Launches, Shuts Down Within 45 Minutes
PALO ALTO, CAFrendTrend, a new social media startup that branded itself as a fun, intuitive way to connect and share with friends online, celebrated its long-awaited launch at 9 a.m. this morning, shuttering its doors later this morning at 9:45 a.m.
As the brainchild of tech developer Greg Nesheim, 36, FrendTrend was designed to be a virtual community for friends and acquaintances to interact using live chat and photo-sharing features, a service the site provided for exactly 45 minutes before the company liquidated all of its assets.
The site just didnt catch on, what can I say? Nesheim told reporters of the website that, less than an hour earlier, he launched excitedly with the tagline Get ready for the next wave in social media. I posted some videos and messages on my little FrendTrend pod, as we called them, but there were only like five or six other users and they all worked for the company, so it was like, This sucks.
Its just too bad we have to pack up all this office furniture after unloading it only a couple of hours ago, Nesheim continued.
During a candid postmortem 10 minutes after the site had been removed and an hour after it had launched, Nesheim cited myriad difficulties in the sites first 15 or 20 minutes, including logistical hurdles, a stubborn market share, and administrative hassles.
Within 52 seconds of the sites launch, you could tell things werent looking good, and after 30 minutes I figured, All right, lets just give it 15 more minutes and if it hasnt taken off by then, fuck it, said Nesheim, who frantically and unsuccessfully attempted to sell the company to an outside investor within minutes of FrendTrend going live. It had so much promise when I walked into our office for the first time this morning. People just didnt give it a chance.
Although I guess the writing had been on the wall for minutes and minutes, Nesheim added.
Though disappointed by this latest setback, Nesheim told reporters he is excited to pitch investors on his next tech venture, a consumer-to-consumer online auction and shopping website called iBuy.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-social-media-startup-launches-shuts-down-withi,31557/?ref=auto
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-craziest-startup-ideas-of-all-time-2010-11?op=1
Layoffspace -- a social network for the unemployed
"What it is: Layoffspace.com was meant to be a job site that doubled as a social network for the unemployed.
How it worked out: The site is dead. Perhaps the problem was timing: Layoffspace launched in April 2007, a year before its target audience really came into its own."
Blippy lets you link up your credit card and your Twitter account, so that every purchase you make is broadcast to the world.
Audioo lets you share your voicemail with the world
"What it is: Audioo lets you make all of your voicemail public. The idea was to use the hook of sharing funny voicemails as a way to build up a huge, transcribed, searchable database of the human voice.
How it worked out: Audioo was a side project of a less controversial and exciting, but more profitable venture. The site is now up for auction, and the team is back to plan A."
Honestly.com is "Yelp for people"
"Honestly.com -- formerly Unvarnished -- is a site that lets anyone publish anonymous professional reviews of you to your profile, whether you like it or not."
This gamecrush seemed like a good idea to me
GameCrush lets you pay to play Xbox games with hot women
"What it is: GameCrush lets you pay $0.60 a minute to play Xbox Live games with women. You can rate your 'PlayDates' based on 'hotness', 'gaming skill', and 'flirtiness' to ensure the cream rises to the top."
The "Meet Pen" would have been a pen that helped you meet people
What it is: The Meet Pen was an idea to revolutionize the way we meet new people. When you saw someone at a social function whom you wanted to meet, but couldn't or wouldn't introduce yourself to for whatever reason, you would pull out your Meet Pen and 'click' it in their direction. When that person got home and checked their Meet Pen, it would tell them you wanted to meet, and make the introduction automatically.
This is nt a a bad startup idea, they actually have a web site.
http://tacocopter.com/
"It's an unmanned drone helicopter shooting a taco from space down at you and your colleagues during lunchtime!
Tacocopter
The Internet is going wild for Tacocopter, perhaps the next great startup out of Silicon Valley, which boasts a business plan that combines four of the most prominent touchstones of modern America: tacos, helicopters, robots and laziness.
Indeed, the concept behind Tacocopter is very simple, and very American: You order tacos on your smartphone and also beam in your GPS location information. Your order -- and your location -- are transmitted to an unmanned drone helicopter (grounded, near the kitchen where the tacos are made), and the tacocopter is then sent out with your food to find you and deliver your tacos to wherever you're standing.
You pay online, so the tacos are simply dropped off at your feet by the drone helicopter, which then flies back to the restaurant to pick up its next order."
Those were all real startups, this is from the onion
New Social Media Startup Launches, Shuts Down Within 45 Minutes
PALO ALTO, CAFrendTrend, a new social media startup that branded itself as a fun, intuitive way to connect and share with friends online, celebrated its long-awaited launch at 9 a.m. this morning, shuttering its doors later this morning at 9:45 a.m.
As the brainchild of tech developer Greg Nesheim, 36, FrendTrend was designed to be a virtual community for friends and acquaintances to interact using live chat and photo-sharing features, a service the site provided for exactly 45 minutes before the company liquidated all of its assets.
The site just didnt catch on, what can I say? Nesheim told reporters of the website that, less than an hour earlier, he launched excitedly with the tagline Get ready for the next wave in social media. I posted some videos and messages on my little FrendTrend pod, as we called them, but there were only like five or six other users and they all worked for the company, so it was like, This sucks.
Its just too bad we have to pack up all this office furniture after unloading it only a couple of hours ago, Nesheim continued.
During a candid postmortem 10 minutes after the site had been removed and an hour after it had launched, Nesheim cited myriad difficulties in the sites first 15 or 20 minutes, including logistical hurdles, a stubborn market share, and administrative hassles.
Within 52 seconds of the sites launch, you could tell things werent looking good, and after 30 minutes I figured, All right, lets just give it 15 more minutes and if it hasnt taken off by then, fuck it, said Nesheim, who frantically and unsuccessfully attempted to sell the company to an outside investor within minutes of FrendTrend going live. It had so much promise when I walked into our office for the first time this morning. People just didnt give it a chance.
Although I guess the writing had been on the wall for minutes and minutes, Nesheim added.
Though disappointed by this latest setback, Nesheim told reporters he is excited to pitch investors on his next tech venture, a consumer-to-consumer online auction and shopping website called iBuy.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-social-media-startup-launches-shuts-down-withi,31557/?ref=auto
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