6.1 Plow share and Tow share

Description: An app based Towing/snow plowing service that most anyone can drive for and make some flexible income. For rural areas or as needed in urban areas, drivers would need a training course or challenge a test and an approved truck/vehicle. The app assigns you to areas nearest to where you currently are when the snowstorm hits or nearest to your house. The app would record video proof of the plowing you did and match it to satellite map images.

You could rent plows (we attach) for your own side hustle when freak snowstorms happen. City or municipality needs to pay drivers. Can hand shovel as well. Neighbourhoods could sign up to pay for this. A city authority determines when plowing is not needed and the app stops.

Pay by the square foot? How about when people shovel while snow is still falling? Do you pay per inch of depth? How do you prove that? You would have to have a benchmark of snowfall for the pay scale. Say $ amount multiplied by amount of snow on ground. Have people take before and after pictures with a ruler in the snow showing depth. How do you show area? Measuring tape and pictures of after to get paid. GPS tracking showing movement at an area where snow is (area they claimed) combined with weather data.

Would need people to sign up and receive measuring tape and ruler for a fee. Google maps?

Pros: the user takes the risk of making money or not. You could deliver these plows to different cities/regions at different times, depending on demand. This commercialises a way that young people made money in the past. It would also be an effective way of using local labour to clear the streets instead of relying on a limited supply of plow trucks.

Cons: landscaping companies transition to this in slow times you’re competing against landscaping crews. holding the cost of a gang of plows that rarely get rented. People could skip more work in order to make plow money. How much money could this make? Season is limited and possibly requires an on-the ground presence to catch cheaters. People could shovel areas that don’t need it, how can you police this? Show that the area isn’t a grass front yard, park etc. people stealing each others work, kicking them off an area. Damage to vehicles by improper towing techniques.

6.2 Boardgame float

Description: Board games that work floating in hot tub, sell as an add on to hot tub salespeople. They have to be designed to handle breezes, sand. One way is to have the pieces on string, tied to the board.

Pros board games are popular and so are hot tubs. This could become a fad and sell well. Both of these activities are popular in large get togethers for weekends.

Cons big board game company could take this from you, you would need their licensing for good board games. Do people want to play these in a hot-tub for a long period of time? Heat, pruned skin may make this idea not wanted.

6.3 Trucks!

Description: Trucks! A business that finds uses for its trucks as close as 24hrs as it can. Truck sharing app, moving, rental, taxi service, ect. Your truck gets parked where you want and you turn on the app, making it available to drivers from the app.

End of month could be useful, people moving. Weekend warrior landscapers, DIY people

Use cab over trucks with a similar business model of Car2Go. The trucks would have to be short cab (3 seater) with a dump. Requires a push broom chained to it to clean out the bed

Pros further monetizing work vehicles, fleets could make money while not in use. Renting a truck isn’t fast and easy in most cases, this is. Construction companies can have break downs and need another truck that day. Trucks are expensive in fuel and initial cost, this helps offset the costs.

Cons competing with multiple industries at the same time. Licensing/insurance. Car rental companies, truck rentals and car shares could copy this if it is profitable. Key system could be tricky. Dirty trucks, people leaving valuable things in it and stealing it. Drivers breaking the truck, overloading it. Who needs a truck at night? Most people use them for work during the day, may not be a market for this. Truck breaks down while someone else is using it, how do you insure this?

6.4 Essential Household Delivery

Description: Toilet paper delivery service. Use minivans to deliver TP all over the city in any quantity 24 hours a day. Monthly or more often deliveries, in bulk. Offer services to anywhere with a toilet, contracts to “never be out of TP”. Possibly could move to other essential household items such as toothpaste, floss, soap, shampoo, paper towel, cleaning products.

Sell to hostels, hotels, SRO’s, shelters, public park services.

Pros everyone needs this stuff, no one likes to shop for it or pay well paid employees to re-stock it. Don’t need trucks to deliver this, minivans and used SUVs much cheaper to buy and fuel. People will pay to not have to do this. Can use current ride share and delivery food drivers to deliver this.

Cons margins may be low, how do you get supplies? Costco or direct from manufacturer? Will competing brands use you? Only if your service makes enough money to be worth it for them. Legality of re-selling products?

6.5 Tight and Heavy Delivery

Description: Tight and heavy delivery services, carries heavy things into small parkades, elevators ect, towing vehicles out of parkades. Delivering furniture, appliances into small apartments. Removing old safes from houses.

Would need a niche like boiler installers, large electrical units, wood burners, towing, car wreck retrieval. This requires some specialized equipment like low profile tow trucks, carts, small crane lifts and electric pallet jacks.

Pros corner an un-tapped market, be the one to call in a major city. Customers may be concerned about damage to expensive heavy objects and prefer not to use man power to lift them.

Cons market may be very small and hard to get the word out to everyone about this service. May work best only in major dense cities. Companies may just use man power if they have to do this.

6.6 Shower Shave Mirror

Description: Make a full length mirror that attaches to one wall of your shower that has cold water cycling through the back of it (doesn’t fog up) to be used as a shave aid. Possibly better for the environment (no shave cream) but uses more water. Sell it infomercial style.

Has to trend and actually be easier than shaving currently is. Could be sold through big box stores or using viral online content.

This could be sold to plumbing companies as an add on for bathroom renovations or new builds.

Pros makes shaving full body easier, if it catches on everyone will want one, ask for them to be installed into their homes.

Cons will people pay for more plumbing in their shower? Will people want to shave in the shower at all? Extra water costs could be expensive in some areas. Could be easily copied, hard to set up by a layman in their shower possibly.

6.7 Ringers

Description: A temp service offering high performers for crunch times companies need an extra hand. Go through a rigorous application process, headhunt them pay them for the time of applying. Monetary penalty for showing up late, profiles online with pictures, availability. Proof of work/work ethic (prior experience, background). Find people by asking "who's there best/hardest worker you know?" Keep asking that question to grow network.

In the beginning focus on one type of expertise that is a production/speed based job (bricklaying, tax accounting, car detailing, sales) and branch out from there.

Pros looks for extreme people specifically, higher quality than other headhunting employment firms, grows network based instead of mining internet for mass underemployed people.

Cons: lots of competition already trying to find the rare hard workers with talent. The exceptional workers often have enough work already or own their businesses.

6.8 Bathroom Fans

Description: fans for bathrooms that can adjust loudness while you’re inside the bathroom to drown out the sound of usage. They can adjust their fins/grates to make different mechanical sounds as desired. A candle lighter or open flame lamp that can be turned on by a switch could be additional.

The goal could be to sell to big box stores in large contracts or to bathroom renovators, new builds as a feature.

Pros the need of this could be creatively sold using marketing, viral online content.

Cons could be easily copied by existing manufacturers, could’ve been done before. The margins for this may be too tight to profit off this.

6.9 Flagstone and radius tracer

Description: Stone tracer-has 8 (or more) spring loaded arms that spread out to the edges of what you're laying against, outside edge is a banding strap to trace up against

Give tester to stonemasons, let them use it for a week or when they’re next doing flagstone or infomercials. Sell to big box stores, masonry suppliers and to online construction trades’ social media groups.

Pros very useful for flagstone and other radius or odd shape requiring construction techniques. Can be bought by larger tool company

Cons small market and or small margins. Getting this in front of stonemasons and other trades will be hard, they may not adopt this as they already have methods they currently use without this tool.