7.1 Cat Shaming Sweater

Description: Cat shaming sweaters that you can change the shaming message using Velcro letters and numbers, custom labels. Sell online in any store that sells pet products. Try to get popular pet social media accounts to use these.

Offer multiple languages, alphabets.

Pros funny and trendy, good gag gift. People love pets and showing them off/dressing them up. The changeable letters/numbers/languages give a lot of creative potential.

Cons easily copied and hard to patent if at all, based on a fad, may end quickly

7.2 Textbook Auctions

Description: App/site for textbooks buy and sell. These exist on different platforms and school sites/groups, you would have to use a search engine model that captures info from different sites and different universities and colleges.

Some of these schools could be very far from each other. This site would provide a brokering service for a fee is the books have to cross large distances.

Pros textbooks are expensive and go out of date quickly. There is no centralized store/location to find and trade them.

Cons margins may be limited to data selling and ad revenue.

7.3 Zoo Tube

Description: Have a game reserve or zoo that has half-circle tubes running through it on the ground. They have one-way glass and are sound deadened (if both is possible) so that the animals are able to be themselves without noticing people around. People would be encouraged to be quiet inside the tubes, feed troughs would be placed on/nearby to get the animals close to the tubes. The tubes could be built to work as barriers as well as viewing areas.

Pros families get to visit zoos more ethically than the former models of pestering the animals and boring them in small enclosures.

Cons some animal rights activists who are against zoos may not adopt this as good either. Would the animals come near the viewing areas at all? Or would they sense people are there and be bothered the same as a regular zoo.

7.4 Triple Layer Urban Transit

Description: The top layer is high speed passenger trains, middle layer is industrial/freight trains and bottom layer is a cavity for water, sewage, electricity, fibre optic and other cables and pipes. You build it all at once and it becomes a main artery of a city or city to city. You could add other trains on the left and right to adjust to demand. The top layer is at a sidewalk level or higher for people to view where they are. The bottom layer needs rails inside it to access areas to fix easily by electric carts. Needs to be big enough for repairmen to work easily inside it.

The utilities level needs to be engineered large enough and strong enough to facilitate future increased capacity of pipes and weight of trains overhead.

Under road utilities, have the tunnel be on seismic floating foundations so the whole system can move like a snake in case of major earthquake.

Pros one-conduit delivery system of everything, reduces repair costs, timing of deliveries and people. This should save a city infrastructure costs, simplify the delivery of everything. Repairs become more accessible, and delivery of bulk goods avoids using large trucks that block and/or slow traffic. This reduces the cars per area of a city. Utilities diagnosis and repair becomes simpler/easier instead of requiring excavation.

Cons competing against major engineering firms, international contracts and city worker/construction unions. There is a lot of money spent and made doing things less efficiently. Condensing everything together makes it more vulnerable to sabotage, terrorist attack and unintended accidents.

7.5 Track my Food

Description: An app that scans your groceries and gives you a route map of how it got there, what companies own it, video feed of the farm it came from and anything else related to this.
(Source the food app, may be already done)

This would have to start with a niche product or type of products, vegetables only for example. Or a specific grocery store chain.

Pros people want this, likely big buy in from western populations. Organic farmers or nearly organic farmers (didn’t want to pay for organic license) would buy into this to prove their products. Could help organic profit as transparent vs “the rest” or “dirty food”. Food producers who refused to be on this app may be shunned or deemed suspicious, reducing sales. Certain grocery chains could use this to promote their ethics and transparency and increase sales.

Cons many food firms will refuse to be part of this (possibly only at first). Firms cheating, putting fake links to their products, or misleading the user in other ways.

7.6 Retire Abroad

Description: A business that enables retirees to live in a foreign country when they retire. How much does it cost, safety, extraction risk/services due to political upheaval, taxes ect. Could be a temporary measure until they get too old and need to return to country of origin, may have saved enough to do this. Some customers will not be cost sensitive and choose to stay until they pass.

Start with one country that is for financial reasons (Costa Rica for Canadians and Americans) and one that doesn’t have as much of a financial constraint (Spain for Canadians).

Provide extraction services, health insurance (local rates?) moving services, local security from robbery, in home health services ect. You have to be the contact for them, possibly an office in the area that a bunch of retirees live or a regularly visiting representative.

Selling to seniors has to be word of mouth and direct selling. Less internet for older seniors, but also younger seniors (closer to 65) are internet skilled. A sales consultant that comes to the potential customers house may be the way to sell this to seniors.

Pros retiring in the sun has always been popular, this turns the dream into reality. Seniors may be scared of doing all the work of this themselves, especially if they haven’t travelled much. There are plenty of people in nations with strong currencies that will be in danger of outliving their retirement savings. This gives them an option.

Cons margins may be tight as some seniors don’t have much money. Sex tourists may use this service. In the event of a dangerous situation and/or robbery, can you assist these people in time.

7.7 Poison caulking/gap filler

Description: Caulking and gap filler that has a chemical property that kills or prevents insects and animals from entering the area filled. Possibly a texture filler like spackling or a paint as well. How can something stay potent over the long term? Very toxic stuff over time?

This would be particularly useful for rental units as the landlord can’t be there all the time to check on maintenance of the building.

Pros keeps bugs from entering holes and cracks in your house by using a two-prong method, fill the hole and repel the critter trying to dig through it. Insects wreck and destroy buildings if left unchecked.

Cons insects would simply find a way around this and dig or bite through another material. Could this product be harmful for pets and people? Even if it isn’t, people could assume that it is.

7.8 real world car testing

Description: test every new car and used cars using a race car driver, construction worker, new driver and stuntperson. Key in this is colourful personality and some standard and some odd tests. Could start as an online channel eventually to a TV show. Start with one country and all the vehicles currently for sale, then expand from there. The tests need to be standardized and unique (this could be boring though, data worth clicks) to provide accurate test data.

These odd tests could be combined with more traditional metrics/data on car reliability to create an overall rating/score.

Used cars tested at 100,000km may be useful for the used car buying public. Or used cars 5 years, 10 years old.

Pros people love cars and watching ridiculous stuff. Vehicles are a significant investment and repairs are not cheap in many places. The conclusions drawn could be very helpful to buyers.

Cons vehicle manufacturers may try to bribe/donate money to influence results. There are many competitors in this space.

7.9 Shoe Testing

Description: something that could accurately measure use of products such as shoes, tires. A usage sensor? Phone app, something people can set and forget. Insole, Arch support that records hours worn, impact, hardness of use. Powered by the compression of foot to insole or a small battery.

Incentivize this, pay people to attach sensors and upload data. Use our arches and get paid a one-time cash amount or cents per km walked/steps. Payment could also be a discount on new shoe purchases. To get paid on the back end they have to upload pics of their used/broken shoes. Before and after pics needed.

A good market for this could be hiking boots and construction boots, the customers are interested in durability/longevity.

This could be sold to a quality shoe manufacturer to prove their products are superior or a shoe store chain.

Pros people want to know what shoes last the longest with real world data. Some shoe manufacturers want to show how durable their products are.

Cons users could fake shoe usage, hook it up to simple robots. Is this being done already? Use two pairs of shoes to show before after and fake the steps. Big tech could just steal this idea and make their own version. Margins may be low for a very long time as people buy in.