This page is where I want to leave great ideas. If you have money or interest in making any of my ideas into reality, all I ask is that you give me 1% of the profits once the idea starts making money. That’s a deal!
What’s the catch? My ideas are often very big, expensive to execute, and take someone with vision. I think any one of these ideas could make someone a good living, but it takes money to make money.
In no particular order:
IDEA #1
Restaurant on the lake. You buy property with a pond or lake. 10-20 acre lake is perfect. Build 5-8 floating huts and anchor them in a circle around the lake with one in the center. These huts should be appropriated with solar lights. The center hut is for the live band and the surrounding huts are for groups of 12 to rent for dinner for the night. Renting a dinner hut might cost the group $1000 for a night. The groups will arrive at set times that are 15 minutes apart and they will be put on a small pontoon to be delivered to their hut for the evening. On the edge of the lake is an outdoor kitchen setup. It’s either a cooler run by extension cord or big Yeti coolers with product and a stainless table. A hand washing sink will be essential of course.
As parties arrive and are driven to their huts, salads start to be prepared. Groups have preordered food and drinks. Drinks will be waiting on the hut in coolers and salads will be delivered by boat.
On the shore is a nice wood fired pizza oven. Pizzas are made and sent out to huts by boat. Potentially pasta or sandwiches could be prepared lakeside, but for my vision it’s large pizzas, large enough for 3 pizzas per group of 12. I think a focaccia style crust would be good as it would be filling and travel well.
Parties are fed, first to arrive are first to eat. The band plays in the middle. Drinks are available and in place, salads and pizzas arrive, then desserts. Parties spend 3 hours on the lake and there is only one seating per night.
There may have to be some experimentation on price and food and boat delivery to sort out what’s profitable. The band will need a few hundred dollars. They will need to play acoustic but with it being a lake the sound should travel nicely.
The huts will need to be perfectly appropriated with comfortable seating and lights for the right ambiance. The food needs to be to notch to warrant the high price.
IDEA #2
Natural lazy river and theme park. Buy 200+ acres. Dig a lazy river that winds around the outskirts of the property so that there is a place to start and 2 hours later to end at the same spot, a circle but winding. Conversely, there could be a 3 hour float with a cut through in the middle that makes a 1.5 hour float if you take the shortcut.
There will need to be ample parking and a check-in spot to pay admission. In the center of the park is a great BBQ spot. The BBQ should be simple, maybe just pulled pork sandwiches. The sides should be simple, maybe just beans or fries or both. Potentially the menu could grow but only if each item was absolutely mouth watering amazing. Simple menu is best. Sweet tea, boiled peanuts, fries and baked beans.
There should be a series of walkable trails through the park. They all lead to the BBQ eventually, or pass through there. There should be some bike trails specifically for bikes with jumps and hills. There should be at least one ropes course and ideally a zipline.
People can use tubes to float and leave them at take out spots to walk or do ropes course or zipline. There should be a few bigger pools for swimming and diving and jumping from higher rocks or bluffs. There should be a few rope swings that are safe and have a lifeguard.
So you’re in the woods, you can spend the entire day. You can eat lunch, walk, exercise, ride bikes, zipline, swim, and all within a natural setting, not a fake Disney type setting. Ideally the water for the lazy river and pools would be from the aquifer. Water would come up and feed the river (spring fed, so cold) and then return the the aquifer. Natural nature. Is that even possible to achieve? It must be.
Alternatives to BBQ could be tacos. This could be the best park in the world. It would be great if artist could build sculptures here and there on the trails. Maybe if the property is big enough there could be camping, concerts at night, cabins to rent, and a breakfast spot with the best biscuits and grits anyone has ever tasted, and a fancy dinner pizzeria with amazing salad that has spinach, goat cheese, blueberries, and whatever else it needs to be amazing.
IDEA #3
Lasagna and bread. You figure out how to make the ultimate best lasagna ever. You make a meat and a veggie version. You make incredible bread. You open a restaurant that only serves meat or vegetarian lasagna with bread. You make a killing and you are just keeping it simple. Everyone wants lasagna and bread if it’s good.
IDEA #4
Buggies and brellas. There are no good carts or nice umbrellas for the beach. You open a store at the beach called Buggies and Brellas. You sell really nice simple beach buggies with fat tires, for pulling your crap to the beach. You sell nice umbrellas, not cheap shit. You can sell chairs, sunscreen and towels but everything should be high quality. This store is for people who live at the beach and want quality stuff. One employee, great high quality beach gear. If you could start the factory to make all the stuff you’d have even more advantage. But that’s another idea I guess. Quality always sells.
IDEA #5
The last appliances you will ever buy. Start a manufacturing company in USA that makes washers and dryers without computer boards, but old school analog knobs. Make these machines fixable by the owners. Sell parts and link to videos on how to fix these machines for homeowners. These appliances should be made using thick steel and easy to remove knobs and easy to work on. They would be engineered to fix over and over. There is absolutely no reason a washer and dryer (refrigerator, dishwasher, and/or stove and oven) cannot last a lifetime and be repaired by a homeowner simply with tools like screwdrivers. The machines need to be properly engineered and made with high quality materials. You will corner the market. Everyone will prefer to pay 3x the price to have something they don’t have to ever worry about dumping. All repairs will be easy to fix by watching videos on the problem with potential solutions and links to parts that aren’t exorbitant. You’ve just disrupted an entire appliance industry- big time.
IDEA #6
Satchels Secret Salad Dressing. Now this idea might cost you more than 1%, but it’s easier to execute. Satchel’s Pizza in Gainesville had the best salad dressing on the planet. Some people use it for a marinade. Procure a space to mass produce this product and sell it to grocery stores around the country. BAM, it won’t be long and you’re a millionaire with a 10-50x return on your investment.
IDEA #7
Satch Soda. More than a 1% idea here also. At Satchel’s Pizza there are homemade sodas with real sugar. Procure a space to mass produce these and can them. Sell to grocers all over America as a craft soda brand without artificial ingredients. BAM! Before you know it Coke wants to buy you out for 5 million dollars and you can do that or just ride it out until the business is worth 50 million. It’s just sugar water and I’m here to tell you- I’m serious. If I wasn’t so busy making art I’d be so busy making money. 😆
IDEA #8
Podcast Central. A website and/or app that is where you go to give money to any podcast and to get swag. If you listen to 15 podcast but only have $50 you want to donate, you go to this page and put on the amount you want to give. Then choose the podcast you want to give to and use sliders to increase giving to ones you like most while the amount to the others will automatically decrease. You put the podcast in order of most favorite to least favorite and as you move your slider the monetary amounts change for each podcast according to the total amount you are giving. Once you are happy with your amounts you hit send. Podcasts can show rewards on this site for certain gift amounts. Maybe by giving $20 you get a mug from one podcast or $40 gets you a T-shirt from another. You can make one time or recurring gifts easily because the website or app is designed so intuitively.
Podcasts will all want to be involved because it’s much easier to give in one place and give one time than sign up for 10 podcasts plus deals, or pay different podcasts monthly. If you are the person inventing app or website, like I wish I was, you can clearly state at the top of the main page that the service fee is 2% for all transactions, to pay for the site and fees. People don’t mind a fee if you aren’t greedy and 2% of a billion dollar market is like a lot of money. But remember, 1% for me, 1% for you🤩