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Business Idea: Agoraphobic Services (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by EriksonEnterprises@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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Honestly I believe this is a market that needs to be filled everywhere... All sorts of things like remote and in person services, and any range of things like chiropractors, dentists, etc who can come to them at their home. Maybe even going as far as replacing services like doordash/Instacart too, or possibly having some kinda non-profit situation who helps to pay for those things for them... This is something you'd be surprised how many people suffer from, yet have absolutely no assistance, even simple things like bringing groceries and having those costs offset/covered somehow, or maybe some other ideas...

Let me know what you think lol

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[–] Beneficial_Past_5683@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I think this is one of those business ideas that's fallen into the "ooh, we can do everything" elephant trap. What seems like a great opportunity is really too nebulous to pin down and market.

Your demand targets are spread thinly between people who don't even know they have agoraphobia, and just don't go out because they don't like it, and others that are sufferers who completely do get it and might occasionally treat themselves to a delivery as a treat.

On the supply side, a home delivery service is equal whether the customer has agoraphobia, is too fat to fit through their front door, if they're quadriplegic and wheelchair bound, or for people with no transport. So you're going to struggle to market this to them.

An added problem is it's not a condition anyone wants! An agoraphobe doesn't want to be part of a group that makes it easier to be agoraphobic. They either need CBT or a home supermarket delivery. Both of which are solid existing competition.

It's a bit like the business of selling alcohol to alcoholics, or gambling to gambling addicts. Businesss do it all day long, for a living, but not one distillery or bookmaker will ever list it in their mission statement.