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What's a business that when you first heard it, thought it was the dumbest idea in the world, and it turned out to be hugely successful? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Low-Helicopter-2696@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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Airbnb sounded like a horrible idea to me. Who the heck would rent out a single room? Sounded like a recipe for murder.

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[–] Wattwiz@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Selling bottled water. Door dash.

[–] brad9991@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like Door Dash is "successful" in that it's a household name but they still aren't a profitable company

[–] SelectionCurrent5942@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know if I found this dumb, weird or smart, but I was shocked about this business that makes money giving away Free Water

These guys basically get sponsors to pay them to put their branding across 1000s of water bottles.

They then go to a specific area that matches their brands target audience and hand out all these bottles away for free. (Events, college etc)

Not only do the sponsors get exposure from street traffic but they actually get 100s of thousands, some times millions of views from the bottles in their viral TikTok videos