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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 11 months 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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[–] The137@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I basically invented the influencer model in the early days of twitter. It was a bit different tho. Hyper-local, I was going to represent the city/area and gain a following by posting events. My idea was that once I had enough of the city following the account(s), I could charge a few bucks to post maybe a restaurants specials for the night, or bring attention to a new business opening up. All while continuing to post events like concerts, comedy and workshops free to establish relationships and gain users. I was going to expand to a web page with a big calendar too, but social was step 1. It wasn't even really the focus if im being honest, it was the marketing plan

All I kept hearing from my mentor at the time was "nOonNeS gO1nG t0 pAy foR a TwEeT" (well, he was a boomer so it was a little bit different but im embellishing the quote for the post ok?)

My point is, if you have a vision, something that breaks the mold, the natural reaction from normies is going to be a bunch of reasons why it wont work. Push thru the noise, better to have failure than regret.

[–] LvrkyMcLvrkface@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

So since you wrote what you were going to do and about ideas: Did anyone actually pay for your tweets?