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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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[–] The137@alien.top 1 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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