Dumbass Business Ideas
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HN · launched Nov 14, 2025 · 42 upvotes (top 20%) · 0 views
Niche: novelty and humor web apps · 188 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -53% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 188 launches in novelty and humor web apps →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a novelty joke website displaying and collecting funny business ideas, which is a straightforward CRUD and UI app easily built with modern web frameworks.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Halfbakery, Chindōgu, Fucked Company
Concerns raised: Ideas are AI-generated rather than user-submitted or real attempts, Lacks actual business failures and historical context, Vote counts create bias in selections
Feature requests: Hide vote counts until after user selection, Feature ideas people actually attempted to build, Include real business failures with facts/history
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 113 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 114 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 15 days after the earliest competitor.
- Loop your agents like a dandy little b*tch · hn · 2026-03-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- IdeasNest · ph · 2026-10-06 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- killmyidea · github · 2026-09-17 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Startup Malpractice Quiz · ph · 2026-10-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Helping aspiring founders with startup ideas · hn · 2025-12-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- StartsNest · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- absurd.website · ph · 2026-11-02 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- The Worst AI Studio Ever · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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