5 Startups with Ideas So Absurdly Bad They Make Anyone Look Like a Genius

What do you think about buying a juice pack squeezer?

No, not a fruit juicer. A juice pack squeezer.

And why not pay a few dollars a month… to receive some coins in return?

Or better yet, how about buying garbage directly from New York?

If just these ideas already seem bad enough to you, read this article to the end, because you haven't seen anything yet.

We've listed the 5 worst business models — not to say the most incredibly stupid — of Tech Startups we could find.

We're talking about startups created by educated people, some of them even located in Silicon Valley itself, the pinnacle of technological disruption and innovation.

Without further ado, check out the list of the most brilliant ideas you'll see today:

1. Juicero

Why not pay 400 dollars to do something you could do yourself for free, with your own hands, with the same efficiency and in almost the same time a machine would take?

 

This is exactly the premise of Juicero, which sells a nearly $400 squeezer to press its own juice packs sold separately for $7 each — and which can only be purchased by people who already own a Juicero.

 

2. Washboard

In a world where the trend is increasingly toward digital payments and fintechs, Washboard decided to take an old school approach.

You know when you're out on the street needing some change to buy something inexpensive… but don't have a single coin in your wallet?

Your problems are over, because with this startup's brilliant idea, you can receive $20 in loose change delivered to your home so you'll never run short again… for the modest sum of $27 per month.

Yes, you pay $27 and get $20 back. Don't look at me like that — I didn't get it either.

By the way: the company has already vanished off the map.

3. Hushme

Tired of having to step out of the office to take your calls like a normal person?

Worried that people might overhear your conversation with your mother or your spouse?

Have you ever wanted to cosplay as Bane, the Batman villain?

All of this can be solved with Hushme, "the world's first voice mask for smartphones."

 

The gadget — with its very discreet design — is placed over the mouth and muffles your voice, allowing you to say whatever you want without any of your nosy coworkers hearing you.

 

The idea is actually not bad, to be honest.

But between spending nearly $120 to look like Hannibal Lecter himself and having to quickly get up from your chair to take a phone call… I believe most people would prefer the second option.

4. I Am Rich

Launched in 2008 on the Apple App Store, this application was at the time the equivalent of the many "quantum life coaches" we see everywhere today.

When you tapped the app, you were greeted by a completely groundbreaking mantra that promised to improve your day:

"I am rich. I deserv it. I am good, healthy and successful."

"I am rich. I deserve it. I am good, healthy and successful."

(And yes, they misspelled "deserve it.")

 

Indeed, you would have to be rich to have spent $999.99 on this application — and believe it or not, eight people actually did…

 

5. NYC Garbage

Literally, garbage. That is what this company sells.

Seriously.

Oh, and it comes in a fancy, transparent glass box.

And the garbage comes from New York.

 

 

We really wish this weren't true… but it is.

 

Source: Startse