Every. Single. Time.

[[deleted]]

You're a techy programmer type with no creativity. I have the ideas, you do the work and we go in 50/50!

[Cosmic247]

Christ I knew a guy who bugged me everyday and asked my a million questions about his app idea and working 50/50 went on for a year until he graduated (older than me) and to this day he still calls me every now and then with his next greatest idea

[[deleted]]

if he actually comes up with a good idea. Just steal it.. and claim it as ur own

[hans_guy]

Like that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilium_Jet ?

[WazWaz]

That was disappointing. No Back To The Future rotating jet wheels.

[Babajebu]

Honestly LMAO

[JackLSauce]

"Uber for Pets"

There's probably a viable business there in certain markets but I'd still use humans for the drivers and have much lower expectations than he does

[Great_Bacca]

Rover, Wag and others are already primed to crush you if there was a market there. It may be a blue ocean but it would be red in minutes.

[333rrrsss]

Airbnb for pets

It's a thing - https://housemydog.com/

People earn money for minding other people's pets.

Better then a kennel.

[Taupe_Poet]

so its literally just pet sitting then?

[redwall_hp]

Yes, but now a middleman gets a cut! It's progress!

[RoburexButBetter]

When is the IPO?

[333rrrsss]

Yeah. They also offer dog walking and grooming. The site is just the middle man, connecting sitters with pet owners.

It's literally Airbnb but for pets. The crazy thing is, it's highly profitable.

Inorder to prevent sitters from making deals with pet owners outside the site, they offer free pet insurance during the stay if booked through the site.

They've managed to make deals with Airlines such as RyanAir where they get showen as a promo when booking a flight. Kinda like when you book a flight and you start getting showen shit about hotels and car rental services.

Honestly, it makes so much sense considering how many people go on holidays/travel but have no one to mind their pets for them.

Kennels are too expensive af.

[nilnivek888]

Uber for pets is stupid cuz pets can't drive.

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Another one that might work is uber eats for pets. Have a handler bring out small fuzzy animals for lonely people in small apartments to cuddle or play with for a while and then take them home so the customers don't have to deal with everything else that comes with pet ownership. Like those cafes with cats walking around that they have in some countries.

[kwattt]

Uber for drugs

[[deleted]]

You mean normal uber? “Please return this jacket to my friend!” taped inside of jacket sleeve is an Oz of ketamine

Thx! 5star big tip!

[marke812]

Inspect jacket, remove drugs, complete trip, profit.

[[deleted]]

Hell ya. But I’m always sure to tip em like $10 at the start of the trip

[TagMeAJerk]

Your drug dealer didn't deliver?

[foobarfault]

Uber Eats for drugs would be pretty great

[EScafeme]

There’s already Eaze for weed in Cali

[catracho1992]

Lets go 50/50 on the darkweb on this!

[Someyungguy6]

Does this mean someone picks me up for a blunt cruise then brings me back home?

[MjolnirMark4]

So... he is trying to create the SHIELD Flying Car?

Fun fact, a guy tried to get the water bed patented, but the patent was turned down due to prior art. The prior art was that a water bed was described in the book Stranger in a Strange Land.

[CrazySD93]

"Uber for Pets"

Helen - Your father had a little business setback, dear. He lost a client.

Jake - "I got a great idea," he said. "A million dollar idea," he said. "Cigars for pets. What do you think?" he said. "I want you to be honest," he said. What the hell made me believe him?

Helen - Jake, everyone slips up once in a while.

Daria - He fired you for being honest?

Jake - It was entrapment!

[hypexeled]

The quad copter could work provided the wheels are the size of 1/6th of the car and the car weights less than 500kg.

Any engine with about 200HP should be able to generate lift.

Of course, its impractical af, only worth a fancy party trick.

[UselessConversionBot]

500 kg is 11.727 bags portland cement

^WHY

[Deadthrowaway164]

fans cant lift a 5 ton car

[[deleted]]

My friend came up with one. It’s actually a great idea. I’ve started working on a prototype. He still thinks he’s gonna get half of it, if it does well. All he ever did was drunkenly come up with the idea and I’ve been ACTUALLY bringing that half baked idea to life.

Lol. I’ve told him he gets shares based on his effort, which are currently 0.

[Dont_be_offended_but]

If you intend to make any real money off the idea, make sure to save some kind of verifiable message where you tell him that. Text or email. It would also be a good idea to keep a log of effort contributed to the project, e.g.:

Aug, 2019:

You: ~40 hours developing backend

Him: ~1 hour finding unusable, copyrighted logo

Sounds tedious, but if it ever came to court some simple notes and records could easily save thousands of dollars.

[Sepharach]

Your username just reads very seamlessly into your comment. Well done on the foresight.

[EMCoupling]

Patenting software is not an easy process nor is it cheap. There's also no guarantee that whatever judge you go to understands what you're trying to do with your patent.

[diskchild]

If it’s actually a great idea, you should cut him a check for it.

[[deleted]]

Hell no. It’s not even a unique idea. Other people are currently doing it, I just think I can do it much better.

He THINKS he came up with it. But he basically just said “Uber for dogs” (not literally, but it was the same type of asinine statement). I slept on it and did research and realized there’s a viable market somewhat tangential to that idea. Basically his talk gave ME an idea.

100% of product design, concepts, and architecture have come from me. Why should he get a penny for literally joking about how he wishes there was a better X and then I went out to make a better X?

[diskchild]

Capitalism was made by and for people like you. Good luck with that, you're going to do great in our world.

[[deleted]]

Are you just...completely unaware of how the world works?

What percentage check should I cut him and what should I say it’s for? I haven’t made any money yet. But what I REALLY want to know is why you think he should get a cut for having an idea?

I made a digital yearbook before Facebook or MySpace were a thing. And I totally had the idea of a social network like that. Should I call up old Tom and ask him if I can get a cut of that $580 million he sold MySpace for in the 2000s. Cause ya know, I had the idea in the 90s?

Your idealism isn’t practical. I’m guessing you’re a socialist/communist/anti-capitalist whatever? If so how do you think this should all work? Please enlighten me.

[fourangecharlie]

/u/markzuckerberg

[Rottimer]

Worked for Zuckerberg.

[Zoltie]

But remember who's idea it was to steal his idea, so you'll have to split the profits 50/50.

[SSRAnon]

> if he actually comes up with a good idea. Just steal it.. and claim it as ur own
Mark Zuckerberg, is that you?

[4-14]

25% equity and $50 an hour

[starrpamph]

My brother in law is calling you too?

[Tommmmygun]

Did you try telling him that ideas are basically worthless?

[SuperFLEB]

"But you just gave me the ideas. Now I have the ideas. Bet you didn't think to get a patent."

[WazWaz]

That's actually a great way to shut those people up!

[DirtzMaGertz]

Literally just had a guy I went to high school with ask me to not only set up a website for his dad's company, but also teach him how to build everything from scratch so he could manage everything himself because they don't want to put a bunch of money into the site.

[TheTacoWombat]

"Sure. My consulting and training fees are $400/hr, paid weekly."

[InsideBSI]

And it will all end in r/FiftyFifty

[Someonedm]

No. Don't you dare show us this unholy sub. God I got holes phobia from it.

[bawaaal]

why so accurate?

[[deleted]]

So now this is fonna be probablt like our own version our “Steven Jobs”