What warehouse personnel are you getting rid of? Or customer service?

Instead of delivering packages to the end user, you’re delivering packages to the house down the street from the end user.

If anything, this model is less convenient.

btc clearly knows nothing about shipping. The major shipping companies all use a hub-satellite model because centralization of shipping is the only way to achieve the economies of scale to ship things at a reasonable cost and still make a profit.

Instead of all the delivering to end users, less drivers are needed to deliver to point A (neighborhood associate) only. Less warehousing and customer service are needed with limited interactions happening only between the carrier and the neighborhood associate. The shipping model is not disrupted here, only the last mile delivery. I've made no assertions otherwise, so not sure what applesauce is disputing.

Would you rather have Amazon/UPS/FEDEX entering your home when you're not there or having your neighbor hold your package until you can pickup or are home to receive it?

Are you trying to suggest that amazon would no longer need large warehouses with your model?

So when the plane lands at night, rather than packing one large truck and moving it to their warehouse for sorting, they’re somehow going to unload the plan onto a bunch of smaller trucks that are going to ship directly to your hypothetical neighbourhood drop spots?

They'd certainly need less total space and eventually would be unnecessary. You'd be able to store your inventory locally or any where else regionally in the network on the chain.

No.

Amazon wouldn't need a large warehouse for inventory because the inventory would be stored in each of the neighborhood locations?

Here's something I thought of.

An app that you use to record your turds. You take a picture of your dump, it stores a picture of your turds in a database and analyzes the size, texture, frequency, all that good stuff. Then the app could give you advice on how frequent you are, what type of dumps you're having, if you should ask your doctor any questions, etc. And you could whip out your phone and show your doctor all your dumps with timestamps and whatnot.

Average UPS driver delivers about 120 packages/day.

I live on Manhattan, big population density. My building has no doorman and sometimes I get paranoid about expensive items, and items delivered when I am out of town. This seems like the perfect place for bulk deliveries.

Delivery companies have been trying to solve last-mile problems for a long time and lots of options exist to basically fulfill the function you envision.

For myself, there is an Amazon Locker 6 blocks away and countless UPS/etc shops. But the "convenient" thing to do is to just "risk it." I've never had a package stolen in my life and if the retailer doesn't reimburse me then my credit card will so what's the point? There is nothing convenient about scheduling a meetup with some random dude to pick up my package. The convenient thing is to have my package waiting by my door.

All that said, lots of startups are experimenting with delivery lockers. Amazon Lockers are transitioning to The Hub. This further erases the need to have neighbors serving as hubs. (Neighbors = labor = expensive.)

Here's another neighborly storage solution https://www.storewithneighbor.com/.

The hubs could be used by the neighborhood agents just as drivers would load them up today. The hub doesn't erase the need for someone (or something) to deliver. Amazon isn't beaming packages from the warehouse to the hub, yet

Poopr: Uber for picking up dog poop

When you're walking your dog and it does a poop, pull out your phone and summon a scooper to come and collect it so you don't have to. You tip them via the app (could add a crypto element to it, but that would complicate it unnecessarily).

Being a scooper is a gig economy job. As you're out and about doing your daily business, you carry plastic bags and activate your scooper profile on the app whenever you feel like it. When there's poop to be collected within a 200 metre radius, you get a push notification then you can accept or decline the job.

It's a cross between Uber and Task Rabbit, but no skill required and absolutely minimal start up costs. All you need is a smartphone and some plastic bags.

^ Poopr: When you can't scoop hi/lo pots, scoop something else instead

To clarify this, I meant minimal start up costs to become a scooper. Obviously to build the business there are plenty of start up costs, mostly app dev.

Here's a free startup idea: cruise missiles that are integrated with Twitter

a DNA based fitness solution.

something where you send in a cheek swipe, and we pretend to customize a workout/diet/etc plan based on your genetic profile but really we just laugh at idiots sending in their DNA and then backdoor it all to Russians for double profits.

thinking I have a niche market for organic farming(animals and vegetation) in a rural area where it is pretty rare. Local grocers carry some basics(Horizon milk, maybe some produce, but nothing too glamorous) but farm to table in a day or a few hours is rare. The stuff can sell itself with the right recipe. Of course, it is not that prevalent now, people would need to be persuaded, time to bust out the skills bros

Still waiting for Loz Feliz hipster mini-golf.

I remember reading or hearing of something like, "the 7 questions to ask yourself before you start your company." Is anyone familiar with something like this? point me to the questions?

still, a longshot to do this but I've got plenty of time on my side, 15-minute blocks of work at a time achieves a lot, positive thinking, envision

Sure, can't imagine how that could go wrong

Been thinking about the possibilities for a professional sumo league. Fast paced action that is bettor friendly and family friendly. A more elegant version of UFC with none of the blood, yet all of the excitement.

Not fatty's in thongs though. These hypothetical athletes would come in all shapes and sizes and have modernized ring attire. The ring itself would also be changed slightly to accommodate a few new rules as well.

Celebrity sumo, social media sumo, reality sumo, all types of event marketing opportunities.

Would you watch two characters try and knock each other out of a ring or take each other down?

I have gotten nowhere ftw, fml

Programmable swappable smart watch. The watch is a blank slate with some basic functions. But developers have total freedom to do what they want with it via apps. So it would be a plaything for devs at first, but then if an app community builds up it could take off as a consumer item.

The watch itself also snaps in and out of the band easily - so people could have multiple "cartridges" for different situations (hiking, running, work). And they could even mount cartridges in weird places - like on the side of your monitor at work, or on the fridge or something.

External surface mount sold separately. A version come with real batteries that rarely need to be replaced - to charge the little watch battery.

I should do a kickstarter video.

In places where prostitution is legal, how much price discrimination is there? I imagine there are a lot of women who would like to be a highly selective, part-time prostitute but are completely unwilling to be a full-time, take-on-all-comers prostitute. My conception (and I may be way off, since such depravity is illegal in USA#1) is that basically all prostitutes in a place like the Netherlands or the UK accept pretty much anyone, and at the same rate. I would think that prostitutes or potential prostitutes would much prefer an attractive man (read: less gross), and therefore would be willing to offer a lower rate (or for the potential prostitutes, be willing to offer service).

If price discrimination doesn't yet widely exist in this market, it seems like there's a big opportunity for a website or app where prostitutes essentially bid on clients. So it could look something like a dating site, where clients (men) set up short bios and upload pictures of themselves. Then the client messages the providers (women) with propositions, or the client posts a proposition of "I would like X and I'm willing to pay Y," and providers can scroll through the open propositions and respond to those they're willing to accept.

This seems like it would be *disruptive*, though, again, it may already exist. People living in these sin-countries will have to comment.

Airbnb prostitute edition sounds awesome.

This is basically seeking arrangement