Home property manager - never deal with tools again.

This seems feasible but then you would have to find both parties in a trx rather than just one. The warehouse model takes care of supply.

Valid points but the idea isn't strictly about tools. A power drill was just a easy to understand example because so many people have them and can relate. In fact, in the USA, most tools can be rented at Home Depot.

Can you find another example that isn't a tool / power tool?

grill, tent, suitcase, large cooking pot, bike, dumpster, sleeping bag, large fan, car jack, juicer

that's with ~30 seconds of thinking with no systematic method of brainstorming except looking around my house at **** I don't use but sorta have to own.

Many of these are rentable commodities, but there are players already in the marketplace. Unless you believe that the existing market is inefficient, or doesn't serve the community in your chosen area, then you're just duplicating what's already there.

Putting it under one roof may have some marginal value, but it also means your initial investment is huge and likely your large warehouse will be out of town, increasing delivery costs.

And for that reason, I'm out.

I like the idea of sharing things that you might need once in a blue moon, but it's not a stand-alone business operation - you can't scale things that are, by your definition, rarely used.

There's a website I've seen mentioned here that I can't recall atm: it's a social media site where you can chat with people who live in your community. I think your idea could be adapted by the website to be an excellent resource. Got a 4-person tent gathering dust in the garage? Fill out this form with the details and a picture, get it entered into the database. Guess the website could monetize it by taking a percentage of any rental, or it could just be a service provided to drive traffic.

The problem is that all these things have tons of cheap options. People would rather buy a $10 drill that falls apart after 5 uses than rent a $200 drill for $20+shipping and deal with shipping and having very limited time/deadline before more charges accrue.

People would rather hoard cheap junk than rent things that other people tell them are supposedly higher quality. The only exception seems to be millennials that are just getting their first paychecks and don't value money yet. To that small market, a lot of things can be sold. But people get smart pretty fast when they realize how much money they've blown.

Has anyone seen any automation in tailoring? Seems feasible to electronically scan/measure a customer vs having a tailor measure you. Isn't the actual tailoring process a good candidate for automation too? I would think that exact measurements and more measurements (more than the standard ~12 that tailors typically take) would also reduce the need for multiple fittings.

Measurement apps are great, but they use the camera and aren't that accurate. It would be cool to see an attachment to the phone that uses laser instead. "Plug the thing into the jack and point at what you want measure."

I've never tried one, but I'm guessing no one is sending in full nudes? If so, it's probably not the camera's fault. Blame the fit of the clothes the user is wearing. I don't see why a camera wouldn't be highly accurate, except that it's not seeing the true picture.

The directions usually suggest a tight fitting shirt/clothes/undies and it is supposed to happen automatically. One's photos are not being sent anywhere to be reviewed by any person. All cameras have distortions but the distortion is known and it is trivially easy to correct for this distortion.

I never tried these apps, but I do have a drone that can create very accurate 3D maps using Pix4D using only a camera that is similar to a cell phone camera. The only difference is that with tailor measurements, it would be the person moving around in front of the camera instead of the camera flying around the person.

I was imagining a B&M location (lol) with a device similar to an airport security scanner (arms overhead, fixed posture, etc) but a phone camera would make the tech even more accessible.

I guess the automation question comes down to, what percentage of existing manufacturing process is done by a person. And can more of the process be automated. IDK

In an Australian mall 2 years ago, I came across a booth that does exactly that -- you go inside, strip to your shorts, and get scanned in 3D. Their business model wasn't to do the tailoring themselves, it was to match you up with clothing brands and get the best fit from each brand's sizing.

re: mass custom tailoring, there are sites like Proper Cloth that take tailor's measurements and sew you a custom shirt.

Legal questions: Who owns your web data? If you assign your data rights to a company, does that establish ownership and limit the ability of other companies to share in your data without permission?

So a big car plant in my province recently went under; General motors oshawa. If I have a background with industrial equipment repair and can automate repairs with the use of co-op students on the cheap...

What happens with the plants inventory? is it shipped to other locations... Is their contractor opportunities to manage this inventory on an agreed appraisal etc...

nvm I am misinformed... Don't think they actually failed will look into the details..

a machine learning program that takes floor plans of new houses...

wait for it..

and re-imagines them

ill keep firing most of these are garbage but I think I might need to hear it.

I came up with a "creative promotions" idea the last time I got in a stupor and realized in the morning that its just an advertiser...

What does "reimagines" even mean?

It knocks down the wall between the kitchen and dining room to give a sort of ‘open concept’ feel

Does it nervously wait for the general contractor to tell it whether or not the wall is load-bearing?

I've been thinking about ideas for products that add some QoL improvements for people (pretty much everyone) who use web apps like the g suite on a daily basis.

One example could be a tool that basically filters out all mail in your gmail inbox from bloggers, email marketers, etc and ports it to a google doc. The idea is that most of that type of mail is pushed content that doesn't expect a reply from you and can really clutter your inbox. You could add in the ability to cluster common emails in google docs, aggregate links, etc.

I feel like Gmail already does this to an adequate degree. But maybe that's because I actually know how to ****ing use it (and unsubscribe from stuff).

Either way your example is not very compelling imo.

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That's fair. Maybe I'm just weird, but I stay subscribed to everything (because of fomo maybe?) but need to keep my inbox clean, which means I spend a ton of time compulsively marking emails as read and/or deleting them from my inbox and/or letting them pile up. I feel like having them automatically shifted to another place where I can scroll through them in batches seems like a nice improvement.

Maybe there are email clients that do this? But google docs seems like a more frictionless integration.