What was the dumbest million-dollar tech idea that someone ever proposed to you?

Someone tried to sell a friend a membership to the new internet. She asked me to sit in and listen

to the sales guy's pitch. At the time, I was running a web hosting business, along with managing

a smaller Dial-Up ISPs networking infrastructure. The new internet was going to be built new from the ground up.

All new infrastructure, but without all the stuff that makes the internet bad.

The sales guy couldn't really explain how that was going to work.

For only $50, my friend would get a lifetime membership.

Members of the new internet could surf the old

internet and enter information about old internet web pages into a form on the new internet about

those old internet pages. Then the new internet could suggest pages on the old internet when

members of the new internet did searches about them. The members of the new internet would get paid for entering this information on the new internet's system.

So, after a while, new internet's members would start making money and recover their membership fee.

Any proposal that involves description along the lines of members would start making money and recover their membership

fees, should immediately set off about a dozen alarm bells, no matter what it's about.

So, it's Wikipedia, but as a pyramid scheme?

My uncle suggested I create a type of digital map that could direct you places and help you get from point A to point B.

He suggested this three weeks ago,

original post from 2019. My favorite but dumbest was Chipotle Date, which would match you with people

with similar or compatible Chipotle orders. I mean, this has potential. It does because all of the

cute boys are at Chipotle. I think it's so dumb that it actually goes full circle into genius territory.

All I see is untapped potential.

I mean it's so off the wall that I guarantee it will become a trending meme, and from there you'll see profits rise exponentially.

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