10 crazy ideas that actually worked

The beauty of the Internet is undoubtedly related to the fact that there are no rules. Anyone can create a website with no idea in mind. This means that the amount of crazy things you see around you is great, but some of these crazy ideas end up working. Here are 10 of them. 
 

1. MillionDollarHomepage.com

Sale of pixels on a website is a ridiculous idea, but when it comes to the internet, ridiculous ideas have always been the key to the ridiculous amount of money. For Alex Tew sold pixels on a website just supposed to be something that will help pay for college. Little did I know that would be more than that and it would actually help you get a head start in life and now the young man is now worth over a million dollars. Interviews in major news networks and more publicity than a child of 21 years would know what to do with those who follow and soon other people even tried to piggyback on his idea. Now that is ridiculous, ridiculous success.

2. SantaMail.org

Each year it becomes more difficult to convince children that there is a real Santa Claus somewhere in the North Pole. But no child will say if they received a direct response from Santa and armed himself with this idea Byron Reese set out to become a real live Santa Claus for children around the world. Through the website SantaMail.org, children had the opportunity to send your letters to 'Santa' in the 'North Pole'. For a personal reply from Santa cost to parents, children $ 9.95. This may not seem like much until you multiply by 300 000 responses that 'Santa' sent last year.


3. ShitMyDadSays

What do you get when you put together an unemployed writer living with his parents, a very sarcastic father to mourn an adult and a Twitter account? In the experience of Justin Halpern, mentioned in The Daily Show, a book deal and last but not least an agreement of comedy. Just 30 days after the writer began to publish his father's "wisdom" in a twitter account, Justin Halpern was well on its way to a successful life without even trying.

4. WheresGeorge.com


We are always told to wash our hands after touching money, we do not know where the money has been. Now you may know exactly where your money has been just log in WheresGeorge.com. This web site keep track of your money by allowing users to enter their zip code and serial numbers of the currency. If the person who had the bill before you had done the same, you get to see what their money has been. It will also be able to see where the bill is if the new owner does the same. The website is currently tracking over 200 million bills worth over a billion U.S. dollars.

5. PickyDomains.com

At the beginning of the era of the "dot com" you could get paid thousands of dollars for a single domain name you called the attention of the appropriate people. Dmitry Davydov successful line went something like this, except to pay a measly fifty dollars for each domain name that occurred to him. Buyers liked since the risk-free and not have to pay anything if you do not like the name. Dmitry liked the idea because each domain name sold only meant fifty dollars to get to do something he liked. Soon the San Francisco Chronicle learned of his history and fame came to more customers. Crowd sourcing became the next step for Dmitry and the rest is history.

6. FindAGrave.Com


Visit to famous people is a creepy hobby. Visit after going on the idea that Jim Tipton used to achieve success. When Jim 'tombstone tourism "came to a sudden halt after it ran out of dead celebrities to visit in his native Utah, began FindAGrave.com, a site dedicated to locating the graves of people buried anywhere within U.S. More than enough people were happy to make use of the site and genealogy research very soon and other payment services are also offered on the website.

7. Doggles.com

May have been the most useless invention in the world, but never gave Ken and Roni Lullo, this crazy idea turned out to be worth millions. Most dog owners would never have thought to buy sunglasses for their dogs, but "Doggles" the moment he began to be marketed as a shield against UV radiation, thousands of dog owners rushed to get a pair their dogs. The result? Cool looking dogs and two new members into the club of millionaires with a chain of stores in 16 countries around the world.

8. GeesePoliceInc.com

It may not be an online business, but it was with the help of the internet that David Marcks succeeded in changing a relatively simple idea into a $ 2 million a year company. In the 1980s, David noticed two things while working on the golf course. First, the wild geese were proving to be very irritating and secondly, the Border Collie was extraordinarily effective in deterring the birds. Putting these two together, David Marcks started his own business which now has 27 trucks and 32 dogs with a mission to deliver to any place of wild geese.

9. BugMeNot.com

Most Internet users agree that there is nothing more irritating than having to register to access a site that is already free. However, no agree more to this the fact that King Guy and that is why he decided to do something about it. BugMeNot.com is a free web service that began with the king to provide instant logons free sites (such as YouTube.com or NYTimes.com) and the site was a great success because many users were tired of having to waste time on meaningless registration process and having to expose their email addresses to send spam. In an ironic twist, BugMeNot.com have advertising, simply because they tried to close in 2004. After a mere mention of this in Wired magazine, the website attracted the attention of more and soon to expand into other niches as Retailmenot.com.

10. ShoppingCartAbuse.Com

Only a fool would fall for such an idea. Luckily for the owner of ShoppingCartAbuse.com there are a lot of crazy people out there. According to the description of the website, "The Center for Shopping Cart Abuse Prevention is an organization dedicated to preventing abuse of the pervasiveness of Shopping." T-shirts and other business interests, the website became an instant hit, and even some Hollywood celebrities could not resist being part of this "campaign".

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