r/CrazyIdeas 11h ago

A house swapping cleaning service. I clean your house, you clean mine.

97 Upvotes

I recently helped out a friend who was in a depression slump due to the loss of a close family member. It was hard work, the place was a wreck, but I happily did it because I knew it would greatly improve their mental state.

Then I went home.

To my depression hole, which is disgustingly dirty and hoardery.

I'm the friend who can and will send back an order for a friend because they got a tomato when they asked for no tomato, but won't ask again if my waiter forgets my ranch. That is to say, I want to take care of people that I love and will go out of my way to do so, but seem to have executive dysfunction when it comes to my own shit.

So! I propose a swapping service. I clean your house, you clean mine. You're nearby (but not on top of me, maybe quarantined to one room that I'll do last) so that I can run through things like "are we keeping this or throwing it away?" Or "you have 5 different sizes of pants, which ones fit you currently and which ones are we storing for weight loss/gain?" Etc. But you're entirely hands off, doing your own thing.

Then you come do the same thing at my place!


r/CrazyIdeas 16h ago

Instead of colonizing Mars, let's just destroy it.

81 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 1h ago

Levitory

Upvotes

A toilet that hovers above the floor. Make yourself the floater


r/CrazyIdeas 11h ago

T-shirts with zippers down the front

21 Upvotes

It might look ridiculous but that’s my god-given right


r/CrazyIdeas 7h ago

horse exoskeleton

9 Upvotes

exoskeleton put it on horse replace cars


r/CrazyIdeas 15h ago

Can we all agree to change this sub to r/saystupidshit

30 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 13h ago

What if “NASA space heaters” secretly mined crypto?

9 Upvotes

I have a terrible business idea.

Those tiny “NASA space heaters” sold in scammy ads should have a tiny crypto miner inside. It would still make heat, because the miner uses electricity and turns almost all of it into heat.

The customer thinks they bought a miracle heater. Meanwhile, the scammer gets free power for mining Alephium.

Sadly, an IceRiver AL0 does not mine Bitcoin. It uses about 100 watts and earns only around eight cents a day before costs.

Put 1,000 of them in homes, and the scammer might collect about $81 a day in coins. That sounds funny until you remember the machines cost $55,000 and need internet, cooling, repairs, and lots of angry customers asking why their “heater” barely warms a sock.

Also, 100 watts is weak for a room. It is basically a warm computer with a NASA sticker and a crime attached.

What could go wrong?


r/CrazyIdeas 9h ago

Commercial pilots have to demontrate they're fit to fly by commuting to airports in little biplanes.

3 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 5h ago

TV show still about crabs

1 Upvotes

But called deadliest crotch


r/CrazyIdeas 17h ago

Phone Scam centers turn into Elderly check-in service

9 Upvotes

Instead of doing dishonest work and defrauding money off people. Charge a monthly fee (no obligation) - to provide regular check-ins, reminders and friendly discussions with seniors etc.


r/CrazyIdeas 17h ago

evil aquarium that has visitors walk above pools on catwalks and they randomly open sometimes into shark tanks. if the person survives 10 seconds they get rescued. if they get eaten, the shark is executed by a torpedo

8 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 7h ago

Vehicle violation insurance

1 Upvotes

There should be insurance for parking tickets, speeding tickets and other minor moving violations.

You pay a monthly premium, and if you get a ticket, the policy covers some or all of the fine.

Obviously you couldn’t make it unlimited or you’d basically be selling a subscription to break traffic laws. It could work more like regular insurance: deductibles, annual coverage limits, exclusions for serious or reckless offenses, and premiums that increase when you get too many violations.

Maybe your first $115 parking ticket is covered, but getting six of them in three months makes your premium skyrocket or gets your policy canceled.

It could even incentivize better driving. Go a year without a ticket and your premium drops. Take a defensive driving course and get a discount.

It wouldn’t cover points, license suspensions, towing, impoundment, DUI/DWI, reckless driving or criminal offenses. Those consequences would still belong to the driver. It would just insure the unpredictable financial cost of ordinary parking and traffic violations.

We already insure ourselves against accidentally damaging our cars, homes, phones and other people's property. Why not insure ourselves against accidentally parking 15 minutes too long or getting photographed doing 37 in a 25?

Basically: Geico, but for the envelope under your windshield wiper.


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

r/ideas has censored me for too long. Uranium shoes

96 Upvotes

So everyone who wears them gets poisoned


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Pronounce all silent letters in English words with the exception of the silent "e" at the end of a word.

50 Upvotes

'Walk", "half", "salmon" etc. now have a pronounced L. "Castle", "thistle", etc. have a pronounced t."Knight" and "know" are pronounced with a k, and the "gh" is pronounced as f, like "cough" or "laugh." "Doubt" has a b (or a p, same idea though). The w before words like "write" is pronounced. "O" in "opossum." You get the idea.

We already do this with some words: "often" used to be officially pronounced without the t but many people pronounce the t. Why not do this with every word? This will make English a lot easier and intuitive to learn. I know it's a crazy idea though.


r/CrazyIdeas 17h ago

An app that turns off the "what's new in this app" for other apps

3 Upvotes

I only use a certain laptop occasionally. Every time I use it, every single app advertises new, but useless features on boot. I have to constantly dismiss these notifications. I'd rather have an app that does this for me automatically.


r/CrazyIdeas 19h ago

If a post get 100+ upvotes on Reddit, it cannot be deleted by moderators.

2 Upvotes

Mods should not be allowed to delete popular posts.


r/CrazyIdeas 11h ago

Names for the new coin

1 Upvotes

Eppy

Stein-Bean

Dump

Pedodollar


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

There needs a "Hard Pity" counter like in Gacha Games but in job applications, where instantly gives you the job you want after being rejected by so many companies when applying for a job

29 Upvotes

The hard pity for it would be 8 total rejections, while the soft pity counter would be in-between 5-7 rejections. The rejection counter is counted from different companies who rejected you based from Apathy ("We'll just call you back...", "Just leave your resume here and we'll consider it..." but never did in a single month or two), Transparency (basically they'll flat out tell you, whether in personal or in digital messaging like emails and texts, that you failed onto a specific application phase and they'll leave you out, or you didn't met the qualifications of the job), and some possible rare instance that I may not know yet.


r/CrazyIdeas 11h ago

Put all nukes on the lowest acessible point on earth and boom, and repeat

0 Upvotes

It will be a very big hole, i do that on minecraft its fun


r/CrazyIdeas 20h ago

1 world Language

4 Upvotes

Have 1 world language for communications. In preparation for this, teach kids in school it as a second language. If people have language that they are connected to in some ways like the jewish people with Hebrew or the catholic people like Latin that would be there second language and there would be no problem keeping that as a second language. The United Nations would have to be in charge of this. Another idea to make it equal for everyone make a whole new language so no one is more familiar with it than other people.tell me what you think.


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Split Chile into West and East Chile. One gets all the coastline, the other gets all the mountains.

71 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

A Margherita pizza and a Margarita cocktail should be called a “Marg meal”

14 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

I believe when you turn 25, the FBI should give you a free behavioral assessment.

26 Upvotes

Not because you’re in trouble, but because by 25 you’ve had enough life experience to reveal some pretty interesting patterns.

It could be like a routine checkup, except instead of checking your blood pressure, they’re checking to see if you’re the problem.


r/CrazyIdeas 21h ago

A flag for Free-Marketist Christians that a luminous divine hand holds a Lemon and there is a slogan it says when God gives you lemons, make lemonade in Latin.

2 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Engineer water to be much denser, increasing buoyancy so humans naturally float instead of sink. The goal would be to create “drown proof” water that could improve swimming safety, rescue training, and aquatic recreation.

63 Upvotes