/r/CrazyIdeas

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Is your idea too crazy to work? So crazy it might work? Perfect.

Create super hobos? Elaborate. Invisible spiders? Why not? There are no wrong ideas!

Rules
  1. Don't be a dick

  2. Submit original, interesting ideas. Sense, rationality, possibility and ethics are for sissies.

  3. If the entire purpose of the idea is the setup for a pun, it doesn't belong here.

3.1. As a rule of thumb, if your idea ends in "call it ___", it's probably a bad idea.

3.2. If an idea stands on its own as an interesting, crazy idea without the pun, submit it. Add the pun in the comments or maybe in the description if you really want to.

  • Posts shouldn't be for the sole purpose of complaining about a certain thing rather than add an alternative.

  • 4.1. Examples are "vote for Donald Trump" or "shut down Fox News". It's not a crazy idea, it's just being annoying.

    4.2. This goes for everything of the sort. No political bias here (we hope).

  • Please keep the circle jerk politics post to a minimum.

  • Some ideas are definitely more common than others. Use the search bar to see if it's been done before.

  • 6.1. "Hold a special Olympics where everyone takes drugs!"

    6.2. "Put all prisoners/politicians in an arena and make them fight to the death!"

    6.3. Literally anything to do with April Fools Day. If it involves April 1st, chances are you can remove the April 1st bit and it'd be just as valid.

    6.4. "For just one day, swap these two subreddits!"

  • Tag NSFW posts.

  • NOTE:

    Awesome ideas are just as welcome here as well. Anything is possible, anything you think about can work in your imagination. So don't comment saying "this belongs in /r/AwesomeIdeas!", we love you and accept you.

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    Anyone want drone delivery service?

    Does anyone else want stuff delivered by drone or am I the only one? I spend a bunch of time going around town sourcing the goods. I am an engineer and I would like to know if anybody else out there would like a delivery service.

    4 Comments
    2024/04/29
    21:31 UTC

    0

    Mexicans shouldn't be considered "illegal immigrants" in California / Arizona / New Mexico / Texas, because they're returning to their ancestral homeland

    12 Comments
    2024/04/29
    21:26 UTC

    7

    A reality show that gets washed up athletes back into shape.

    Get 27 men age 30 to 45 who played football in HS or college but "could have gone pro if it wasn't for...." and have a competition to get them into shape. Each episode someone is "cut from the team", where there was some spotlight challenge to be the fastest or the strongest.

    Get personal trainers and dieticians to come on the show, and help them train. While we watch them lose weight and increase speed and endurance you can go through the stories of how they ended up quitting football, adding drama and stakes for the audience.

    Once we get down to the last 11 players have them go up against a random high school team for their final "spotlight challenge".

    Season 2 can be American football.

    3 Comments
    2024/04/29
    21:04 UTC

    28

    Reddit AI that automatically places your question in the right sub

    Tired of bots and mods flagging posts for fringe questions the straddle lines between topics. make an AI that reads the content and suggests a sub.

    6 Comments
    2024/04/29
    19:11 UTC

    0

    Some funny hashtag shirts for men who wanna bring sexy back.

    • MakeWomenSexyAgain
    • ItsOkayToBeStraight
    • YesStillAintConsent4SomeReason
    • BBC4BBW
    • ChokeTheChickenPatTheCat
    5 Comments
    2024/04/29
    19:09 UTC

    0 Comments
    2024/04/29
    15:40 UTC

    6

    A cooking show/competition where top chefs must make a dinner for four using only ingredients available at the corner gas station/convenience store, and then serve them to a panel of judges who don't know where the ingredients came from.

    0 Comments
    2024/04/29
    14:07 UTC

    55

    'War Games' as a TV show, every country sends 100 soldiers

    Show people whu War is Hell, maybe with pretty coulors and 'Survivor'based rules

    31 Comments
    2024/04/29
    13:24 UTC

    4

    Block high karma by default

    Reddit has a quality problem. Instead of pseudo-rewarding karma farmers and thus encouraging bots, how about we start blocking them by default? Create an incentive structure (at least for the big subs) to create better content instead of just more.

    2 Comments
    2024/04/29
    10:35 UTC

    3

    Force all candidates for university chancellors to obtain a degree from the university

    0 Comments
    2024/04/29
    08:15 UTC

    16

    A reality show where they take flat earthers to space

    9 Comments
    2024/04/29
    08:12 UTC

    20

    Tanker trucks that do car to car refuelling on the road

    The Air Force can do air to air refuelling with tanker air craft, let’s apply that concept to the road.

    15 Comments
    2024/04/29
    04:48 UTC

    21

    A "drowsalyzer" that detects whether a driver was driving while drowsy

    7 Comments
    2024/04/29
    03:11 UTC

    191

    If Satanic possession is real, Satan could get every soul on Earth by adding a clause to a software licensing agreement.

    50 Comments
    2024/04/29
    02:29 UTC

    7

    T-shirts that express the sorrow and sadness men endure

    My wife left me, I just got dumped, My girlfriend met someone else, I lost my job in my 50s, etc

    9 Comments
    2024/04/28
    22:40 UTC

    4

    A Charity Foundation To Restore Businesses Lost To Covid

    1 Comment
    2024/04/28
    21:26 UTC

    1

    A cash bonus, payable to anyone whose work requires them to go to people's homes, funded by a tax

    The tax amount could be adjusted quarterly based on metrics like Rudeness, Violence, etc... so if people are especially nasty to Amazon drivers, and others, The tax rate goes up and the payout goes up.

    This would both provide a way to compensate these important workers, or encourage better behavior from the general public towards them.

    Payouts would not be available to law enforcement, of course.

    12 Comments
    2024/04/28
    20:18 UTC

    4

    Grocery store chain with zero waste/plastic - container free grocery

    The idea here is that items like milk, laundry detergent, cereal, etc is all in huge dispensers and you bring in your own containers. Then you just pay by weight. Zero plastics and eliminate packaging.

    I think people would flock to this if done correctly and if possible. I’m sure there are tons of hurdles which is why this is crazy idea. But I think it’s clear something needs to change to help save planet earth.

    Edit: typo

    5 Comments
    2024/04/28
    18:13 UTC

    371

    Stop Drive-thru litter by printing the number plate of cars ordering fast food at the drive thru on the bag.

    The litter around drive thru restaurants is so disgusting. Why not make people take ownership of their rubbish from the drive thru by printng the cars number plate on the bag when they order their food? Most drive thrus have automatic plate readers already so it wouldn’t be particularly expensive to implement. I think it would make most people think twice before littering if they knew it was potentially traceable back to them!

    78 Comments
    2024/04/28
    17:33 UTC

    0

    A kung fu action comedy movie version of the story of Jesus

    0 Comments
    2024/04/28
    16:56 UTC

    15

    Super fast gas stations

    A gas station that prioritizes speed at every point.

    Lowest hanging fruit, how quickly you go from stepping out of your car to pumping gas.

    Have the credit card swipe immediately, authorize, ask no questions about if you want your receipt, if you want to enter rewards numbers, if you want to have a car wash included, or ZIP Code. Maybe even only offer one choice of gasoline at each pump. One less button to click.

    1. Have it go straight from insert card, to start pumping gas.

    2. Pump gas at a higher rate than any of the other gas stations. Would be amazing to double the gallons per minute.

    Other less low hanging fruit would be: 3) having your license plate directly tied to your direct deposit account. You would not even have to swipe any card, which would save another few seconds, and the gas station would save 3% on credit card fees. That could be passed on as a $.10 discount or just caught as extra profits.

    And the ultimate set up, the gas station would be laid out like tollbooth where you basically pull off an exit right into your gas station lane, fill up, and gun it back onto the road again with the merging ramp.

    The massive downside to this, most of gas stations profit margins are in the convenience stores. So you still want people to go in there.

    Personally, that time it takes to go from getting out of your car to actually pumping gas is what made me think of this. There was a chain of gas stations that brand themselves on transaction speed, I would stop there every time.

    10 Comments
    2024/04/28
    16:52 UTC

    2

    Nonprofit casinos

    4 Comments
    2024/04/28
    16:46 UTC

    3

    Drone 3D printer

    Simply have the extruder on a very precise drone, allowing for infinite print size!

    6 Comments
    2024/04/28
    16:29 UTC

    0

    Putting an animation of the player character shooting themself in the head whenever you reload an earlier save point while surrounded by zombies.

    0 Comments
    2024/04/28
    15:44 UTC

    13

    Start an AI company that will provide a video of your ex apologizing for past misdeeds in order to provide closure for people

    2 Comments
    2024/04/28
    15:37 UTC

    20

    The right to a string quartet on every stop by highway patrol

    As they play calming music, one of them turns into a professional negotiator, another into a traffic lawyer, another into a salesman of the 11-99 foundation and the last one into a flamenco dancer. That should take care of the ticket.

    7 Comments
    2024/04/28
    10:30 UTC

    0

    Prefab houses and better transportation will reduce concentrated mass population problem ?

    I hope the world have enough resource to make a normal living at this rate of population growth even for centuries. but the population are concentrated on a one single place will brings a problem of resource's scarcity and supply chain, housing price, and a lot

    Here is the crazy idea, The Prefab houses that can easy to move one place to another when needed, will reduce the stress on resource scarcity on concentrated places. but there is a problem on on premise work requirements. If we can able to build a reliable transportation from living place to work place under 30 minutes will solve the problem ?

    5 Comments
    2024/04/28
    09:50 UTC

    23

    You know how we are making meat out of plants? What if we made plants out of meat!

    Grotesque and unnerving creations that blur the line between life and death. Imagine walking through a garden where sinewy vines of flesh twist and coil, the putrid scent of decay mingling with the soft rustle of meat leaves!!

    4 Comments
    2024/04/28
    08:29 UTC

    344

    China should create an industrial city named “USA”, so every product exported from there is “Made in USA”

    59 Comments
    2024/04/28
    07:16 UTC

    1

    Mix V8 with Vodka, call it Vodka 8.

    9 Comments
    2024/04/28
    03:09 UTC

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