/r/CrazyIdeas
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!
Don't be a dick
Submit original, interesting ideas. Leave sense, rationality, possibility, and ethics to boring people.
Posts must be proposals for new, crazy ideas. Puns, jokes, and wordplay are only allowed as incidental components of more-complete concepts.
No complaining or soapboxing. Offer an (insane) alternative instead.
No posts referencing or relating to politics or political figures.
No done-to-death ideas. If you can find a version of your idea by searching /r/CrazyIdeas, then you aren't being creative enough.
Tag NSFW posts.
NOTE:
Awesome ideas are just as welcome here.
Don't comment saying "This belongs in /r/AwesomeIdeas!"
/r/CrazyIdeas
So hear me out. People keep talking about AI not doing the best with images and talk about how we just feed it all the info on the internet.
Well what if we put cameras in designated access points so that the AI can learn from us.
Either that or maybe make a robot with eyes so it can learn from us.
Even better if we had other things into it. What if we added taste, haptics, and other senses. It would be able to learn so fast.
Hey all,
I have this crazy idea which I have implemented.
A free to play lottery game.
Find 5 numbers out of 31 and earn the jackpot. Each player has 10 tickets/day
The jackpot increases everyday if there is no winner.
Now you might question where do we find the money? With ads, we added a pool of 2000 $usd, and if there is no winner, we add every day 60% of ads earning to the jackpot prize.
Additionally, we can add money to the prize by individual contributors who want to promote their product or company in our front page of the lottery.
What do you guys think. Is this something you would spend 5 minutes daily and wish for the prize win?
If anyone is interested look for.
gamesandrewards dot com
A helpline for people who have been involved in speed reading accidents.
Have you, or anyone else you know, been reading too fast and hit a folded page corner or bookmark, and flew across the room? This helpline aims to give you a safe place to voice your anguish.
Picture this: You're at work, and you open an app called EarnTick. You input your hourly wage or monthly salary, hit the START button, and watch as your earnings literally tick up in real-time.
$0.0047... $0.0094... $0.0141...
It could be either motivating or depressing (depending on your wage), but imagine:
It's like those national debt counters, but personal and (hopefully) going up instead of down. Would this make work more bearable or just make time feel even slower? 🤔
This should apply to Bluetooth headphones or headphones inserted through any port that may still be available.
The device should only go up to a moderate volume with the volume on max by default. If you want to go louder, you should have to go under "general > accessibility > hearing > increase maximum volume"
Why? Nudge theory.
First of all, the extra effort alone might be just enough to get someone to turn it down so they can hear better in old age.
Second, placing it under "accessibility" might make people think. While there's nothing wrong with non-disabled people using accessibility features, especially since such uses can often improve life for everyone (in the way that curb cuts or accessible elevators do), such a placement specifically for a loud volume might actually make people think... is this for me? Maybe this is for people who really need it, who wouldn't be able to hear anything clearly otherwise. Here I am putting myself at risk of actually needing it for a little extra sensory pleasure, but this won't actually help me to hear what people are saying, or hear the finer details in the music!
After a Reddit comment is one year old, if the poster of the comment is deemed to have been being serious when they wrote it, and it transpires that the comment contained a large amount of hyperbole, then they should have to pay a tax on that comment.
So I believe it’s a pretty crazy yet achievable idea. I want to create a worldwide study on sexual life with millions of participants. The goal is to share data-based information about sexual health and behaviors across different countries and cultures
Basically, it will be a dashboard of sexual life, so anyone interested can explore and learn more about sexual preferences, attractive body parts, sexual orientation, and other info within their country or worldwide
My friend and I just finished the website this week. Check it out here https://worldsexmap.com
Not in place of the detox meds but in addition to bc marijuana helps with cravings, depression, PTSD, reflection, and so on. Still incorporate psychotherapy, but have it administered medicinally.
Get a whole bunch of volunteers / retirees / low cost workers and start a non profit. Set up multiple locations across a large city outskirts, send out a daily home cooked bulk recipe and order in all the produce direct from supplier - sell them at 0 profit to the millions of low income households struggling - maybe get a subsidy to help offset food delivery partner costs? Or bring it in house again like pizza delivery with teens who need a job?
So I’ve been playing around with a crazy idea: imagine reading a mystery thriller where, at some point, the clues jump off the page and into the real world. Suddenly, you're piecing together a puzzle using things like Reddit threads, weird YouTube videos, or even cryptic emails sent to you. The book gives you hints, but you actually have to go and find the clues in the real world to figure out what happens next.
I’m currently writing a book like this—it’s set in a small seaside town where the main character, Violet, starts uncovering some dark family secrets. But here’s the twist: the clues she finds? You can find them too, hidden across the internet and other real-world places.
I’m curious—would you be into something like that? What kind of real-world clues would get you totally hooked while reading?
Any long shirts or dresses would need their crotches cut out.
The game tracks your totally not real debt amount and your totally not real income and for the better you save and debt you pay the more happy you make your friend. If people can take the game seriously then the only way you make pikachu happy is by being financially stable in the real world
Kinda like a wiki for all words that exist.
The quality of a sub largely depends on the quality of moderation, but mostly this is invisible to the user.
If you could look at which users, posts and comments get removed, and under what reasoning, it would be easier to detect possible bias and decide whether a sub is worth your attention or not.
From the user's perspective, this lock works slightly differently from a normal one.
To lock or unlock it, insert the correct key, then swiftly move an adjacent lever from the "locked" label to the "unblocked" label or vice versa.
The lock will lock or unlock without the key rotating.
The inner cylinder of the lock (aka the plug) is firmly attached to the lock housing, and the outer cylinder rotates around it to (dis) engage the latch.
There are two rotary dampers; The primary damper is rotated by the "lock"/"unlock" lever and rotates the outer cylinder. The secondary damper connects this lever to the housing.
The amount of tension applied to the outer cylinder is proportional to how fast the user moves the lever, and this lever has a limited range of motion - single pin picking would have to be inhumanly quick - unless the damper were frozen.
The secondary damper protects from a thief freezing the lock by becoming more viscous more quickly than the primary when cooled, essentially freezing the lever.
To prevent a thief from cooking off the liquid in the secondary damper, it has a higher boiling point than the primary's.
To reduce exposure, the housing had a slot for the key which doesn't expose the front of the plug, and the opening for the lever fits very closely around it.
The actual cylinder and plug could be any decent lock type (pin tumbler, disk detainer, etc), as long as it takes a few minutes to pick on it's own.