Airbnb sounded like a horrible idea to me. Who the heck would rent out a single room? Sounded like a recipe for murder.
WeWork. Why would you pay money to work in a public space if you can just stay at home in a comfy sofa and not have to deal with all these distractions?
NoPhone Air was literally selling empty packaging as a joke yet had a net worth of $15 million as of 2021.
That one app that proceeded TikTok. The one where you lip-synced to popular songs.
Musically, I believe it was called.
Exactly
As a car enthusiast, Turo horrifies me. Like I’m supposed to just rent my car to some stranger and expect everything to be ok?
Nintendolabo. I really didn’t expect anyone to buy it to be honest. But hey, it worked.
I never understood the benefit of early Whatsapp when SMS/ MMS could literally do the same thing, especially ob an iPhone (iMessage).
WhatsApp owes its success to Indian market - not everyone has an iPhone and not all sms were free unlike USA mobile providers. Device and service provider independent messaging service.
Oh interesting info. I never thought about it this way but then again it wasn’t specifically built for that market, was it?
I don’t know if I found this dumb, weird or smart in the beginning but probably Free Water
These guys basically get sponsors to pay them to put their branding across 1000s of water bottles.
They then go to a specific area that matches their brands target audience and hand out all these bottles away for free. (Events, college etc)
Not only do the sponsors get exposure from street traffic but they actually get 100s of thousands, some times millions of views from the bottles in their viral TikTok videos