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Shitty Million Dollar Ideas

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This is a place to pitch goofy million dollar ideas that you had in the shower, as you were falling asleep, or during a fever dream. Think of it is as shitty Shark Tank.

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The "I'm not dead" button: An alarm clock that automatically calls emergency services if it's not stopped within a certain number of hours. (lemmy.world)
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This isn't really meant to save anyone's life. But it would let someone know to come pick up your corpse before it melts into the carpet and your cat starves.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You can request mail carriers to do this in a lot of places. Usually a service for elderly people who are living alone. If the mail carrier notices the mail isn't getting taken out of the box they will have a process to alert someone to check in.

It is a public service provided at no (low?) cost which merely formalizes an act of basic human decency. It is not gonna make anybody rich.