Slightly Toasted #23: Life is sweet

Learn and earn

April 14, 2025

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Today’s Menu:

  1. The Main Dish 🍽️: Lets get nuts…Do-nuts

  2. Strange Brew 🫙: Chores, Chores for Everyone

  3. Hustle Hack 💹: Diagram Your Ideas

  4. The Big Score 💰️: Alright Alright

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Ok…Lets get cooking.

The Main Dish | Business Ideas

“Dawn”nuts 🍩 

Morning-made, kitchen-borrowed, happiness-delivered

🔦 The Pitch: You produce and deliver fresh, gourmet-style donuts during early hours by temporarily using the kitchens of existing restaurants before they open. It’s a low-overhead, high-margin morning hustle that leverages unused infrastructure for quick delivery or pickup.

What’s Cooking? (The Opportunity) 🍪 

  • Ghost Kitchen Twist: Partner with restaurants that don’t operate until lunch or dinner—think burger joints, pizzerias, or bars.

  • Morning-Only Brand: You create a brand around morning indulgence—limited-time menus, seasonal drops, Instagrammable designs.

  • Delivery-Focused: Operate via Uber Eats, DoorDash, and your own website with pre-orders and local delivery.

  • Pop-Up Friendly: Once validated, you can do pop-up booths at coffee shops, farmers markets, or retail stores.

Recipe (The Solution) 🧾 

Initial Setup

  • Build relationships with 2–3 local restaurants to rent their kitchens between ~4AM–10AM.

  • Work out liability insurance and kitchen use agreements (flat rate or revenue share).

  • Get proper health permits (varies by city/state—look into "shared commercial kitchen" requirements).

Menu Strategy

  • 5–7 signature donuts (e.g., Maple Bacon, Strawberry Shortstack, Churro Crunch).

  • 1-2 rotating specials for novelty and urgency.

  • Vegan/gluten-free option for wider reach.

Operations

  • Use a cloud-based POS + delivery integration.

  • Accept pre-orders via Instagram, website, or text alerts.

  • Hire 1–2 early-morning prep cooks and a delivery runner (or use gig apps).

Check, Please (Monetizing) 💲 

  • Donuts ($3–$5 each, $16+ per box).

  • Pre-order only “Party Packs” (birthday, office treats).

  • Delivery fee or markup on third-party platforms.

  • Holiday drops (e.g., Valentine’s “Sweethearts Dozen”).

  • Subscription box for weekly/bi-weekly deliveries.

Domain Name Ideas 🖥️ 

Strange Brew | Lets Get Wierd

Tiny Taskmasters

Where chores meet chaos (the good kind).

Tiny Taskmasters is a chore-based game system for kids that turns everyday tasks into epic, laugh-out-loud missions. Delivered as a physical card deck, mobile app, or smart toy integration, it features wacky characters like Commander Dust Bunny, Princess Pick-It-Up, and Sir Stinksalot, who issue absurd, exaggerated “missions” like:

  • “Agent! The rogue socks have escaped the laundry basket. Capture them before sunset!”

  • “Knight! Slay the dragon of dish doom with your mighty sponge sword!”

Kids earn digital badges, funny sound effects, or physical stickers for every task completed—adding excitement, humor, and structure to daily responsibilities.

The game evolves weekly with new challenges, bonus quests (like “vacuum karaoke”), and parent dashboards to customize difficulty or reward systems.

Why It Could Work

  • Kids love role-play and humor: This builds on imaginative play, giving chores a narrative and comedic spin.

  • Parents are desperate for chore compliance tools: It’s more fun than a nagging voice or a bland checklist.

  • Gamification works: Earning silly badges or hearing a robot voice cheer you on makes the mundane magical.

  • Low startup needs: Begin with printed card decks or a simple app—then expand into branded toys, merch, or even a YouTube series.

  • Viral potential: Parents sharing videos of their kids battling “the laundry beast” = pure social media gold.

Hustle Hack

Miro: Create something visual that tells your story

Miro is a powerful visual collaboration tool that helps entrepreneurs map out business ideas, workflows, and strategies on a dynamic digital whiteboard. Whether you're planning your startup roadmap, organizing team sprints, or running brainstorming sessions solo or with remote collaborators, Miro’s drag-and-drop simplicity makes complex planning feel intuitive and engaging. It’s like a giant sticky-note wall in your pocket—perfect for big thinkers who move fast.

The Big Score

Watch this great motivational speech from Matthew McConaughey. Its a great wake up call to action for anyone pathing their own path.

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