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Slightly Toasted #2: Keep It Crusty
Freshly baked, Crusty Business Ideas with a side of Jam
Welcome to Slightly Toasted, where we dish out daily business ideas, weird ventures, quick hacks, and success stories—minus the corporate BS.
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Today’s Menu:
The Main Dish 🍽️: Sky Scrub: Lets clean some windows
Strange Brew 🫙: Chef in a Park
Hustle Hack 💹: Your “digital” sticky note companion
The Big Score 💰️: Exploding Kittens!
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Ok…Lets get cooking.
The Main Dish | Business Ideas
Sky Scrub Window Cleaning 🪟
(Window cleaning with both feet firmly planted on the ground.)
🔦 The Pitch: Ever feel queasy watching someone dangle three stories high just to clean your windows? SkyScrub replaces nerve-wracking scaffolds and shaky ladders with drones armed to blast away grime. It’s faster, safer, and oh-so-satisfying to watch a swarm of mini-robots scrub your windows till they sparkle—no harness required.
What’s Cooking? (The Opportunity) 🍪
Picture this: Dirty windows are a universal eyesore, especially on multi-story homes, condos, and small commercial buildings. Traditional methods can be costly and risky for workers. Drone-assisted window washing cuts down on labor time, eliminates life-on-the-line climbing gear, and offers a high-tech spin that impresses clients. Picture a future where building owners say, “Forget the ladder—send in the drones!”
Recipe (The Solution) 🧾
High-Tech Drones
Outfitted with soft-bristle rotating brushes, foam dispensers, or water jets.
Controlled from the ground with a live camera feed—easy, safe, and efficient.
Go-to-Market
Partnerships: Collaborate with local property management firms, real estate agencies, and small commercial building owners.
Tech-Driven Branding: Emphasize the “cutting-edge” angle to stand out in a crowded window-washing market.
Pilot Markets: Start with suburban neighborhoods that have lots of two- or three-story homes, then expand to small office buildings.
Startup Costs
Initial Drone Investment: Specialized cleaning drones can range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars apiece.
Insurance & Licensing: Factor in commercial drone operator permits, liability coverage, and possibly FAA compliance.
Cleaning Supplies: Eco-friendly soaps or solutions, plus extra brushes and attachments.
Check, Please (Monetizing) 💲
Tiered Packages:
Basic: Quick foam wash and rinse for residential clients.
Premium: Full exterior treatment (windows, gutters, maybe siding if you upgrade your drones).
Commercial: Regularly scheduled cleans for office complexes or retail centers.
Add-On Services:
Solar Panel Cleaning: If they’re already flying up there, might as well rinse those panels, too.
Roof Inspections: A quick drone flyover to spot damage or leaks (an easy upsell).
Membership: Seasonal cleaning plans for homeowners who want spotless glass year-round.
Extra Income Streams:
Drone Rental or Licensing to other cleaning services, if you scale and create a proprietary system.
Training Seminars for aspiring drone washers.
Domain Name Ideas 🖥️
Strange Brew | Lets Get Wierd
The Picnic Chef
Picture this: You’re sprawled out in the park with your buddies, soaking in the sun, and suddenly it hits you—you’re starving. You don’t want to pack up, lose your prime spot, or settle for vending-machine snacks. Instead, you summon a roving culinary pro right to your picnic blanket. This “Picnic Chef on Demand” arrives with a portable kitchen station (think collapsible table, induction cooktop, fresh ingredients) and whips up a gourmet meal before your eyes. Whether it’s pasta marinara, sizzling burgers, or vegan poke bowls, you watch the chef do their magic, learn a few cooking tricks, and voilà: restaurant-quality food without abandoning the fresh air.
It’s Uber meets MasterChef, but in the great outdoors. The app-based platform connects hungry park-goers to available chefs in real time. Pick your chef, their specialty, and your serving size, pay through the app, and wait a few minutes until the sweet aroma of on-site cooking lures your friends from their phone scrolls. The chef cleans up afterward so you can get back to your frisbee throwdown, all while leaving the park spick-and-span.
Why It Could Work
Experience Economy: People love novel dining adventures—“Picnic Chef on Demand” is an Instagrammable, story-worthy experience that goes way beyond Uber Eats.
Park Perfection: Parks are a built-in dining venue, and picnicking is already a hit. Adding a pop-up gourmet factor only boosts that appeal.
Scalable & Flexible: Start with a few chefs in one city’s busiest parks, then expand. Chefs pick their schedules, users pick their menus—everyone wins.
Community & Local Flavor: Partner with local farmers or food artisans for fresh, seasonal ingredients. Customers can feel good about supporting local businesses while devouring top-notch meals.
Tech + Food: Sharing-economy models thrive on convenience. An app-based approach (complete with live chef availability and ratings) means minimal overhead and maximum user satisfaction.
Sure, you’ll jump through a few hoops…permits, cooking-safety rules, disclaimers about open flames, but hey, if we can figure out how to deliver tacos by drone, we can figure out how to grill a burger in the park. Now pass me a paper plate and let’s eat!
Hustle Hack
Trello: Your (Digital) Sticky Note Wall
Being an entrepreneur often means juggling tasks, deadlines, and that brilliant idea you scribbled on a napkin last night. Trello lets you organize all those to-dos into simple, drag-and-drop boards—like a sticky-note wall without the sticky mess. Create columns for “Ideas,” “In Progress,” and “Done,” invite team members if you’re not flying solo, and tag tasks with deadlines to keep everything from slipping through the cracks. It’s painless, visual, and oddly satisfying to move a card over to “Done” at the end of the day. Think of Trello as your virtual command center for those million-and-one tasks an entrepreneur tackles daily.
The Big Score
Check out this great Podcast with the creators of Exploding Kittens, Elan Lee and Matthew Inman, on how they turned a Kickstarter for a card game into a multi-million dollar business! you can also check out the transcript at the same link for those who prefer the written word.
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