Undercutters Wireless™
I hate for-pay wireless access points at coffee shops. I wouldn't mind paying a fair price - let's say *triple* their cost. $60/month for a *really* good DSL line, average of 20 wireless users per day - that's a cost of 9.8 cents per customer, or 30 cents per customer retail. Seems fair enough.
A few years ago I was watching the Tom Green Show. He did a bit called "Undercutters Pizza" where he'd follow a Dominos guy and try to undercut the deal. "$15? I'll sell you a similar pizza for $10!" This, combined with my experiments with special router firmware, gave me the idea for "Undercutters Hotspot™". We'll sell a specially equipped router at cost to anyone living near a Starbucks. They set it up in their window, maybe with a high-gain antenna to compensate for distance or walls, and sell wireless access for 50 cents apiece which we split evenly.
Apparently there's another genius out there, because Fon is actually doing this. I am kicking myself.
Update: I also claim credit for thinking up the Bananokia Phone. Dammit.
A few years ago I was watching the Tom Green Show. He did a bit called "Undercutters Pizza" where he'd follow a Dominos guy and try to undercut the deal. "$15? I'll sell you a similar pizza for $10!" This, combined with my experiments with special router firmware, gave me the idea for "Undercutters Hotspot™". We'll sell a specially equipped router at cost to anyone living near a Starbucks. They set it up in their window, maybe with a high-gain antenna to compensate for distance or walls, and sell wireless access for 50 cents apiece which we split evenly.
Apparently there's another genius out there, because Fon is actually doing this. I am kicking myself.
Update: I also claim credit for thinking up the Bananokia Phone. Dammit.