# What's the dumbest/worst "Next Million Dollar Idea" someone has shared with you?

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**Created:** [November 1, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-worst-next-million-dollar-idea-someone-has-shared-with-you/992447 "2023-11-01T23:19:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-worst-next-million-dollar-idea-someone-has-shared-with-you/992447/48 "2023-11-02T17:03:39Z")

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I had a thread about my friend that wanted to put a chess-like game on the internet and charge people £1 to compete in tournaments.  
I called the thread [Killing friends’ dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-friends-dreams/973480)

Obviously games do make money, so it is not intrinsically bad in that sense. However the design of his game was awful, and he had no understanding of why pay-to-play won’t get off the ground. Plus he was not a coder, so unsurprisingly, it’s been a money pit for him.

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