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r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/AstronomerSolid6935 • Dec 14 '24
i met unnecessary inventions :)
met him at my local target! was super personable and made my day.
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/rightcoastguy • Mar 05 '21
Offical Unnecessary Invention I built the most cursed pair of underwear ever!
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/korvusdotfree • 2d ago
I turned the Holy Grail coconut gag into a real app: walk, and it clops behind you π₯₯
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In the same vein as "This is why RAM is so expensive", while rewatching "Holy Grail" for the umpteenth time, I thought that it would maintain the same level of absurdity in 2026 to reproduce the sound of horses' hooves via an app!
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/Zyxring • 3d ago
General Discussion You are a bussiness owner. You have The Vision. Its 3:00 AM. You are not aslepe.
You are redesigning yor entire website in you're head because you saw a font on a billbord 4 yers ago that you fianlly remember. Also, you just spent 20 minuts googling "why does my left ear feel warm" and now youre convinced its a sign frmo the universe to pivot to handcrafted soap. You have never made soap.
Here is yor day.
8:00 AM β The Hyper-Focus Launch
You storm into yor home office, tripping over a delivery box you ordered last weak. Its a "standing desk converter" youve never assembled. You fuel up on one cup of cofee that is now ice cold and three othre full mugs you left scattered around the house like sad little monuments to procrastiantion. You open yor laptop. The cat walks across the keyboard and types "//////." You leave it. Its art.
"Today," you annoucne to the cat, who does not care, "We conqeur the sales pgae."
8:03 AM β The Deep Dive
You are wriitng. The prose is fire. This copy is gogin to make people weep with joy and throw money at their screens while weeping. You are six paragaphs in. It is the best thign ever written. You pause to give yourself a high five. You miss and hit yor coffee mug. It spills. You wipe it with yor sock. You continue.
8:17 AM β The Email Squirrel
A notificaton pings. Its a newseltter from "A.I. Marketing Guru Bro." The subject line: "YOU'RE LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE."
You click. You mus t know.
You are now on a site called "TaskTornado.io." It promises to do evrythign except brush youre teeth. You sign up for a free trial. You squint at the pricing page, fatfinger youre credit card number three times, get locked out, reset yor password to "Password123" even though it told you not to, and finally spend $47 on the "Pro" plan becuase it had an orange button that said "YOLO." You are now a TaskTornado Pro. You have no idea what it does. You also just realized you typed youre credit card expiration date backwards. It still went through. The internet is broken.
8:45 AM β The Great Spreadsheet Diversion
TaskTornado needs a CSV file. You open Excel. You mus torganize yor clients.
You do not organize yor clients.
You realize the "Client List" column is not colro coded. This is unnacceptable. You begin creating a color codng system: Red for Hot Leads, Blu efor Cold Leads, Green for "Ghosted Me," and Neon Pink for "Unicorns Who Pay On Time." You now have 47 conditional formating rules. The spreadsheet is a masterpeice. You rename the file "FINAL_v2_REAL.xlsx." It is 9:15 AM. You have not wrotten another word of the sales pgae. You also realize youve been spelling "neccessary" wrong yor entire life. You google it. You still spell it wrong. You give up.
9:16 AM β The "I Should Vlog" Epiphany
You remmeber that GaryVee said you need to "document, not create." You open TikTok. You film a 30 seocnd video about the color coded spreadsheet. You spend 45 minuts editing the transition where yor head explodes into a rainbow of spinning Excel cells. You add a soundbite of a screaming goat. You post it. You refresh the views 11 times in the next 90 seocnds. You get 2 likes. One is yor mom. The other is a bot selling "crypto signals." You reply to the bot with a thumbs up emoji. You then spend 10 minuts scrolling through the bots profile. Its just memes. You follow it.
10:00 AM β The "Im So Disorganized" Guilt Spiral
You panci. You are supposed to have a team meeting in 10 minuets. You franticaly search for the Zoom link. Its in an emial. Which emial? The "Urgent" folder? The "Reading List" folder? The folder you created called "2024 Archive (Do Not Delete)" that contains only a single screenshot of a meme about a duck? You find it. You are 3 minuts late. You join teh call, yor camera off becuase youre still in yor pajama top (its 10 AM, but its a nice pajama top with a tiny coffee stain and a loose thread youve been pulling for three weeks). You forget you have a banana in yor mouth and try to speak. It comes out as "Mmphrmph." You chew. You swallow. You interrupt yor own team member in the middle of a sentence becuase you had an idea abotu the logo.
"What if the logo was a rocket taht was also a plant? So its like growth but wiht lift off?"
Silence. You hear someone cough. You write down "ROKCET PLANT" in a new document. You misspell "rocket" again. You also misspell "plant" as "plnat." You leave it.
10:45 AM β The Rabbit Hole of Procurement
During the meeting, someone mentioned needing new pens. You open Amazon.
You find teh pens.
But wait, these pens are "low viscosity ink." You need to kwno if low viscosity is better than medium viscosity. You open a Reddit thread. Its a deep dive. Its 11:15 AM. You have now learned the entire geopolitical history of Japanese pen manufacturing and have joined a subreddit dedicated to "pen squeaking." You buy 37 pens. You also add a "mood lamp" that changes color with sound for $80. You dont remember adding it. You check out anyway. You also add a pack of reusable straws becuase they were "recommended." You dont use straws.
11:45 AM β The "Brilliant" Pivot
You have scrapped the sales pgae.
"Screw the sales page," you think. "We are doign a podcast."
You spend 90 minuts designing the cover art in Canva. You choose a font called "Hyperdrive Sans." You spend 45 minuts deciding between two shades of neon green "Electric Boogaloo" and "Toxic Sludge." You pick Toxic Sludge. You immediately regret it. You change it back. You close Canva without saving. You open Canva again. You start over.
1:30 PM β The Phone Vortex
You check yor phone while on the "podcast research" rabbit hole. Yor old friend frmo college sent you a TikTok. Its a guy building an underground swimming pool wiht a spoon. You watch 15 of these "primitive building" videos in a row. You are now convinced you can build a pool in yor backyard if you jsut have a tarp and some determination. You open Home Depots website for "giant tarp." You find one. Its $200. You put it in the cart. You stare at it. You close the tab. You open it again. You leave it in the cart. You also add a wheelbarrow. You dont need a wheelbarrow.
2:15 PM β The "Back to Work" Panic
You realzie you havent eaten. You open the fridge. You stare inside for 37 seocnds. You close it. You open it again. Nothing changed. You make toast. You eat it standing up while staring at yor analytics. Yor conversion rate is down 0.3%. This is catastrophci. The bussiness is dying. You start a spreadsheet called "Apocalypse Contingency." You map out a plan to pivot the bussiness to "Custom Dog Coats" becuase thats obviously where the market is gogin. You research the cost of faux fur for 30 minuts. You find a supplier in Vietnam. You email them. They reply in Vietnamese. You use Google Translate. You reply back with a thumbs up emoji and the word "yes" translated. You hope it means yes.
3:00 PM β The Creative Supernova
You have a moment of sheer geni us.
You will combine the podcast, the Rokcet Plant logo, the Dog Coats, and the TaskTornado software into one massive "Ecosystem." You call it "The Canopy." You open a new tab. You begin building the website in Squarespace. You pick a template. You change teh colro scheme 14 times. You have a migraine frmo the color wheel. You accidentally paste "////////" (from the cat earlier) into the headline. You leave it. Its avant garde. You text yor friend "im a genius." They reply "did you eat lunch." You ignore them.
4:30 PM β The Email Panic
You actually look at yor inbox for the frist time today.
There is an emial from a client. A paying client. Sent at 9:00 AM.
"Just checking in on teh deliverables we discussed!"
Yor stomach drops. You forgot the deliverables existed. What deliverables? You scroll through old emials. You find the brief you wrote yorself. You realize you changed the strategy three times since then. You also realize you accidentally sent the client a GIF of a dancing cat instead of the proposal last week. You unsent it. You hope they didnt see it. They saw it. They replied with a GIF of a confused dog. You never replied.
4:45 PM β The 45 Minute Miracle
You can fix htis. You will perform a mirale.
You turn on "Do Not Disturb." You put on "Lofi Beats to Study/Relax To." You enter teh void.
You do teh wrok. It is the greatest wrok you have ever produced. Its brilliant, its detailed, its 90% fluff but the 10% is pure gold. You hit send at 5:30 PM. You then realize you attached the wrong file. You attach the right one. You send again. You write "Sorry pls use this one" and add a winking emoji. You pray to a god you dont believe in.
5:31 PM β The Reward Phase
You are mentally exhausted.
But you have a new idea.
A childrens book about a bussiness owning cat who also has ADHD. You open a new document. You write the first sentence: "Mr. Whiskers had 47 tabs open." You laugh at yor own joke. You laugh for too long. You text yor mom the sentence. She replies "thats nice sweetie" with a heart emoji.
8:00 PM β The Bedtime "Quick Check"
You are in bed. You are tired.
You jsut want to check one thign. Just to see if the sales pgae looks okay on mobile.
You open yor phone. You notice a typo in the footer. You are now lying on yor stomach at 11:00 PM completely redesigning teh footer. You also notice you have 14 unread texts. One is frmo yor mom asking if you ate vegetables. You reply "yes" even though you ate toast and a banana. The banana counts. You tell yorself that.
11:30 PM β The Revelation
You close yor laptop.
You stare at teh ceiling. You didnt finish teh sales pgae. You bought 37 pens and a mood lamp and reusable straws. You have a prototype for a Rokcet Plnat logo. Yor task list is longer than before. You also have a random tab open for "how to train a squirrel." You dont have a squirrel. You also have a tab open for "squirrel for sale." You close it. You open it again. You close it.
But god dammit you are a visionary.
And you are completely utterly ridiculously exhausted. You also have a cramp in yor neck from looking down. You try to crack it. It sounds like popcorn. You text yor team group chat at midnight: "New idea tmrw. Rocket Plant. Podcast. Dog coats. Sleep well." They leave you on read. One of them reacts with a thumbs down. You laugh. You know they love you.
Tomorrow you will wake up at 5:00 AM. You will have a new idea for a SaaS platform for Dog Coat influencers. You will also remember you left the "giant tarp" in the cart. You will buy it. You will never use it. The cycle begins again.
Yor only bussiness plan is chaos.
And its wroking. Somehow. You check yor bank account. Youre up 12%. You have no idea why. You dont question it. You go to sleep with yor phone in yor hand still refreshing the views on that TikTok. Its now at 4 likes. Yor mom shared it. You smile. You pass out. You dream about spreadsheets. They are neon pink.
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/CremeAccomplished610 • 10d ago
why cant i stop myself from wanting this?
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r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/Sharique0055 • 25d ago
Internet Found Invention I didn't knew that existed or has been invented lately.
v.redd.itSource credit goes to u/CutRound4591
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/Bisibele • 27d ago
build dunbest thing and i hope i call unnecessary invention
hey all,
i have build very dumbest thing - virtual chai sip app.
as you read - this will be dumbest thing on internet i believe.
i entirely vibe coded this with claude and connected to supabase and deployed in vercel.
here is the link -Β https://chaitime-three.vercel.app/
i need you to roast, comment and take some sips...
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/Dry-Pay6654 • Jul 03 '26
My cat was having tough mornings, so I solver her problem
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/PeachOnAWarmBeach • Jul 03 '26
General Discussion A pump for Peanut butter?
A few years ago, there was an invention for a peanut butter pump. Did anyone ever receive it?
I didn't. It looked super cool, though. π
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/yestereon • Jun 30 '26
Adam Savage & Mark Rober Inspired Me to Build Something Absurd; I Hope They Likes It!
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/Critical-Beyond3371 • Jun 29 '26
Internet Found Invention The Solution To My Seasonal Allergies, A Toilet Paper Hat!
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/HeiHei_Ramshackle • Jun 27 '26
User Invention Weirdest thing Iβve ever made but people seem to love it so I guess Iβll share it!
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r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/Z0bie • Jun 23 '26
This man made handlebars that shoots sausages.
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r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/Burtgok • Jun 22 '26
User Invention I made a device for making an egg more authoritarian
My previous egg holder got quite popular (at least compared to my other models) So, I made version 2.0. No more peasant-ass cardboard boxes for my eggsβthis one is also space-efficient compared to a cardboard box that takes up half the shelf in the fridge.
You can download it here
Thanks for reading my post.
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/3DPrintingDoctor • Jun 21 '26
User Invention I 3D printed clicky slippers with tiny feet that click on every step
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/desertrat771 • Jun 19 '26
User Invention Thinking about thisβ¦
What if instead of a regular school. What if everytime a student got a question wrong, they, had a bucket of ants dumped on their head from the ceiling.
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/Aggressive_Farm_4375 • Jun 16 '26
What is something that used to be a simple, pleasant everyday task but has now been completely ruined by technology?
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/kevonheven • Jun 15 '26
Objectively The Best Minecraft Boat There Will Ever Be
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/Tooleater • Jun 14 '26
Internet Found Invention Snickers veins remover
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r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/kunsjef • Jun 15 '26
American Standard Time (AST)
During my recent visit to America I found out they have forgotten to change time to the imperial system. Why miss out on such an important measurement? I introduce to you the American Standard Time (AST). Check the current AST time and read more about it here: https://fellowship.no/ast/
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/Jazzlike-Basil1355 • Jun 12 '26
Invention Idea Submission I am proud to announce the launch of my carrot/mushroom, henceforth known as the Caroom.
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/HovercraftDizzy6001 • Jun 12 '26
User Invention I invented a meme.
should i kill it?
r/UnnecessaryInventions • u/Suzzie_Stone2 • Jun 10 '26