Hi, my name is Terry Smith and I'm a developer and aspiring entrepreneur.


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Startup Idea #8: (Fun) Health Calculator

Posted by Terry on 11/03/2008 at around 12:24 PM

This is kind of a fun idea I had a while back; it shows off my darker sense of humour…

There are a lot of reports out there that come out every day that say “x food is bad for you, causes cancer, etc.” and 6 months later you find out that, while bad for you, “x food [also] causes you to live up to 3 years longer on average.”.

So I propose a fun themed, user contributed list of all food reports and what they say the food does to you.  Users can vote a report up or down to validate it’s source and then when the average Joe (I really hate this name after the election season) comes along, they can input what they ate that day and then BAM: You tell them congratulations, based on what you’ve eaten you’ll have y number of cancers in x number of years, but you’ll live until this long! Enjoy!

Again, it’s a fun and quirky way to see what’s going on out there.  It could be complimented by some real daily food alerts and reports and paid for by advertising or subscriptions to the real alerts.  As usual, there are a lot of ways to monetize the user base when you have one.

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