Festool is amazing but ... honestly for many things there's better, unless you're particularly looking for dust containment on actual job sites (their drywall sander, and the domino joiner, are unparalleled).
I imagine you’re not the only one Is there a woodworking space you could rent? Not sure if those even exist.
A) The tools are dangerous and they don't want people to cut off their fingers
B) they don't want other people to fuck up their blades because they are expensive
https://brokeassstuart.com/2017/12/12/eulogy-brainwash-cafe/
I’ve found that even seemingly dull things can get very interesting when you get deep into them.
What business excites you?
Glad that your post picked up some comments nevertheless!
I’d use the money to hire sales and marketing people.
Mostly SaaS.
If you don't need to worry about living expenses or retirement, there needs to be a good reason to spend 1/3 of your day doing things you don't enjoy (seems a slightly strange goal to be honest).
This should definitely be an "Ask HN".
I’m curious about what people are passionate about and wanted to ask the question in a different way than the usual if you won the lottery
Building houses en-masse, in factories with efficiencies of scale, has the problem that they have to fit on a truck trailer and be driven carefully down fixed-width roads and over and under bridges. Having all the labour commute to the building site every day and move all the parts there, that seems inefficient.
So make a house factory, making houses bigger and nicer than trailer homes, airlifting the houses from the factory to the site. Then the work on-site is foundation and preparation, and connecting things up. Googling the weight of a house shows "A 2,500-square-foot house with one floor weighs about 500,000 lbs. or 250 tons." which was roughly the lift capacity of the Hindenburg, and 5-10x more than a heavy lift helicopter.
Probably stupid, but fun. Something to do with $300Bn even if it's a money loser, just for how cool it would be. Better than buying Twitter.
Airships got a bad reputation because of the Hindenburg. Besides a few airships, they basically havent been touched in 75 years. Materials science has greatly improved since then.
A modern take on an airship should be super effective. The thing is... they arent as fast as an airplane but boy can they ever lift. You could move heavy goods across continents for practically no cost.
Personally I think Toyota's bonehead move to get into hydrogen cars was just a mistake. They could produce hydrogen based airships with their tech and become a giant.
Are we talking investment here, or starting a business that you run?
> Other than that, the only constraints are you need to love 2/3 of your day so 1/3 of your day is spent on things you don’t enjoy but need to get done.
Assuming the 1/3 here is work, we don't get 2/3 of a day to enjoy. Sleep is 1/3, and after adding in "life stuff" like cooking, cleaning, showering, eating, commuting, etc, you're getting less than 1/3 of a day to enjoy, and it's going to be your most tired hours of the day (assuming you're working at the beginning of your day and not the end).
There isn't a profitable endeavor that exists that I could say I would enjoy over doing something else that is less profitable (to the point of not being sustainable).
I'd probably get a larger return in a shorter time than investing in any random startup right now, with less risk.
If I have to explain why, then you probably aren't my target investor. ;-)
It would be an investment in your enjoyment, because you will almost definitely not make money unless you're also selling food or beverages.
(I don't have experience with either of those two businesses, so take it with a grain of salt.)
Let me know what you find out, I'm ready
