Has anyone heard of any business ideas/innovations as a response to or a result of COVID-19?

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Yeah a lot of businesses are laying off their employees which is innovative.

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It appears that every man and his dog has started their own freelancer recruitment platform

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I was thinking something called voting?? Is anyone familiar w this concept?

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Most inspiring innovation I've seen has been Tock to Go by Nick Kokonas and team. Give it a quick Google. He took an online reservation / ticketing system usually used to manage reservations for high-end restaurants and enabled any restaurant to take online orders or pickup and delivery for just a 3% fee, whereas GrubHub and Uber Eats take a 30% fee. Learning about Tock helped me better understand the economics of restaurants, and I'm hopeful that Tock to Go will continue on after this crisis is over to help restaurants keep more of their hard-earned revenue in-house.

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Tons of companies are shifting their facilities to make hand sanitizer and PPE

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The only completely new thing I’ve seen are these touch pokies. For marketing I’ve seen an ad from the Las Vegas tourism board for Zoom backgrounds that are Vegas inspired.

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I’m getting a bunch of ads for this brass hook that sits with your keys. Made for opening doors and pushing public buttons. I predict this will become the norm

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Me too

^ IMO most of these aren’t innovations, they’re pivots (worthy pivots). But not net new innovations.

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I was thinking of true innovation as something that hasn’t been thought of before. I do have an example but I can’t share it (yet). But there are things out there.

Ha

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Retrofitting all our open concept modern offices to a more virus-proof version is a goldmine

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No in p jk

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Yep.

Clocked In - new app for gig economy restaurant workers. https://clockedin.com/

http://give-19.com

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