Inmate Cash Management

Inmate Banking Software
http://www.stellar-services.net/lockdowntour.html

Residential High End Ice Maker

Would have been great to have been selling these into the McMansion building boom. At $2700, there is room for competition.

Manage Currency Risk

Software to help manage currency risks.  Implement as add-ons to SaaS accounting systems and hook in to big-name standalone systems such as SAP and Oracle.

WSJ article:

 ... software from FiREapps, which costs Itron about $100,000 a year, pulls data about the company's currency risks around the world from Itron's accounting systems. Software from Reval, at another $100,000 a year, uses that data to help Mr. Barrie's team decide on the right hedging trades to make, and the trades are executed using the FXAll trading system from FX Alliance Inc., which costs Itron $20,000 a year.

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Treasurers say they look at the software's cost as an insurance premium against the possibility of currency losses. The typical cost is "high five figures to low six figures" annually, says Amol Dhargalkar of Chatham Financial, which helps companies hedge currencies.

The software generally replaces a painstaking system that involves finance-department staffers emailing a plethora of Excel spreadsheets around ... data from the spreadsheets frequently is stale.

QR Code Registry

Allow generation and redirect for personal/business QR codes.  Provide campaign management and analytics.

Low end will be personal static for people to put on business card or bumper sticker.
Medium-large will be marketing campaigns - billboards, fliers, satisfaction surverys on receipts.

Price will be a brutal race to the bottom.  For always-on reliability will need hosting on stable cloud provider.  World wide market.


http://delivr.com/qr-code-generator

https://www.qrdatacenter.com/html/how-it-works.html
$49.95 a month

http://www.qrstuff.com/faqs.html#subscriptions
Advanced feature set of the website is available to all subscribers using a time-based subscription model:
24 hour - $3.95
1 month - $11.95
3 months - $27.95 (save 20% compared with 1 month subscription)
6 months - $49.95 (save 30% compared with 1 month subscription)
12 months - $85.95 (save 40% compared with 1 month subscription)

Delinquent Account Collections

Many service providers have delinquent account collections groups which look at account balance, phone/email/text/mail customer to work out the past due payments.

Standalone systems can take a feed from the billing system, provide predictive dialing for call center, and update customer records when/if they pay.  Can be integrated for near realtime.

A hosted system could provide the functionality cheaper (monthly rate, flat rate per customer, revenue sharing) than decades-old systems such as:
CACS Enterprise collections system helps you reduce operating expenses, delinquencies, and write off's while building profitable customer relationships, and improve all aspects of your end-to-end collections and recovery operations.

Supporting high-volume processing for all consumer products and providing scalability for growth, CGI's solution pioneered the use of automated collections, and behavior-scoring treatments, as well as the credit industry's evolution from account to customer and age-based to risk-based collections.

CareZone (secure family website)

Over-priced.



Private, paid place on the Web where people can manage information they need to help care for aging parents, sick children or other loved ones.

$180 value. Care for up to three loved ones.

Aggregate Fuel Demand

At level of fuel shippers, this company aggregates demand to negotiate better prices from oil producers.

What it does is aggregate fragmented fuel demand from land, air and sea shippers to give them added buying power at oil companies. It also provides trade-credit fuel hedging and other services. It makes a small spread on each transaction, so it has no commodity-price risk.


World Fuel Services Corporation, a fuel logistics company, engages in the marketing, distribution, and sale of aviation, marine, and land fuel products and related services worldwide.
...  fuel and related services to commercial ...
... fuel management, price risk management, arranging ground handling ...
... provides a private label charge card to customers in the general aviation industry.
... management services for the procurement of fuel, and claims management.
... management services for the procurement of fuel and price risk management.

Hair Salon Barbicide

Manufacture and sell this formula and other cleaning products.

Host Free Software: School Admin

Open Admin for Schools

Open Administration for Schools (OAfS) is a Web-based school administration package.

Medical Device - Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

I was fitted with a negative pressure wound therapy device. It was a simple device consisting of a vacuum pump, a fluid reservoir and a tube running to my knee, and included some basic electronic controls. I carried it home and used it for two months.

I was appalled that the device was not available to purchase but had to be rented for about $4,500 per month. Dressings and reservoirs were replaced every few days at extra cost, of course.

I can visualize this simple device being sold at Wal-Mart for probably $39.95.