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by claudiulodro 1549 days ago
I guess it depends on if this counts as computers (technically it does IMO!), but with a million bucks to start a business I would get like an excavator and a dump truck and start a contracting company or something similar. Or a bucket truck and industrial wood-chipper and start a tree company. Something along those lines. There's tons of demand, a high barrier to entry, and it's all real-world usefulness.

The big roadblock is I don't know how to drive a dump truck, excavator, or bucket truck though. :)

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I have no affiliation with them, it's just something I want to do one day:

https://digthisvegas.com/

I did this years ago. Highly recommend. Got to operate 3 different machine for 10 minutes a piece with instruction over a headset.

And it’s not “drive in circles”, it’s “dig a 3ft hole, pile the dirt then drive backwards over it so you can see how hard it is flip the machine over”

Very cool experience.

Maybe buy the equipment and rent it out to the contractors who can't afford their own? This has always seemed like a goldmine industry to me.