What are /r/Inventit's favorite Products & Services?

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Please go and buy yourself the book "Running Lean" by Ash Maurya.

If you want to know how to find out if your product is going to sell, then this book will tell you how to do it. The chapters on customer interviews alone could save you months and tens of thousands of dollars of mistakes.

Life is too short to make a product that no one wants. This book will save you many, many mistakes.

Sounds fun. There’s obviously a huge market for the next cool squirt gun, I think super soaker has had it on lock down for a pretty long time but I feel like I don’t see nearly as many as I used to.

Something like this?
https://m.rosegal.com/m-goods_img-goods_id-6520121.html

Also, good interview with the investor here.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-The-Art-of-Excellenc-28119129/episode/lonnie-johnson-serial-inventor-from-super-28646523/?cmp=web_share

There are a lot of books out there: Zero to One, The 4-Hour Work Week, etc that all have good advice in them, but ultimately they are self help books.

You don't need them. All the info is or something that you already know or can figure out. You'll end up wasting a bunch of time reading when you should have been doing.

If you really want books to read go to r/entrepreneur and search through the sub. Every couple months someone asks for a list of books and you'll see a bunch of the same ones in the responses.

Check out the free Podcast "Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders". It's by Tina Seelig at Stanford and anything you need to know is in there.

Good luck!

Yes, I'm just toying with the same idea, not cakes, but inventing. So I'm looking around on reddit for some advice as well. I just ordered a book off Amazon called The Independent Inventors Handbook: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761149473?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

I know next to nothing about all this, but figured some basics might help. If anyone else knows of a good book to take the steps from Idea to the finished product please post.

I've also seen the recent book by Shark Tank's Lori Greiner, Invent It, Sell It: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804176434/ref=s9_simh_gw_g14_i3_r?ie=UTF8&fpl=fresh&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-5&pf_rd_r=0232EJ9AQ1M9PK3R5JA1&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2437869542&pf_rd_i=desktop

Maybe that will help you as well.