Idea 45 of 500. Cluster 2: Sell the making, not the object
Toddy tapping at dawn, watched from the ground, with breakfast after
The mechanism, from the book
The craft cannot be copied and the object can. In Europe people queue to watch glass being blown and then buy the glass.
Every idea in cluster 2 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Walk to a coconut grove at dawn and ask a toddy tapper whether visitors could watch from the ground and share a breakfast afterwards. Agree a fee for the tapper and for the family who cook. Take two guests from a nearby guesthouse as a paid trial. Their verdict, and the tapper's willingness to repeat it, are the proof.
- Who pays first
- Early risers staying near the coast who want to see a skill they cannot see at home, followed by a real breakfast.
- What leaves today
- The tapper's climb earns only the price of the toddy; watching it at dawn sells the skill and the morning as well.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. FiveThe Most Photographed Rock in the World
Courses instead of meals, the one the book would build first
More from cluster 2
Idea 45 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.