Like they sell something so specific that you wonder how they even make enough money to operate.
EDIT: Or they offer a very niche service.
Long time ago, I got to visit a bingo blotter factory. They’re kind of like markers made especially to mark bingo cards.
Lol now that is specific!
You know those plastic ball pits that they have for kids to play in at places like fast food restaurants (moreso pre-COVID)? My understanding from working in the industry is that there is a machine that can quickly clean and sterilize those plastic balls. It’s a machine made by one old man, and it’s the only practical way to clean those plastic balls. So any place across the entire planet that wants to not let those ball pits get gross has to buy one of these machines from this one guy.
(And yes, I know I’m inviting people to think I’m making this up because “ball-washing lol”… but I’m 100% serious).
Got a buddy who has a sewing table custom aftermarket business and one of the side operations is a little wire doodle making machine that cranks out commemorative plate holders…like for a display…and that got me to go ‘huh…guess someone does have to make those’… But a very specific use in a niche market indeed.
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_22oCIurbs
Mr. Mann is my favourite Little Britain sketch!
“I’m looking for a painting of a disappointed horse”
“How about this one?”
“That horse looks more perturbed than disappointed”
😀yeah so good
how about this one?
Well that one does look disappointed but not because it received bad news, but because it had high expectations in life that will remain unfulfilled.
There’s a lot of people in the world. If they offer international shipping, I’m sure whatever company you’re thinking of has a sufficient customer base.
There was this small store that sold barbecue accessories. That by itself is not so unusual, if it wasn’t for its location. It was way too far into a tiny town, meaning nobody other than the locals would ever stumble upon it. It’s potential pool of customers was like a thousand people at most.
Eventually they started selling rotisserie chicken on weekends and I became a regular.
