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Hands-free restroom door opener product

A consumer product business that designs, patents, and sells a simple device that lets people open restroom doors without using their hands, targeting facilities and offices.

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The idea, in plain language

A consumer product business that designs, patents, and sells a simple device that lets people open restroom doors without using their hands, targeting facilities and offices. Money comes from unit sales to building managers, janitorial companies, or direct consumers. The customer is a facility manager or business looking to improve restroom hygiene. Starting it involves prototyping, patenting, and setting up manufacturing or sourcing. Revenue figures are not provided.

Where the sources agree

  • Three co-workers invented the device after seeing colleagues improvise with paper towels
  • The business required patenting, prototyping, and selling a simple physical product to facilities
  • No revenue figures were provided

What each source says

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Side Hustle School frames it as three friends inventing and selling a hands-free restroom door opener to facilities.

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