A short list of great ideas that I've had over the years that have been preemptively stolen from me by other people. Breakfast sandwiches. Finger moistener for counting money/sorting papers. Recordings of nature sounds to help people fall asleep. Hugelkultur. My genius only goes unappreciated because clearly, I was born too late in history.
I independently developed horseshoe theory in a friend's filthy bedroom that smelled like cat shit when I was 20. It wasn't as robust as the real one but it was kinda cool when I learned about horseshoe theory this year because apparently I was on to something the same summer I smoked a bunch of weed and realized left turns on that city's weird access road/overpass system were the same as regular right turns everywhere else because the yield rules are similar
Did Hugelkultur with my housemates in a cool Burner house I ran for a few years. Holy crap that produced a LOT of food! Worked really well. The six of us in the house had a common budget and common meals every day of the week. Most of our veggies came out of our yard. That shit works, man.
I was just thinking it'd be a great way to create a small hill for a flower bed, something where you don't have to worry about whether or not you can accidentally mow the flowers. I was telling this idea I had to my friend, who works at a garden center, about how it probably wouldn't be too hard to build a mound for flowers over the course of about five years. Every time there's a windstorm, collect the branches into a circular pile. Do this all year. Then come spring, when you're dumping out any excess and leftover soil, dump them on the pile of branches. Add leftover mulch, buy more soil, do whatever to better fill in the mound. Rinse and repeat every year until the mound gets to the diameter and height you want, and then convert it into a flower bed. "That's a thing," he said. "People need to stop thinking of my ideas before I do," I said. "It's called hugelkulture. Look it up, you'll really like it." So I did, and I do.