Million Dollar Home Page
Million Dollar Home Page is the perfect example of a one day idea. It was created by a graduating high school senior and only involves basic HTML knowledge. It was setup in a few days with the only costs being web hosting and domain registration. Two months later, it gets over 100K visitors a day and has made its founder over $300,000.
If you had thought of this idea, would you have pursued it? While this idea is one of the rare ideas that manage to breakout, I think it is possible over-time to refine one's thinking to the point that the probability of having a breakout idea is high. Furthermore, I think we live in a unique era where the time and money involved to create one of these ideas is extremely small.
It is commonly accepted that 10% of an company's success is inspiration and the other 90% is perspiration. One day ideas turn this upside down.