THIS is a Thing
Stories of entrepreneurs who started unusual businesses + insights for Doers exploring their own wild ideas.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 9
- Latest publication
- Sep 16, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 9, 2026
Latest issues
THIS is a Thing: Slide Parks (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Bron Launsby, Slick City Action Park<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="720" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PgM1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fi
THIS is a Thing: Luxury Art Storage (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Steven Guttman, UOVO<img alt="Some Collectors Take a D.I.Y. Approach; Others Call in the Pros - The New York Times" class="sizing-normal" height="1113" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dEqo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressi
THIS is a Thing: Extreme Car Detailing (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Larry Kosilla, AMMO NYC<img alt="AMMO NYC founder's 1991 964 Carrera 4: Larry Kosilla, the Porsche enthusiast | The Porsche Club of America" class="sizing-normal" height="721" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w685!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q
THIS is a Thing: Drone Shows (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Kevin Prince, Heads in the Sky<img alt="The Silicon Sky: How Kevin Prince Replaced Traditional Fireworks With a Multimillion Dollar Drone Business - The Influential Today" class="sizing-normal" height="874" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_
THIS is a Thing: Silent Discos (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Will Petz, Quiet Events<img alt="Meet the Team" class="sizing-normal" height="502" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n95J!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fim
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.