192 Startup Ideas


  1. Netflix for books/used books; online delivery service

  2. Automatic thank you notes, sent to contacts as a postcard generated from uploaded contact lists. On the card is a highly realistic signature that users digitally upload.

  3. Interest free loans

  4. An IMDB for people who have won awards. I want to a quick way to find the professors with the most citations in any given subject, the chefs in the area with the best Zagats reviews, the local high school football players with the most touchdowns, etc.

  5. An app that lets you grab your favorite snips/clips from a movie to share them with friends

  6. Uber for lawn care/yard work

  7. An app to gently remind you of people worse off than you and why you should be grateful for being you.

  8. An app that tells you why modern day trends exist and why you don't necessarily need to conform to them.

  9. A calorie counting app that gives advice to improve what you're doing based on the actions you’re taking

  10. Tool to generate simple placeholder logos

  11. Book summary podcast – would include a long version with an in-depth summary and a lazy person’s version with three things to know and what to say when someone asks you about it.

  12. Platform to discover emerging social media influencers

  13. A meditation app

  14. An online marketplace for scientific experiments

  15. Uber for babysitters

  16. An app to help you read through web pages faster

  17. A gift card exchange marketplace where anybody can buy, sell, or trade their new or pre-owned gift cards

  18. Keep track of your plants and remember to water them

  19. A company that makes cloth napkins made of old tshirts

  20. App to clear your camera roll of duplicates and automatically pick the best photos

  21. Site to discover failed startup ideas

  22. SMS alerts for last minute extremely cheap flight tickets

  23. System that sends me my receipts electronically via email rather than paper copies at the store. Could either work with my credit card company or via the loyalty cards stores offer.

  24. An easier way to meet like minded people in your area

  25. A tool that predicts flight delays

  26. Nap stations throughout the city. To integrate it into our culture, we can introduce them through napping stations similar to coffee houses.

  27. Real-time world/local news on an interactive map

  28. A gratitude app that teaches you to thank yourself for all the good you do for yourself and for others too.

  29. An app to suggest outdoor activities based on the weather in your area

  30. Coffee with nearby professionals

  31. An app to help you fall asleep

  32. Known For - discover what each restaurant or store is known for or special for

  33. A service to get on demand help and advice on the health of your pets, making sure they’re always happy and well

  34. Chewing gum that is good for braces and dentures

  35. An app to learn one super interesting fact everyday

  36. Social media platform where users vouch for other users on certain topics, skills or professions

  37. Interview practice company - A company that will do mock interviews with you and give you feedback on your performance.

  38. An online community where investors share investment ideas with each other

  39. Snap a picture of a food dish and get similar dishes or recommendations

  40. Job swap board for stay at home moms – I'll do your laundry if you do my grocery shopping.

  41. Mobile app that notes the GPS location of your car when you park it so you can find it again

  42. Service to get paid for reviewing products

  43. Linkedin for challenged/disabled people

  44. Find someone to learn a foreign language from, while you teach them your language

  45. Weekly deliveries of fresh groceries from your local farms

  46. Privacy policy generator

  47. An app to find someone to go on an adventure with

  48. Uber for home made meals. Hire a mom to make you a great meal.

  49. A social platform for watching sports and communicating with others who are watching the same game

  50. Uber for caregivers

  51. A meter that tells you when you've had enough caffeine and when you should stop drinking.

  52. A tailored surprise subscription box. The user tells you their interests. You send them something awesome each month.

  53. SMS donations for charities

  54. A directory of conferences, events and speakers

  55. An alternative to Linkedin. Something way less spammy.

  56. Automated invoice collections for small businesses

  57. Discovering some random plant based alternative to lithium, something that is a battery technology breakthrough

  58. Travel agency that shows you dying civilizations

  59. A service that provides specific enthusiastic people who want to volunteer or have time to go engage with people at nursing homes and doing activities with them.

  60. Cell phone made of biodegradable materials

  61. A platform for entrepreneurs to find co-founders

  62. Rent a pet to see if it's a good idea for your family

  63. Uber for auto-repair. Get a trusted mechanic sent to your home.

  64. A fresh/warm loaf of bread delivered to your door in under an hour

  65. An alarm clock app that charges you a nickel each time you click snooze

  66. A travel company that takes people around to small towns in the South.

  67. A website that aggregates food in grocery stores that is about to expire and gives you a big discount on it. This would help to greatly reduce the millions of tons of pre-consumer food waste each year.

  68. Home delivery of pet food/snacks/toys on a set schedule

  69. Service that declutters your home when you aren't there

  70. A company that digs your car out of the snow and removes snow from your driveway and starts car in the morning.

  71. A service that connects the homeless with someone who is regularly integrated into society. This person will become friends with the homeless person and talk with them, help them to believe in themselves again.

  72. Selfie drones. Cheap drones that you can attach your smartphone to, that will take the best possible selfie/group selfie.

  73. Cleanflix - a service that lets you automatically skip nudity on Netflix

  74. A place to play board games and eat/drink, like a coffee house, but where board games are the main focus.

  75. Themed newsletters - Daily, weekly or monthly newsletters themed at making you the best possible version of you that you can be

  76. Search engine for K-12 students

  77. A lost and found aggregator, pulling from craigslist and various other sources

  78. Neighborhood phone book

  79. An app to post a list of food from your pantry you want to get rid of, to see if others want it

  80. Service to find a hiking buddy

  81. Tool to plan a random vacation based on your budget

  82. Relaunching a service like Vine

  83. Self-destructing emails

  84. An app to quickly fact check arguments using high quality resources/sources if a point/argument has solid scientific backing

  85. Vacation rental management service

  86. Site to discover startup ideas that were acquired

  87. A service that automatically invests in stocks based on your interests

  88. Platform to let users split subscription costs and share services such as cable tv, HBO, Netflix, etc

  89. Advertisement based captcha

  90. SMS reminders for TODOs

  91. A marketplace for developers to sell their side projects

  92. An app to track the progress on the book you're reading through, giving an estimation of how long is left.

  93. An app to help you better focus throughout the day

  94. Ads on paper towels. Give out free paper towel rolls, each tab has some unique advertisement on it.

  95. A trend of the month club, where each month you get mailed something hip with a glossy booklet explaining how cool that item is about to become. Limited to 5,000 people. Gives you a cool story to tell yourself for the rest of the month, and something to talk about with your friends.

  96. Brainstorm support – call in service with someone to talk with you to help get your brain going

  97. Personalized cereal boxes (to celebrate child's achievements)

  98. Uber for dog walkers

  99. Online shark-tank - pitch investors online

  100. A tool to generate or relieve boredom when people need a mental boost

  101. Real world bookmarking app

  102. A note taking app that's actually affective and different from all the other ones

  103. Virtual home interior decorator

  104. In-grocery store prep service (buy vegetables first and drop them off to be chopped to your specs - pick them up on the way to checkout)

  105. Pandora of news

  106. Annotations for Netflix - see the most interesting scenes in a movie. See what others are thinking about any particular scene.

  107. Wearable device for assisting the visually challenged

  108. A service for spam mailboxes, disposable email accounts for all your junkmail

  109. A self praise app. Sometimes you need encouragement, use the applause app to get praise for your accomplishments from supporting peers

  110. Subscription service that send you one random book each month

  111. A gift recommendation engine that pulls products from Amazon

  112. Grocery delivery service for college campuses: Fresh direct for dorm rooms.

  113. Recycling for people (offer to pick up their recyclables and take care of it all for them... for a fee + the value of the recyclables

  114. A service to browse live supermarket inventory

  115. A workaholic checker app - Analyses your calendar and where you spend your time, helping you move away from workaholism, and closer to balance.

  116. Prepackaged school supplies based on the lists from the school districts

  117. Self-destructing text messages

  118. A service for landlords, managers, and agents to simplify the process of finding and signing a new tenant for your rental property

  119. An app to split the rent with roommates automatically

  120. A service that lets you rent a fully loaded adventure car

  121. A social network for sharing film suggestions

  122. Hug Buddy - find a random person that is going through tough times to give them a hug and show emotional support

  123. Car/home insurance where each user ends up owning part of the insurance company

  124. App to round up your spare change on purchases and donate it charity

  125. Search engine for reviews

  126. Relaunch something like Homejoy

  127. A service where you are sent a random awesome product from Amazon each week for $5 or under

  128. An app that tracks when you're your best self and aims to do what it can to keep you/get you back to that point

  129. A food service where you can email them your mom's recipes and have them make it for you and deliver it during lunch time.

  130. An app to help beat procrastination

  131. ThatsAThing.com - tells you if things already exists

  132. Smart IOT devices for gardening

  133. A tool to keep track of all your subscriptions

  134. 23andMe for cats/dogs - Most pet owners want to know there pets are healthy and in good shape, this would help improve anxiety and do just that.

  135. Marketplace for wedding vendors

  136. An email bot that sends sarcastic messages over and over when you open your emails (client or otherwise).

  137. An app that sends you alerts for limited free stuff in your area everyday

  138. Netflix for home exercise equipment. Swap out your ergometer for an elliptical and then swap that for a treadmill.

  139. A social network for doctors

  140. A platform for professionals to donate their time/services to local charities

  141. A browser extension that monitors surfing behavior to let you know when you spend too much time on time wasting sites

  142. An app to tell you exact wait times at restaurants nearby

  143. A service that lets you Airbnb your backyard pool

  144. Meal delivery in hospitals

  145. An app to cheer you up when you're having a bad day

  146. An app that lets you scan a parking sign and tell you if you can actually park there or not

  147. Service to rent a personal assistant for the day

  148. Service that keeps inventory in a household (products, cleaning, etc.)

  149. Bike Garage. A garage within a current attended car garage that stores bikes for a small fee and you are guaranteed it will not be stolen.

  150. Chat with a random person about a current event

  151. Super local news

  152. Currency calculator with on-the-fly conversion

  153. SMS alerts for traffic nearby

  154. American Idol online where the user judge the you own peers and strangers, built on a karaoke format.

  155. A website that aggregates places you can go for factory tours. Like Ben & Jerry's, the Cape Cod potato chips factory, etc.

  156. Keyless entry using your phone

  157. Order fresh stuff from local farms

  158. An app that makes mondays less awful

  159. A live streaming video platform focused on video gaming and eSports

  160. A browser extension to show a summary at the top of any news article you are reading

  161. Photography studio that casts you as characters from movies

  162. A chat app for discussing divisive topics with strangers

  163. A memory training chrome extension - Every day a new memory training exercises will appears in your Chrome tabs for you to work through.

  164. A service to let you create your own ice cream flavors

  165. Marketplace for pre-owned high end clothing

  166. A place where people could go to eat/study but would HAVE to do it at the same table with a stranger. It would encourage us to talk to/meet new and interesting people.

  167. An alternative to Facebook, that's clean, functional, and has some basic respect for user's privacy

  168. Relaunching a service like StumbleUpon

  169. Bedtime story company - Company that you call who reads you a bedtime story if you can't fall asleep

  170. A water testing kit to see if your water has minerals and stuff in it and is making you sick

  171. This or that comparison app

  172. A water bottle that rewards you for reusing it, refilling it and drinking more water.

  173. A platform for professionals to barter time and services

  174. A service that lets you annotate any video on the web

  175. Birthday gifts reminder app

  176. Train delay alerts by SMS

  177. eBay for free stuff

  178. Subscription service that send you one random trendy movie each week

  179. An app that notifies you of new laws in your area

  180. An app to figure out how arrogant you are, what level is acceptable for your life/career path and how to improve that.

  181. A service that allows restaurants to fill tables by varying prices to increase demand

  182. An app to count how many times per day you unlock your phone, and translates that data into how fragmented and weak your focus has become

  183. An ethical hotline - ethics experts answer questions related to ethics for fee per hour

  184. Blockchain based lending platform

  185. SMS alerts of news based on events within a 3 mile radius of you

  186. Real-time mentions of your startup from social & the web

  187. An app to notify you when you are no longer on hold, so you don't have to listen to hold music anymore

  188. An app that tells you what places are open right now

  189. Personalized alarm clocks that sync with a user's body and their iPhone

  190. A habit tracker

  191. An app that asks if you should send an email or message before you send it (avoids being triggered by emotions etc.)

  192. Netflix for expensive clothing. Users can cycle through a couple items per month

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