192 Startup Ideas


  1. 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

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

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

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

  5. A marketplace for developers to sell their side projects

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

  7. Site to discover startup ideas that were acquired

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

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

  10. SMS alerts for last minute extremely cheap flight tickets

  11. 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

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

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

  14. Super local news

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

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

  17. A meditation app

  18. Service to get paid for reviewing products

  19. Wearable device for assisting the visually challenged

  20. Blockchain based lending platform

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

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

  23. Pandora of news

  24. A tool to keep track of all your subscriptions

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

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

  27. 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.

  28. Uber for dog walkers

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

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

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

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

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

  34. A social network for doctors

  35. Service to find a hiking buddy

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

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

  38. Advertisement based captcha

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  46. Photography studio that casts you as characters from movies

  47. Interest free loans

  48. 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.

  49. A chat app for discussing divisive topics with strangers

  50. Search engine for K-12 students

  51. Site to discover failed startup ideas

  52. A service that lets you Airbnb your backyard pool

  53. Privacy policy generator

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

  55. Tool to generate simple placeholder logos

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

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

  58. Search engine for reviews

  59. Uber for babysitters

  60. An app to learn one super interesting fact everyday

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

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

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

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

  65. 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

  66. A platform for professionals to barter time and services

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

  68. Automated invoice collections for small businesses

  69. Birthday gifts reminder app

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

  71. eBay for free stuff

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

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

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

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

  76. Marketplace for wedding vendors

  77. 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.

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

  79. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  87. Train delay alerts by SMS

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

  89. 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.

  90. Meal delivery in hospitals

  91. 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.

  92. A service to browse live supermarket inventory

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

  94. Vacation rental management service

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

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

  97. Neighborhood phone book

  98. A directory of conferences, events and speakers

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

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

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

  102. A platform for entrepreneurs to find co-founders

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

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

  105. Uber for lawn care/yard work

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

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

  108. An app to help you fall asleep

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

  110. Real world bookmarking app

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

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

  113. Chat with a random person about a current event

  114. Marketplace for pre-owned high end clothing

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

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

  117. A social network for sharing film suggestions

  118. A tool that predicts flight delays

  119. Uber for caregivers

  120. Chewing gum that is good for braces and dentures

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

  122. Relaunch something like Homejoy

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

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

  125. 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.

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

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

  128. Service to rent a personal assistant for the day

  129. 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.

  130. SMS donations for charities

  131. SMS alerts for traffic nearby

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

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

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

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

  136. Weekly deliveries of fresh groceries from your local farms

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

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

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

  140. 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.

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

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

  143. Self-destructing emails

  144. This or that comparison app

  145. Currency calculator with on-the-fly conversion

  146. An app to help beat procrastination

  147. Platform to discover emerging social media influencers

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

  149. Keyless entry using your phone

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

  151. SMS reminders for TODOs

  152. 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.

  153. An online marketplace for scientific experiments

  154. Coffee with nearby professionals

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

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

  157. Relaunching a service like Vine

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

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

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

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

  162. Smart IOT devices for gardening

  163. An app to split the rent with roommates automatically

  164. Self-destructing text messages

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

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

  167. 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)

  168. Travel agency that shows you dying civilizations

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

  170. Cell phone made of biodegradable materials

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

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

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

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

  175. An app that makes mondays less awful

  176. A habit tracker

  177. Linkedin for challenged/disabled people

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

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

  180. A gift recommendation engine that pulls products from Amazon

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

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

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

  184. Online shark-tank - pitch investors online

  185. 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.

  186. Virtual home interior decorator

  187. 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.

  188. Order fresh stuff from local farms

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

  190. Relaunching a service like StumbleUpon

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

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

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