217 Startup Ideas ⚡️

A service where you are sent a random awesome product from Amazon each week for $5 or under
Relaunching a service like Vine
Relaunching a service like StumbleUpon
An alternative to Facebook, that's clean, functional, and has some basic respect for user's privacy
A gift recommendation engine that pulls products from Amazon
Ads on paper towels. Give out free paper towel rolls, each tab has some unique advertisement on it.
Selfie drones. Cheap drones that you can attach your smartphone to, that will take the best possible selfie/group selfie.
A tailored surprise subscription box. The user tells you their interests. You send them something awesome each month.
A chat app for discussing divisive topics with strangers
A service that lets you Airbnb your backyard pool
A social network for sharing film suggestions
A service that lets you rent a fully loaded adventure car
Vacation rental management service
An app that lets you scan a parking sign and tell you if you can actually park there or not
A social network for doctors
A meditation app
An app that makes mondays less awful
Uber for dog walkers
Uber for caregivers
Blockchain based lending platform
Platform to discover emerging social media influencers
Search engine for K-12 students
Wearable device for assisting the visually challenged
Marketplace for wedding vendors
A service to browse live supermarket inventory
Smart IOT devices for gardening
Marketplace for pre-owned high end clothing
Netflix for expensive clothing. Users can cycle through a couple items per month
Platform to let users split subscription costs and share services such as cable tv, HBO, Netflix, etc
A platform for professionals to barter time and services
Uber for home made meals. Hire a mom to make you a great meal.
Chat with a random person about a current event
A platform for professionals to donate their time/services to local charities
A marketplace for developers to sell their side projects
A platform for entrepreneurs to find co-founders
Advertisement based captcha
SMS reminders for TODOs
Real world bookmarking app
Tool to plan a random vacation based on your budget
App to round up your spare change on purchases and donate it charity
Cleanflix - a service that lets you automatically skip nudity on Netflix
An easier way to meet like minded people in your area
Find someone to learn a foreign language from, while you teach them your language
Privacy policy generator
Super local news
This or that comparison app
Known For - discover what each restaurant or store is known for or special for
Service to find a hiking buddy
Linkedin for challenged/disabled people
Order fresh stuff from local farms
Pandora of news
Uber for babysitters
Snap a picture of a food dish and get similar dishes or recommendations
An app to split the rent with roommates automatically
A lost and found aggregator, pulling from craigslist and various other sources
Train delay alerts by SMS
SMS alerts for traffic nearby
Hug Buddy - find a random person that is going through tough times to give them a hug and show emotional support
SMS alerts for last minute extremely cheap flight tickets
A service for spam mailboxes, disposable email accounts for all your junkmail
Interest free loans
Car/home insurance where each user ends up owning part of the insurance company
Subscription service that send you one random book each month
Subscription service that send you one random trendy movie each week
An app to cheer you up when you're having a bad day
An app that sends you alerts for limited free stuff in your area everyday
An app that notifies you of new laws in your area
A browser extension to show a summary at the top of any news article you are reading
An app that tells you what places are open right now
An app to tell you exact wait times at restaurants nearby
Self-destructing text messages
Self-destructing emails
Currency calculator with on-the-fly conversion
Automated invoice collections for small businesses
Real-time mentions of your startup from social & the web
A habit tracker
Service to get paid for reviewing products
Keep track of your plants and remember to water them
App to clear your camera roll of duplicates and automatically pick the best photos
A tool to keep track of all your subscriptions
Coffee with nearby professionals
Tool to generate simple placeholder logos
SMS donations for charities
An app to post a list of food from your pantry you want to get rid of, to see if others want it
Online shark-tank - pitch investors online
An app to notify you when you are no longer on hold, so you don't have to listen to hold music anymore
Search engine for reviews
An app to find someone to go on an adventure with
Site to discover failed startup ideas
Site to discover startup ideas that were acquired
An app to help beat procrastination
An app to help you better focus throughout the day
An app to help you read through web pages faster
An alternative to Linkedin. Something way less spammy.
A live streaming video platform focused on video gaming and eSports
An online community where investors share investment ideas with each other
A service that lets you annotate any video on the web
A browser extension that monitors surfing behavior to let you know when you spend too much time on time wasting sites
Personalized alarm clocks that sync with a user's body and their iPhone
Keyless entry using your phone
eBay for free stuff
A service that allows restaurants to fill tables by varying prices to increase demand
A tool that predicts flight delays
Relaunch something like Homejoy
A gift card exchange marketplace where anybody can buy, sell, or trade their new or pre-owned gift cards
A social platform for watching sports and communicating with others who are watching the same game
A directory of conferences, events and speakers
An online marketplace for scientific experiments
A service for landlords, managers, and agents to simplify the process of finding and signing a new tenant for your rental property
Uber for auto-repair. Get a trusted mechanic sent to your home.
A fresh/warm loaf of bread delivered to your door in under an hour
Weekly deliveries of fresh groceries from your local farms
SMS alerts of news based on events within a 3 mile radius of you
Uber for lawn care/yard work
Real-time world/local news on an interactive map
Annotations for Netflix - see the most interesting scenes in a movie. See what others are thinking about any particular scene.
Virtual home interior decorator
An app to learn one super interesting fact everyday
An alarm clock app that charges you a nickel each time you click snooze
An app that lets you grab your favorite snips/clips from a movie to share them with friends
A service that automatically invests in stocks based on your interests
An app to suggest outdoor activities based on the weather in your area
An app to help you fall asleep
A note taking app that's actually affective and different from all the other ones
Social media platform where users vouch for other users on certain topics, skills or professions
A self praise app. Sometimes you need encouragement, use the applause app to get praise for your accomplishments from supporting peers
Themed newsletters - Daily, weekly or monthly newsletters themed at making you the best possible version of you that you can be
A memory training chrome extension - Every day a new memory training exercises will appears in your Chrome tabs for you to work through.
A workaholic checker app - Analyses your calendar and where you spend your time, helping you move away from workaholism, and closer to balance.
A service to get on demand help and advice on the health of your pets, making sure they’re always happy and well
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
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
A water bottle that rewards you for reusing it, refilling it and drinking more water.
An app to track the progress on the book you're reading through, giving an estimation of how long is left.
An app that asks if you should send an email or message before you send it (avoids being triggered by emotions etc.)
An app to quickly fact check arguments using high quality resources/sources if a point/argument has solid scientific backing
A gratitude app that teaches you to thank yourself for all the good you do for yourself and for others too.
An app that tells you why modern day trends exist and why you don't necessarily need to conform to them.
An app to gently remind you of people worse off than you and why you should be grateful for being you.
An app to figure out how arrogant you are, what level is acceptable for your life/career path and how to improve that.
A calorie counting app that gives advice to improve what you're doing based on the actions you’re taking
A meter that tells you when you've had enough caffeine and when you should stop drinking.
An email bot that sends sarcastic messages over and over when you open your emails (client or otherwise).
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.
A tool to generate or relieve boredom when people need a mental boost
Discovering some random plant based alternative to lithium, something that is a battery technology breakthrough
Prepackaged school supplies based on the lists from the school districts
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)
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.
Meal delivery in hospitals
Cell phone made of biodegradable materials
Grocery delivery service for college campuses: Fresh direct for dorm rooms.
Service that keeps inventory in a household (products, cleaning, etc.)
Personalized cereal boxes (to celebrate child's achievements)
Photography studio that casts you as characters from movies
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.
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.
Chewing gum that is good for braces and dentures
A company that digs your car out of the snow and removes snow from your driveway and starts car in the morning.
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.
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.
Travel agency that shows you dying civilizations
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.
Neighborhood phone book
A service to let you create your own ice cream flavors
Job swap board for stay at home moms – I'll do your laundry if you do my grocery shopping.
Interview practice company - A company that will do mock interviews with you and give you feedback on your performance.
Nap stations throughout the city. To integrate it into our culture, we can introduce them through napping stations similar to coffee houses.
Bedtime story company - Company that you call who reads you a bedtime story if you can't fall asleep
ThatsAThing.com - tells you if things already exists
Mobile app that notes the GPS location of your car when you park it so you can find it again
Netflix for home exercise equipment. Swap out your ergometer for an elliptical and then swap that for a treadmill.
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.
Home delivery of pet food/snacks/toys on a set schedule
Brainstorm support – call in service with someone to talk with you to help get your brain going
American Idol online where the user judge the you own peers and strangers, built on a karaoke format.
Rent a pet to see if it's a good idea for your family
A company that makes cloth napkins made of old tshirts
A website that aggregates places you can go for factory tours. Like Ben & Jerry's, the Cape Cod potato chips factory, etc.
Netflix for books/used books; online delivery service
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
A travel company that takes people around to small towns in the South.
Service to rent a personal assistant for the day
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.
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.
A place to play board games and eat/drink, like a coffee house, but where board games are the main focus.
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.
Service that declutters your home when you aren't there
A water testing kit to see if your water has minerals and stuff in it and is making you sick
An ethical hotline - ethics experts answer questions related to ethics for fee per hour
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.
Birthday gifts reminder app
A service that lets you rent a fully loaded adventure car
Pay $5 to have somone return all your Amazon packages for you
A service that let's you pay for somone else do do all your Home Depot returns for you
Food Waste Reduction App - Connecting restaurants and stores with excess food to local shelters and food banks
Urban Air Quality Monitoring Network - A network of sensors across a city to monitor air quality and pollution levels in real-time.
AI-Based Home Energy Efficiency Consultant - Analyzing home energy usage and recommending efficiency improvements
Personalized Health and Nutrition DNA Testing - Providing personalized diet and health recommendations based on DNA testing
Edible Insect Farming Kit - Home kits for farming edible insects as a sustainable protein source
AI Personal Chef - An app that designs meal plans based on dietary needs, taste preferences, and ingredient availability, using AI
Smart Mirror for Health and Fitness - A mirror that displays fitness stats, health tips, and workout suggestions
A simpler and prettier version of Google Analytics
An app that lets you find and book a local tour guide
Hyper-local News Platform - A digital platform for community-based news, allowing local journalists and citizens to contribute stories
AI Recipe Creator - Generates personalized recipes based on dietary restrictions, available ingredients, and flavor preferences
Smart Insole for Runners - Insoles with sensors providing real-time feedback on running form, helping to prevent injuries
Subscription Service for Kids' Educational Toys - Delivering age-appropriate, educational toys that stimulate learning and creativity
Personalized Soundscapes for Focus and Relaxation - An app that generates personalized sound environments based on user preferences and psychological profiles to enhance focus or relaxation
Home Automation Solutions for the Elderly - Custom home automation setups that cater specifically to the needs of elderly individuals, promoting safety and ease of use
AI-Powered Receipt Management via SMS and Email - A service that uses AI to automatically organize and categorize receipts sent via SMS or email
A Personal Assistant for Social Interaction
Email digests for favorite topics, saving hours of time - A service that aggregates and summarizes the most important news and information on a user's favorite topics, saving them hours of time
Flight and Hotel Comparison and Booking Platform - A platform that aggregates flight and hotel options from various providers, allowing users to easily compare and book the best deals
AI email unsubscribing service - An AI-powered service that automatically unsubscribes users from unwanted email lists, reducing inbox clutter
AI-Based Excel Formula Generation Tool
Text message reminders to call your parents

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