Business Ideas
I love coming up with business ideas. Unfortunately, they aren't worth the bytes they're stored on (http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html). I am putting all of them out there. Maybe they will inspire you to create something new, start a startup, and make a billion dollars. Some of them i have made attempts at creating, and are linked below. Have fun!
📚 Book
- Talk to the Pictures – Children's Picture Book (Link)
I wrote this book where there are no word, only beautiful intricate landscapes and the parents have to make up stories for the kids. Just need that publisher! - Parenting Book (Link)
It would be awesome to write a book on parenting. That is all. - NEW: Rewrite Ecclesiastes in Millennial Voice. (Link)
Eccelesiastes is an incredible piece of wisdom literature. What would "Everything is meaningless" sound like through the mind and experience of a millenial? - NEW: Kids Book Series: (Link)
The Monkey who Washed his Hands. The Elephant who covered his cough. PSA's to teach kids in book form. - NEW: Informational Interviews (Link)
A whole book on doing informational interviews. Hey I actually did this one! - Go After the Heart (Link)
A book or website that helps people understand their heart. What is driving you? What do you believe about yourself? What is at the root of your struggles?
💼 Career
- Clara Labs for Informational Interviews (Link)
You have seen http://www.claralabs.com. I want to someone to make me an AI assistan that reaches out to people on a list and sets up coffees with them for me. - Informational Interview Consulting (Link)
Consultancy that helps evangelize the informational interview way. - Informational interview Club in your Organization (Link)
A SaaS that allows your club/church/business to schedule and match people up for informational interviews within the org. - Linkedin – Shoebox Automates your relationships (Link)
This takes the shoebox concept of CRM (all your contacts on cards in a shoebox, call the front one each day, place card in the back, repeat), syncs your Linkedin contacts, and tells you who to talk to that day. - Look Inside for New Hires (Link)
Company takes pictures of inside of their office so prospective employees know the culture/space they are getting into. Hey Glassdoor this would be great for you! - Excel Class (Link)
Excel training/education platform - Real Estate Education platform (Link)
Why is there no platform teaching the pillars of commercial ie legal, finance, dd, etc, market analysis etc - Micro-schools (Link)
Remake the homeschool for modern people
💰 Finance/Business
- Imgur for Excel (Link)
Upload excel spreadsheet/database generates link to put back into excel as data source . Super dumb dynamic online excel database. - Doctor Insurance Marketplace (Link)
A new online marketplace for doctors to get thier insurance from brokers. - Prelang for Excel (Link)
http://www.prelang.com but to generate different kinds of excel spreadsheets - Startup Benefit (Link)
Cataloging all the benefits startups offer, from 401k to Zumba classes. Made this one too! - Stop Slackers (Link)
Logs all employees use, anonymously. Found http://www.rescuetime.com which does this awesomely! - Track Business Decisions (Link)
On projects, when do they get made and by who. Now you know who decided to approve the $1m on the new ping-pong room. - What are the Returns? (Link)
Website that tells you the returns of everything, including stocks, bonds, VC, real estate, etc. - What can I Invest in? (Link)
Website with every type of investment somebody can make. - Be the coolest investor (Link)
Invest in cool shit - Be the first investor in underserved areas (Link)
Geographic first-mover advantage strategy - Investment management portal (Link)
Investment committee and portfolio management platform
🎮 Games
- Pretty slots (Link)
Slot machine game with Dots design. All the slot machine apps are ugly. Someone needs to marry pretty flat design with slots. $$$ - NEW: Baseball Simulator (Link)
Golf simulator? Boring! How about home run derby, with real bats and everything! - Celebrity lottery (Link)
Buy lottery tickets to become a celebrity
🌱 Personal Growth
- Affirm (Link)
10 daily quotes affirmations to get you through the day. "You are awesome!" "You are loved!" "You are pretty!" - What is your Worldview? (Link)
My shifting worldview app that asks 20-30 questions every six months that does personal analytics on your worldview. Politics positions, spirituality positions, self-worth, beliefts, etc. - IDentity (Link)
A series of questions that help you define your identity - Tests (Link)
Various assessment/testing tools (personality, strengths, etc.) - Create a service corps (Link)
Korean-style required service for men who are lost - Tastebuds drug (Link)
COVID made people lose their taste - could this stop overeating? - Effective Gospel (Link)
Effective altruism for spreading the gospel
🏢 Real Estate
- Commercial Real Estate For Sale Listings (Link)
There is no open and free real estate listing site. Loopnet is garbage. - Angelist for Real estate (Link)
Make an http://www.Angelist.com clone, but for the real estate industry. This would have http://www.mattermark.com levels of analytics, ability to fundraise, and careers/job postings. - Appraisals for Crowdfunded Real Estate Deals (Link)
Crowdfunders have no way to analyze deals. This is a 3rd party who can quickly underwrite and give ratings to individual equity investments in deals - Broker Listings for Sale API (Link)
An API that brings together all commercial real estate listings into one API. CBRE, JLL, Colliers, Cushman Wakefield-All of Them! - CoLiving (Link)
Like WeWork but for living. 21st Century Communes without the Weirdness - Comp Tracker for Internal Businesses (Link)
A way for businesses to track sale and lease comparables. For real estate and M&A. - CRE Tech Blog (Link)
There are a lot of these now, but always more room for blogs on real estate technology that don't suck. - Dog Park Technology and Construction Systems (Link)
Every new multifamily development now has aspects that include amenities for dogs. Become the dog-park-in-apartments expert! - Entitlements Saas (Link)
SaaS for city websites that manages multiple entitlements and building permits applications. Now developers and constructors can easily see what the status of their applications are without navigating a circa-1995 website. - Funds/Syndication Management (Link)
Saas that allows small investor/developers to manage their investors distributions and reporting in-house. - Housemax (Link)
Carmax for single family homes, buy it now price, close in 10 days, instant home liquidity. - Land Sourcer for Big Developers (Link)
A SaaS/AI that finds large parcels of land or multi-owner parcels that are under-developed and could be redeveloped to higher and better uses. - Argus Knock-Off (Link)
Upseat the monopoly on real estate underwriting. It's just souped-up Excel! http://www.argussoftware.com/ - Market Data Dashboard Tool (Link)
Aggregates all broker data: absorption, inventory, rents, etc from broker reports into one website - Mint for Real Estate (Link)
Be able to plug in your real estate holdings and get realtime analytics on the properties performance. - Title Company Mapping (Link)
One massive ALTA survey to rule them all. - LearnCRE.com (Link)
I did this one. This is a set of lectures and presentations I did to teach the fundamentals of institutional real estate investment. - Real Estate Startup Incubator (Link)
http://www.ycombinator.com for Real Estate companies. Startups trade equity for cash, mentorship, investment. - Real Rent (Link)
Plots everyone's actual rent everywhere. Glassdoor for apt rentals. - REAnalyst (Link)
Marketplace for real estate analysts to find part time work, companies to find part-time analysts. - Where to find Deals? (Link)
A class/system for finding real estate deals. - Underwriting Assumptions (Link)
Prove your underwriting to investment committee without hassle and pricing of appraisals. 3rd party provided underwriting assumptions straight from the market. - YourFloor.co (Link)
$300 for a beautiful floorplan of your for-sale listing. http://www.matterport.com but just for floorplans. - Zoning in Sim Cities (Link)
Load real cities into Sim Cities videogame and see what the real life effects are of new development. Now City Councils can know that the new apartment development down the street will increase homelessness, gentrification, and tax revenue. - Buy Houses off Market (Link)
Software that generates real offers on 1000's of houses within certain parameters. - NEW: Mini-Mini Storage (Link)
Instead of going across town to your mini storage, building owners rent empty space as ministorages, using quick-setup modular storage divisors. Empty space in urban areas gets filled! - NEW: International House Swap for High-End Clientele (Link)
Rich people don't want the hassle of AirBnb. They need a match-making service swapping your ocean-view penthouse in South Beach for your flat in London. - NEW: Real Estate Website for Churches (Link)
Churches have a notoriously hard time finding real estate space. The combination of learning land use, understanding mortgages, finding contractors to do work for you are very difficult. This website is a marketplace and educational site as a one stop shop to help religious users find space. - NEW: Movable Cubicle Hotel (Link)
This has to be illegal, but what the heck! In party cities like Las Vegas, South Beach, or New York City, often all you need is a place to crash. This is a souped up 18-wheeler with enough space to sleep 20 people. Since it is constantly moving, you don't need to worry about all the trappings of running a hotel! - RE Developer Equity platform (Link)
Equity investment platform for real estate developers - Stripe Atlas for Real Estate (Link)
Business formation service specifically for real estate companies - Service that helps people who want to invest in real estate (Link)
Lead generation for brokers - helps people figure out how to invest in real estate - Property management business (Link)
Property management service business - Stock dashboard for real estate (Link)
Real estate investment dashboard with stock-like interface - Tracking market comparables software (Link)
CoStar but for our own inside data - internal market comparables tracking software - Market Report Aggregation and publishing (Link)
Publishes and aggregates all CRE market reports into one website - Plot People's land use, title, tract, etc Maps (Link)
Why is there no massive title map of everything everywhere? Comprehensive land use and title mapping service on Google Earth - Every real estate company mapped (Link)
Comprehensive directory and mapping of all real estate companies - Infill Development Finder (Link)
30-100k single tenant hyperinfill locations finder in top MSAs - Podcast breaking down deals (Link)
Real estate deal analysis and breakdown podcast - LoopNetGoneWild (Link)
Enhanced and improved real estate listing platform - The lay of the land industrial map (Link)
LinkedIn viral industrial real estate mapping idea - List of every real estate company by geography (Link)
Pretty PDF directory of real estate companies organized geographically - Valuations Management Software (Link)
Dealpath for Valuations - manage valuation process and data - AI Chatbot for real estate documents (Link)
Question answering system for commercial real estate legal documents - Real estate return prediction aggregator (Link)
Platform for aggregating and predicting current real estate investment returns - Supply/Demand Marketplace for new ag plantings (Link)
Tells farmers what crops will likely be in low supply vs demand - Bifurcated cold storage fund (Link)
One fund owns real estate, other owns refrigeration equipment, split the rent - Distance to the coast per sqft metric (Link)
Best way to see cheapest beach house cost per square foot - Real estate updowns (Link)
Index-based real estate derivatives traded on Robinhood-style app - Transload Fund (Link)
Specialized logistics real estate investment fund - Targeted Inbox for CRE sales (Link)
Email sorting system for commercial real estate deal flow marketing - Everyone's acquisition criteria (Link)
Website aggregating all buyers' acquisition criteria in one place - Search fund for real estate (Link)
Emerging manager program for real estate acquisitions - Geographical based CRM for brokers (Link)
Location-based customer relationship management for real estate brokers - Tiny SaaS for small time investors (Link)
Track tenants, rent collections, and security deposits for small real estate investors - Keeper Tax for real estate investors (Link)
Tax optimization and tracking specifically for real estate investors - Union-jobs industrial developer (Link)
Industrial development focused on union labor markets - Fresno institutional asset manager (Link)
Institutional-quality asset management in secondary markets - EveryRealEstateDeal (Link)
Ultimate aggregation platform for all commercial real estate deals and listings - LOI writer (Link)
Automated letter of intent generator for real estate transactions - Real Estate News Site (Link)
Comprehensive real estate news aggregation and RSS platform - Use LEX/AI to write or negotiate offers (Link)
AI-powered real estate offer writing and negotiation tool - Own Amazon interior improvements (Link)
Specialize in Amazon warehouse and fulfillment center improvements - How to win broker book (Link)
Educational content and strategies for working effectively with real estate brokers - 10 Pillars of Real Estate Data (Link)
Comprehensive real estate data management and analytics platform - AR property rights/royalties (Link)
Augmented reality applications for property rights and royalty management - Non-profit gathering places (Link)
Scaled version of community gathering spaces for back-roads America - Warehouse info site (Link)
Educational platform explaining how warehouse and logistics operations work
❤️ Relationships/Family
- What Should We Do Together? (Link)
Tinder-like app for a couple to find activities/hobbies they will both like. You just found out you both like: sailing, line dancing, and shuffleboard! - Date Night Scheduler (Link)
Put out requests for babysitters for your date nights. Why is it so hard to find someone to watch the kids? - Little Wife Gifts (Link)
Monthly subscription box filled with little gifts for husbands to give to their wives. Think lotions, candles, décor, cards, jewelry etc. I am terrible at giving gifts and a monthly box would help me so much! I started this one, then stopped it because I have no clue how to run a subscription box service. - NEW: Significant Other Inventory (Link)
I have a horrible time keeping track of the "little things" about my wife: family birthdays, clothes sizes, likes and dislikes, etc. This app is a one stop shop to keep track of all these things. Bonus for adding shopping reccomendations based on what she likes! - NEW: What Type of Parent are you going to be? (Link)
Becoming a parent is an amazing experience. It's also overwhelming. How do I learn how? What to Expect? Ferber Method? Google Everything? Baby Whisperer? This app gathers your preferences about how YOU want to parent, and then gives personalized reccomendations for what books to read, sites to visit, things to try.
💻 SaaS
- Dark Ages (Link)
Randomly disables any use of your phone for set periods of time. Like a blackout. Forces humanworld interaction! - DOCX PPTX Image Archiver (Link)
Saas that scans all word or ppt docs for images, backs them up and creates a visual database of pictures that are in docs. No longer searching through word and ppt files for the right doc. - Resetpassword.co (Link)
A site that gives you the direct link to reset your password. A direct response to the Heartbleed Bug - Visual Email Search (Link)
An email client that lets you browse email via thumbnails vs line by line. Easy way to spot spam (since its all HTML). - Where am I registered across the web? (Link)
Type in your most common username/password combinations. It tells you: You have logins at the following sites: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc. etc. - NEW: Help Restaurants make better printed menus (Link)
It is amazing how restaurants still have dorky looking menus! This is a cheap service where a restaurant takes a picture of their menu and it gets converted to a sweet, legible, well-designed menu. And prints and sends them to your door! - NEW: Git Tracker for Excel (Link)
Excel models are notoriously difficult to follow and track versions. Adding one step to the saving process using a Git-like structure adds transparency of an audit trail and what has been changed in the last version - NEW: Guitar Chords App (Link)
A redesign of guitar chords that actually works the way most players play: give me the chords and help me remember the lyrics. Each chord chart isnt 4 pages long, requiring scrolling and squinting, but only has the verse, chorus, and bridge chords, along with the first few words of every line. It all fits on an index card! - NEW: Excel to HTML (Link)
Markdown is great for generating HTML, but asking a business person to learn a new writing language is a tough ask. Instead, this Saas/addin to Excel generates clean HTML tables and copy straight from Excel. - HTML TABLES embed code snippet from excel (Link)
Service to convert Excel data to embeddable HTML tables via drag and drop - AI app that lets you interactively re-write the classics (Link)
Modern language translator for classic literature - The Zeitgeist (Link)
Single page showing everything in popular media - Twitter trending, Spotify top plays, Amazon top books, etc. - Tests Inventory (Link)
Comprehensive personality and career test aggregation platform - Automated CRM that makes list-sites (Link)
Feed it a website, tech automatically generates pages and directory for that site - Track business activity with truck court cameras (Link)
Surveillance analytics for business activity monitoring - Uber for Live Video within a geography (Link)
Order live video or recorded video so you don't have to drive to a location - "Field Ops" - Healthcare records idea (Link)
Service that collates all of your medical records from dozens of different doctors - CPA marketplace, portal and dashboard (Link)
Accounting services platform and marketplace - Person who yells at you for breaking budget (Link)
High-touch mint/personal capital with accountability - Onboarding email lists (Link)
Subscribing to multiple company-specific email lists critical for new employees - Erase Me (Link)
Premium service who personally erases you from the internet - Be my eyes for everyone (Link)
Visual assistance platform for broader accessibility
⚽ Sports
- Downhill (Link)
I love to bomb hills. This is a mapping software that finds the best: paved streets+high gradient+low traffic-dead ends.
✍️ Writing
- Retype the Masters (Link)
Following the footsteps of Hemingway, this is a site where you can retype word for word, amazing pieces of prose and poetry. Get inspired by retyping the masters.
🛒 E-commerce
- Stumbleupon for E-commerce (Link)
Make a Stumbleupon for lots of cool online stores you have never heard of. Like windowshopping in a cool neighboorhood, but online. - NEW: Pinterest for Craigslist (Link)
A UI redisgn of Craigslist, where you scroll, and scroll and scroll… - Toy/gear rental for monthly membership (Link)
Monthly subscription service for toy and gear rentals - Food truck bid/ask website (Link)
Marketplace for food truck services and locations
📦 Product
- Squiggle for Moms (Link)
Check out https://www.sqwiggle.com/. Now imagine instead of coworkers, you have lonely stay at home moms that other moms can talk to. - MintDash (Link)
A small dashboard in your kitchen that displays your mint budget. A daily way to check your spending! - NEW: Throttle Leash (Link)
I always used to take my dog for a walk on a longboard. She would pull me 25 miles per hour! I needed a way to slow her down without yanking her. Step in "Throttle Leash!" - NEW: Real Estate Bookstore (Link)
Not many great bookstores for real estate books. Amazon storefront anyone? - NEW: See-Through Boogie Board/SUP (Link)
When surfing or boogie boarding, you are always looking at your board. Why not look through your board? This would be an entirely new way to explore coral reefs and the sea, without the need to strap on googles and a snorkel. - Home office on wheels (Link)
Mobile workspace solution - Breathing device shaped like cigarette (Link)
Tricks you into long cleansing breaths for health - WeWork for Stay at Home Moms (Link)
Community space with childcare, food, fitness, and self-care - Homeschool Space (Link)
WeWork for homeschool groups - WeWork for trailer parking (Link)
Shared facilities for RV and trailer parking - WeWork for logistics/warehousing (Link)
Shared warehouse and fulfillment space - Coliving for vanlife (Link)
Community spaces for van life enthusiasts - YMCA 2.0 Private parks (Link)
Membership-only private parks with great amenities and community building
🎵 Entertainment/Events
- BarTown (Link)
A destination concept with different themed bars in the same building: tiki, whisky, beer, with common fun areas like arcades, TVs, live music - Crazy live music band experience (Link)
Interactive concert experiences with conga lines, call and response, primal scream, infectious dancing - The Reserve (Link)
Ranch owned by friends for mutual use and enjoyment of their families - retreat and community space
🌐 Social Networking
Social network where employees within same building, different tenant can connect
When reading an article, chrome extension tells you how much it has been commented on, and where. A service that lets you know where discussion is going on across the web.
Higher quality posts and articles than the dribble that most moms read on their Facebook feeds. I made kinda a start at the link above.
Shazam + Up/Down vote for live wedding dj feedback. No more terrible songs that kill the dancefloor.
Social platform for discussing business ideas
Person who tweets for you to build your personal brand