An alternative to Facebook, that's clean, functional, and has some basic respect for user's privacy
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.
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
An alarm clock app that charges you a nickel each time you click snooze
An app that sends you alerts for limited free stuff in your area everyday
Uber for home made meals. Hire a mom to make you a great meal.
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.
A travel company that takes people around to small towns in the South.
Service that declutters your home when you aren't there
A live streaming video platform focused on video gaming and eSports
App to clear your camera roll of duplicates and automatically pick the best photos
Uber for lawn care/yard work
Real-time world/local news on an interactive map
Mobile app that notes the GPS location of your car when you park it so you can find it again
A habit tracker
Relaunching a service like Vine
Search engine for reviews
Uber for caregivers
A directory of conferences, events and speakers
Discovering some random plant based alternative to lithium, something that is a battery technology breakthrough
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.
An app that tells you what places are open right now
An app that makes mondays less awful
Pandora of news
Subscription service that send you one random trendy movie each week
Site to discover failed startup ideas
Annotations for Netflix - see the most interesting scenes in a movie. See what others are thinking about any particular scene.
An online marketplace for scientific experiments
Platform to discover emerging social media influencers
An app to find someone to go on an adventure with
Super local news
An app to learn one super interesting fact everyday
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.
Photography studio that casts you as characters from movies
An app to notify you when you are no longer on hold, so you don't have to listen to hold music anymore
Brainstorm support – call in service with someone to talk with you to help get your brain going
An app to split the rent with roommates automatically
A lost and found aggregator, pulling from craigslist and various other sources
A service that automatically invests in stocks based on your interests
Snap a picture of a food dish and get similar dishes or recommendations
A social network for sharing film suggestions
A company that makes cloth napkins made of old tshirts
An easier way to meet like minded people in your area
Tool to plan a random vacation based on your budget
American Idol online where the user judge the you own peers and strangers, built on a karaoke format.
A service for landlords, managers, and agents to simplify the process of finding and signing a new tenant for your rental property
An app that notifies you of new laws in your area
An email bot that sends sarcastic messages over and over when you open your emails (client or otherwise).
Netflix for books/used books; online delivery service
Netflix for expensive clothing. Users can cycle through a couple items per month
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.
Coffee with nearby professionals
Service to rent a personal assistant for the day
A meditation app
Weekly deliveries of fresh groceries from your local farms
An app to suggest outdoor activities based on the weather in your area
Service to find a hiking buddy
SMS alerts for last minute extremely cheap flight tickets
A service that lets you rent a fully loaded adventure car
A note taking app that's actually affective and different from all the other ones
A fresh/warm loaf of bread delivered to your door in under an hour
Site to discover startup ideas that were acquired
An app that tells you why modern day trends exist and why you don't necessarily need to conform to them.
Subscription service that send you one random book each month
A service to browse live supermarket inventory
Known For - discover what each restaurant or store is known for or special for
An app to post a list of food from your pantry you want to get rid of, to see if others want it
A workaholic checker app - Analyses your calendar and where you spend your time, helping you move away from workaholism, and closer to balance.
Chat with a random person about a current event
Social media platform where users vouch for other users on certain topics, skills or professions
A social platform for watching sports and communicating with others who are watching the same game
A meter that tells you when you've had enough caffeine and when you should stop drinking.
Self-destructing text messages
Bedtime story company - Company that you call who reads you a bedtime story if you can't fall asleep
Platform to let users split subscription costs and share services such as cable tv, HBO, Netflix, etc
Relaunching a service like StumbleUpon
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.
Find someone to learn a foreign language from, while you teach them your language
A service where you are sent a random awesome product from Amazon each week for $5 or under
Car/home insurance where each user ends up owning part of the insurance company
A platform for entrepreneurs to find co-founders
Rent a pet to see if it's a good idea for your family
Order fresh stuff from local farms
An app that lets you scan a parking sign and tell you if you can actually park there or not
An app to help beat procrastination
Personalized alarm clocks that sync with a user's body and their iPhone
An alternative to Linkedin. Something way less spammy.
An ethical hotline - ethics experts answer questions related to ethics for fee per hour
Meal delivery in hospitals
A service that lets you annotate any video on the web
A tool to generate or relieve boredom when people need a mental boost
eBay for free stuff
A service for spam mailboxes, disposable email accounts for all your junkmail
An app to cheer you up when you're having a bad day
A tool that predicts flight delays
Currency calculator with on-the-fly conversion
Interview practice company - A company that will do mock interviews with you and give you feedback on your performance.
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
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.
A water bottle that rewards you for reusing it, refilling it and drinking more water.
Smart IOT devices for gardening
Real-time mentions of your startup from social & the web
Vacation rental management service
An app to help you better focus throughout the day
SMS reminders for TODOs
A place to play board games and eat/drink, like a coffee house, but where board games are the main focus.
Relaunch something like Homejoy
Ads on paper towels. Give out free paper towel rolls, each tab has some unique advertisement on it.
Nap stations throughout the city. To integrate it into our culture, we can introduce them through napping stations similar to coffee houses.
Search engine for K-12 students
Keyless entry using your phone
SMS alerts of news based on events within a 3 mile radius of you
A chat app for discussing divisive topics with strangers
An app to gently remind you of people worse off than you and why you should be grateful for being you.
A platform for professionals to donate their time/services to local charities
Job swap board for stay at home moms – I'll do your laundry if you do my grocery shopping.
Tool to generate simple placeholder logos
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.
Cell phone made of biodegradable materials
A gratitude app that teaches you to thank yourself for all the good you do for yourself and for others too.
Uber for auto-repair. Get a trusted mechanic sent to your home.
Neighborhood phone book
Themed newsletters - Daily, weekly or monthly newsletters themed at making you the best possible version of you that you can be
An online community where investors share investment ideas with each other
Uber for babysitters
Netflix for home exercise equipment. Swap out your ergometer for an elliptical and then swap that for a treadmill.
A service that allows restaurants to fill tables by varying prices to increase demand
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.
Interest free loans
Linkedin for challenged/disabled people
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.
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
Service that keeps inventory in a household (products, cleaning, etc.)
Cleanflix - a service that lets you automatically skip nudity on Netflix
Home delivery of pet food/snacks/toys on a set schedule
Marketplace for pre-owned high end clothing
Selfie drones. Cheap drones that you can attach your smartphone to, that will take the best possible selfie/group selfie.
Advertisement based captcha
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.
Chewing gum that is good for braces and dentures
Birthday gifts reminder app
A service that lets you Airbnb your backyard pool
Grocery delivery service for college campuses: Fresh direct for dorm rooms.
A tool to keep track of all your subscriptions
Virtual home interior decorator
ThatsAThing.com - tells you if things already exists
A water testing kit to see if your water has minerals and stuff in it and is making you sick
Hug Buddy - find a random person that is going through tough times to give them a hug and show emotional support
A service to let you create your own ice cream flavors
A memory training chrome extension - Every day a new memory training exercises will appears in your Chrome tabs for you to work through.
Marketplace for wedding vendors
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 app to help you read through web pages faster
A browser extension to show a summary at the top of any news article you are reading
An app to tell you exact wait times at restaurants nearby
Wearable device for assisting the visually challenged
A browser extension that monitors surfing behavior to let you know when you spend too much time on time wasting sites
Online shark-tank - pitch investors online
SMS donations for charities
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 to figure out how arrogant you are, what level is acceptable for your life/career path and how to improve that.
An app that lets you grab your favorite snips/clips from a movie to share them with friends
A tailored surprise subscription box. The user tells you their interests. You send them something awesome each month.
An app that asks if you should send an email or message before you send it (avoids being triggered by emotions etc.)
Train delay alerts by SMS
A gift recommendation engine that pulls products from Amazon
Prepackaged school supplies based on the lists from the school districts
A calorie counting app that gives advice to improve what you're doing based on the actions you’re taking
App to round up your spare change on purchases and donate it charity
A social network for doctors
An app to help you fall asleep
Service to get paid for reviewing products
SMS alerts for traffic nearby
A self praise app. Sometimes you need encouragement, use the applause app to get praise for your accomplishments from supporting peers
A marketplace for developers to sell their side projects
A company that digs your car out of the snow and removes snow from your driveway and starts car in the morning.
Privacy policy generator
Uber for dog walkers
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)
An app to quickly fact check arguments using high quality resources/sources if a point/argument has solid scientific backing
