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