192 Startup Ideas


  1. SMS alerts for traffic nearby

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

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

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

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

  6. 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.

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

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

  9. An app to split the rent with roommates automatically

  10. A social network for sharing film suggestions

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

  12. Relaunch something like Homejoy

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

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

  15. A tool that predicts flight delays

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

  17. A gift recommendation engine that pulls products from Amazon

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

  19. Coffee with nearby professionals

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

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

  22. eBay for free stuff

  23. 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

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

  25. A tool to keep track of all your subscriptions

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

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

  28. Blockchain based lending platform

  29. Train delay alerts by SMS

  30. An app that makes mondays less awful

  31. Super local news

  32. Site to discover startup ideas that were acquired

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

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

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

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

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

  38. 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.

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

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

  41. 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.

  42. Service to find a hiking buddy

  43. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  51. Wearable device for assisting the visually challenged

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

  53. Marketplace for wedding vendors

  54. 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.

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

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

  57. Real world bookmarking app

  58. Online shark-tank - pitch investors online

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

  60. Virtual home interior decorator

  61. 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

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

  63. Keyless entry using your phone

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

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

  66. Chewing gum that is good for braces and dentures

  67. Advertisement based captcha

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

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

  70. 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.

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

  72. Uber for caregivers

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

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

  75. A platform for entrepreneurs to find co-founders

  76. 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.

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

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

  79. Relaunching a service like StumbleUpon

  80. Self-destructing text messages

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

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

  83. Privacy policy generator

  84. Automated invoice collections for small businesses

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

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

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

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

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

  90. A chat app for discussing divisive topics with strangers

  91. 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.

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

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

  94. SMS alerts for last minute extremely cheap flight tickets

  95. Order fresh stuff from local farms

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

  97. Currency calculator with on-the-fly conversion

  98. Marketplace for pre-owned high end clothing

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

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

  101. Interest free loans

  102. An app to learn one super interesting fact everyday

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

  104. Pandora of news

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

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

  107. Chat with a random person about a current event

  108. Neighborhood phone book

  109. This or that comparison app

  110. Linkedin for challenged/disabled people

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

  112. Photography studio that casts you as characters from movies

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

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

  115. SMS reminders for TODOs

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

  117. A social network for doctors

  118. Uber for lawn care/yard work

  119. Platform to discover emerging social media influencers

  120. A marketplace for developers to sell their side projects

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

  122. Uber for dog walkers

  123. Birthday gifts reminder app

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

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

  127. An online marketplace for scientific experiments

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

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

  130. 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.

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

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

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

  134. An app to help beat procrastination

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

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

  137. Search engine for reviews

  138. Self-destructing emails

  139. A service to browse live supermarket inventory

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

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

  142. Uber for babysitters

  143. Meal delivery in hospitals

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

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

  146. Site to discover failed startup ideas

  147. Vacation rental management service

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

  149. Smart IOT devices for gardening

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

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

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

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

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

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

  156. Relaunching a service like Vine

  157. Travel agency that shows you dying civilizations

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

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

  160. Service to get paid for reviewing products

  161. Service to rent a personal assistant for the day

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

  163. Weekly deliveries of fresh groceries from your local farms

  164. An app to help you fall asleep

  165. Cell phone made of biodegradable materials

  166. Search engine for K-12 students

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

  168. Tool to generate simple placeholder logos

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

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

  171. A service that lets you Airbnb your backyard pool

  172. A directory of conferences, events and speakers

  173. 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)

  174. A habit tracker

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

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

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

  178. SMS donations for charities

  179. 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.

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

  181. 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

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

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

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

  185. A platform for professionals to barter time and services

  186. A meditation app

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

  188. 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.

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

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

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

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

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