192 Startup Ideas


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

  2. Smart IOT devices for gardening

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

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

  5. A service that lets you Airbnb your backyard pool

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

  7. Site to discover failed startup ideas

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

  9. 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.

  10. Uber for babysitters

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

  12. An app that makes mondays less awful

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

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

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

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

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

  18. Meal delivery in hospitals

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

  20. Chewing gum that is good for braces and dentures

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

  22. A tool to keep track of all your subscriptions

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

  24. SMS donations for charities

  25. 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.

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

  27. Pandora of news

  28. Advertisement based captcha

  29. Neighborhood phone book

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

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

  32. 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.

  33. Platform to discover emerging social media influencers

  34. A gift recommendation engine that pulls products from Amazon

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

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

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

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

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

  40. 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.

  41. Online shark-tank - pitch investors online

  42. Super local news

  43. Interest free loans

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

  45. A chat app for discussing divisive topics with strangers

  46. A habit tracker

  47. A tool that predicts flight delays

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

  49. A meditation app

  50. Self-destructing emails

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

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

  53. SMS reminders for TODOs

  54. Order fresh stuff from local farms

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

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

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

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

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

  60. Uber for caregivers

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

  62. Service to rent a personal assistant for the day

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

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

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

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

  67. Birthday gifts reminder app

  68. An app to help beat procrastination

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

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

  71. A platform for entrepreneurs to find co-founders

  72. Blockchain based lending platform

  73. 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.

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

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

  76. SMS alerts for last minute extremely cheap flight tickets

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

  78. 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.

  79. A social network for doctors

  80. An app to split the rent with roommates automatically

  81. Linkedin for challenged/disabled people

  82. 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.

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

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

  85. A social network for sharing film suggestions

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

  87. Travel agency that shows you dying civilizations

  88. 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

  89. Service to find a hiking buddy

  90. Virtual home interior decorator

  91. Wearable device for assisting the visually challenged

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  99. 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.

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

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

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

  103. Marketplace for wedding vendors

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

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

  106. Relaunching a service like Vine

  107. Weekly deliveries of fresh groceries from your local farms

  108. Coffee with nearby professionals

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  118. Self-destructing text messages

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

  120. Service to get paid for reviewing products

  121. Photography studio that casts you as characters from movies

  122. An app to help you fall asleep

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

  124. Vacation rental management service

  125. A service to browse live supermarket inventory

  126. 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.

  127. Keyless entry using your phone

  128. SMS alerts for traffic nearby

  129. Uber for dog walkers

  130. Site to discover startup ideas that were acquired

  131. An app to learn one super interesting fact everyday

  132. A directory of conferences, events and speakers

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

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

  135. Real world bookmarking app

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

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

  138. Uber for lawn care/yard work

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

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

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

  142. This or that comparison app

  143. Currency calculator with on-the-fly conversion

  144. Train delay alerts by SMS

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

  146. 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

  147. Cell phone made of biodegradable materials

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

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

  150. Marketplace for pre-owned high end clothing

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

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

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

  154. 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

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

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

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

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

  159. 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.

  160. Relaunch something like Homejoy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  169. 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)

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

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

  172. 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.

  173. Search engine for K-12 students

  174. An online marketplace for scientific experiments

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

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

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

  178. A platform for professionals to barter time and services

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

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

  181. A marketplace for developers to sell their side projects

  182. eBay for free stuff

  183. 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.

  184. Automated invoice collections for small businesses

  185. Chat with a random person about a current event

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

  187. Tool to generate simple placeholder logos

  188. Privacy policy generator

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

  190. Relaunching a service like StumbleUpon

  191. Search engine for reviews

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

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