192 Startup Ideas


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

  2. 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.

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

  4. Order fresh stuff from local farms

  5. eBay for free stuff

  6. Site to discover startup ideas that were acquired

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

  8. SMS reminders for TODOs

  9. Self-destructing text messages

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

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

  12. Marketplace for wedding vendors

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

  14. 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.

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

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

  17. Travel agency that shows you dying civilizations

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

  19. A chat app for discussing divisive topics with strangers

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

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

  22. 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.

  23. Self-destructing emails

  24. 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

  25. A gift recommendation engine that pulls products from Amazon

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

  27. SMS alerts for traffic nearby

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

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

  30. 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.

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

  32. Interest free loans

  33. 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.

  34. Photography studio that casts you as characters from movies

  35. A habit tracker

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

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

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

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

  40. Cell phone made of biodegradable materials

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

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

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

  44. Super local news

  45. This or that comparison app

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

  47. A platform for professionals to barter time and services

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

  49. Smart IOT devices for gardening

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

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

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

  53. Coffee with nearby professionals

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

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

  56. Automated invoice collections for small businesses

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

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

  59. An app to learn one super interesting fact everyday

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

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

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

  63. 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

  64. Relaunching a service like StumbleUpon

  65. An app that makes mondays less awful

  66. Wearable device for assisting the visually challenged

  67. 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

  68. Uber for babysitters

  69. SMS donations for charities

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

  71. SMS alerts for last minute extremely cheap flight tickets

  72. Pandora of news

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

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

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

  76. A social network for sharing film suggestions

  77. Currency calculator with on-the-fly conversion

  78. Advertisement based captcha

  79. Linkedin for challenged/disabled people

  80. Search engine for K-12 students

  81. Chewing gum that is good for braces and dentures

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

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

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

  85. Platform to discover emerging social media influencers

  86. Uber for dog walkers

  87. Site to discover failed startup ideas

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

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

  90. Service to find a hiking buddy

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

  92. Marketplace for pre-owned high end clothing

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

  94. Tool to generate simple placeholder logos

  95. 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)

  96. Weekly deliveries of fresh groceries from your local farms

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

  98. A social network for doctors

  99. A meditation app

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

  101. Search engine for reviews

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

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

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

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

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

  107. An app to split the rent with roommates automatically

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

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

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

  111. A service to browse live supermarket inventory

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

  113. Chat with a random person about a current event

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

  115. A tool that predicts flight delays

  116. Service to rent a personal assistant for the day

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

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

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

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

  121. 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.

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

  123. 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.

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

  125. Vacation rental management service

  126. Birthday gifts reminder app

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

  128. 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.

  129. Meal delivery in hospitals

  130. Privacy policy generator

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

  132. 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.

  133. An app to help beat procrastination

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

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

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

  137. A service that lets you Airbnb your backyard pool

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  146. A marketplace for developers to sell their side projects

  147. An app to help you fall asleep

  148. 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.

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

  150. A platform for entrepreneurs to find co-founders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  158. 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.

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

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

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

  162. Relaunch something like Homejoy

  163. 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.

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

  165. A tool to keep track of all your subscriptions

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

  167. Uber for lawn care/yard work

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

  169. Virtual home interior decorator

  170. Uber for caregivers

  171. An online marketplace for scientific experiments

  172. Online shark-tank - pitch investors online

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

  174. Train delay alerts by SMS

  175. A directory of conferences, events and speakers

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

  177. Blockchain based lending platform

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

  179. Keyless entry using your phone

  180. Real world bookmarking app

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

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

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

  184. Service to get paid for reviewing products

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

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

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

  188. Relaunching a service like Vine

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

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

  191. Neighborhood phone book

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

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