Some links you might find useful this ~week:
- Costs to develop and maintain apps like Uber, etc. (my note: the main costs are for the scalability. I.e., handling 5 users when you're SaaS is free, but handling 100k in real time is a different kind of pricing. Another thing is supporting the software - so, wages for the devs)
- Billions being spent in metaverse land grab (my note: think about VR-related ideas. The technology becomes better every year. We can even move some parts of our life there: think of virtual desktop setup, advanced gaming experience, software like house design, etc.)
- 11 places where you can find a startup mentor
- Reddit is an amazing place to find early users for free (my note: true)
- A guy who created a landing page generator sold it for $800k, here's the interview (my note: I monitored his growth for a while, the product is great)
- $0 - $20K in 2 months, here's tactics that worked
- AMA: I Built 6 Startups in 6 Months, Sold One, Tripled My Revenue Goal
- Books every solopreneur should read

Idea: Instant clinic
A place where a person may find all the available doctors in the city sorted by time, ratings, location, clinic, etc.
There are such approx. similar websites. But I'm not sure they're the place where I can find a doctor in 2km near me to make an appointment in 2 hours.
Ideally, it's a single place of "truth" for information regarding doctors and clinics in the city. So the clinics are interested to be added to the platform, to provide up-to-date information.

The platform may charge a fee(for a clinic) for every appointment. Or, charge a fixed sum of money to be listed on the website.

Idea: a community engine

A website engine/template that allow businesses/persons/communities to create a place for their community: useful resources, articles, a place for the discussion, and other related features.

If I were to start a community, I would ponder for a while what technology I should use to create a website, a messaging channel, a newsletter maybe? So why not having a template for all of that? For example, this solution would provide a ready-made website for the community's searchability in search engines, a Discord/Slack/Telegram/etc. platform template for discussions, a service to run newsletters, and other features that this community may have.

Currently, there are many things to consider when running a community: a technology for a website, a lot of resources to read on how to run the comm. in Discord/etc., how to take payments, etc.

Idea: Niche website templates collection
A website that collects various templates to design a website. Yet they're all niche-categorized. There are many collections like this. The difference is in a narrowing these designs categories down.
For example, <any framework> templates, Wordpress themes, or even Wordpress themes for personal blog about developing an online agency.
People need more customized designs.

Idea: A collection of tools for Shopify(replace with any other thing)
A website that collects useful tools for Shopify or any other popular (or not yet) platform. Help the community discover a place where they can find the right tools or articles and ask questions.
Why? There is always a ton of information everywhere, and gathering it all together is time-consuming. So, why not become a trustful resource that people could begin at?
Monetization: ads or sponsorships.

Idea: Live portraits
A tool that takes a collection of photos and makes videos with the people moving, looking, smiling there. As a reference, recall Hogwarts' portraits. There are such tools, but they lack better quality and don't allow uploading a collection of photos to make a video or many videos at once.

Recent links you may find useful:
- Do you even need social media posts and ads to boost sales?
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- How are most self-made millionaires under 25 made?
- I’m 18 years old and have 4,600 in cash, what would be the smartest thing to do with this?
- Built A Successful Skincare Brand And Left To Start A $4,5K/Month Copywriting Agency
- New type of Restaurant Idea
- State of small businesses in 2022 - how is yours doing?
- $950 dollars in recurring monthly profits created from 100 hours of cold calling
- Anybody have tips on getting your first customers for a software?
- The painkiller/vitamin analogy, myth or fact?

Idea: Remember yourself
An app that randomly sends you a notification every week to take a photo within 60 seconds. The app compiles your photos into a collage.

Hey, I am Ajeet, a fresher software developer.

My idea is:
A platform to ask, answer and connect with the people in locality.

Problem Statement :-
1. It's always difficult to adjust in new city, as everything is new and unknown to you, and google can't answer your smallest queries.

2. Most of the social platforms connect people irrespective of their location, and the people can only connect virtually, which is always a limited interaction.

3. Meeting like minded people in same locality, is always tough. Due to which, people are becoming more isolated, and social media centric for virtual interactions.

Some situations, when we move to new city :-
1. Finding it difficult to find people to play your favourite game, like basketball, football etc.
2. Want to get suggestions for places to explore.
3. Lacking opportunities to connect with new peoples.
4. Want to explore the city, yet no plans for the weekend.

Solutions :-
1. Ask people in your locality, interested people will show up in comment, and dm them for your further plans.

2. Share your question, Asking about good places to visit, and also if someone is interested to accompany you. Then, connect with interested people in the app itself.

3. Ask, what you want to know. Answer, what you already knows. Connect with people who matches your interest.

4. Join the community hosted events and trips to meet new people and make impactful connections.

Challenges to be faced while working on this idea :--
1. Building credibility infront of other person, before meeting in person.
2. Getting high number of people from specific localities for good performance of the app.
3. Hosting offline community events in different localities.

If someone is interested to contribute to this project, dm me at @IamAjeet2

Idea: A courses builder
An app to build interactive courses you want to distribute. To eliminate difficulties and time working on a set of various tools. I.e. design, texts, video, and audio recording.

And a related idea: a courses platform
This is a distribution channel for courses, so one won't bother about marketing any course. If it's valuable, the platform will sell it. It's something like Gumroad and other 1000 similar platforms, but in this case it should actually promote/sell the content to the target audience.
But it's a lot more complicated. You need to attract course authors(relatively easy, e.g., use existing courses and ask authors if you can distribute on your platform) and also you need to attract more users, which is way more difficult.

Landing page generator

Some time ago, I tried making landing page templates to assemble a simple landing page for my product quickly. But as you may know, making templates can take a while if you want various colors, buttons, and blocks.

I want to show you what I'm currently working on. It's a tool for creating landing pages. Why? Whenever I want to set up a simple page for my product or services, it takes a while. So either I code it myself, or I use some website builder and learn how to use it.

Both options are time-consuming(the 2nd one may be faster, though). Ideally, I want to press a button and see, for example, 20 various templates to choose the best. Then, I can adjust font, colors, and other minor details if necessary.
Currently, the tool generates the Hero sections only. More sections are to be added.

See visual examples here. What are your struggles if you have a landing page or created one before?

Idea: Article to Instagram image
Many people use Instagram as an additional or main source in their marketing. It turns out the process isn't convenient because it's time-consuming to convert useful information into images. You should google for the right image dimensions for Instagram, then design those, fit huge amounts of info there. What if we had a tool for that?
You put information there and the tool converts it to the images that can be posted on Instagram. A few clicks instead of a few hours for someone.

Idea: Food by subscription
A subscription-based service that delivers locally-sourced, pre-made meals to customers' homes. The service could work with local farms and businesses to source ingredients and prepare the meals, and customers could choose from a variety of meal plans to fit their dietary needs and preferences.

Drop a niche name in the comments, I'll reply with some ideas for it. For example, 3d printing, website builders, travel. The more specific you're, the better.

Idea: VR office
A virtual reality platform for remote team collaboration and communication. The platform could allow teams to meet and work together in virtual environments, with features like shared whiteboards, document sharing, and real-time audio and video communication.

Idea: a location-specific peer-to-peer services
A platform that connects people with local service providers, such as plumbers, electricians, and handymen. The platform could allow customers to easily find and book services, and it could also provide tools and resources for service providers to manage their schedules and communicate with customers.

💡How Did Revolut Co-Founder Come Up With an Idea?

A question that is popping up in my mind recently is whether it is crucial to be an expert in a field you wanna start a business/startup. Does the whole thing about building companies come down to this one simple thing: having an X amount of years of expertise, recognizing the "pains" and executing the solution appropriately?

There is a second part to the issue being young people without that much experience don't have the so-called "curse of knowledge" bias so they can come up with fresh and bold ideas without giving too much thought if that can actually work. I have a great example to prove this thesis.

How did the idea of Revolut come about? In one of the interviews, the co-founder Nikolay Storonsky told a story about the origin of Revolut. 💬

He was a stock market broker at Lehman Brothers 🏦 so he was pretty close to the financial sector so to speak. He was irritated by the number of fees that banks were cutting from each client's transaction. He thought to himself what if existed an international user-friendly bank with 0% commissions and fees.

In order to make the idea happen, he gathered a team and consulted one of the best financial advisors in banking and transaction topics. After a couple of hours of intense conversation, the advisor said that it is impossible to create such a bank (pretty ironic, huh?).

Storonsky didn't give up, instead, he “bought this guy out” for a couple of days in order to get insights about transaction policies, walkarounds, etc. in the banking sector. They gathered all the necessary infos and started brainstorming potential solutions. It took them 3 weeks to come up with one which seemed to meet all the legal criteria. They called up the advisor guy again, laid out all the cards - showed him what they have come up with and whether they are not missing anything.

🤯 He was stunned and said, "yes, that should work”.

He was stunned not because the idea was brilliant, but because he couldn’t see the solution they came up with without having years of experience. 💼

It turns out, sometimes to come up with something disruptive you gotta distance yourself from the expertise, gather information, and build the actual thing.

I believe, it is a great example of human creative spirit. No matter how regulated a certain industry is, it is possible to create value there. Obviously, you have to be somewhat familiar with the industry (Storonsky was a broker after all), not necessarily be an expert already.

Dream, build, spread. 🚀

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#FoodForThought

Idea: Be better, bitch
A mobile app that uses gamification to help users develop healthy habits and reach their goals, such as exercising more or eating healthier.

What's everyone is working on currently? Share in the comments.
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Here's Gabriel who wants to understand the problems that current ideators / founders face(it's hard to start, right? Or, get to be heard? Or, connect with like-minded peers or investors). He wants to build a social network specifically for folks like us. Let's help him in this survey.

Idea: a location-specific animal walkers and sitters app
A service that connects pet owners with local dog walkers and pet sitters, making it easier for pet owners to find reliable and trustworthy care for their pets.