Idea: Find a roommate
An online platform to simplify searching a roommate, something similar to a specialized social network. It would be easier to have such a service than looking for the people on local forums or asking friends.

Idea: Coming soon page generator
For people who want to quickly validate an idea: the app generates a coming soon page from an Excel document. You can choose a logo, a favicon, varied text options + font, how many page sections you need (pricing, about us, etc.).
It also generate an email sign-up form, so when someone put its email, you will know (emails will be stored in a cloud storage where only you have an access to view).
The process looks as following:
1. You write an Excel document where put the necessary coming soon page configuration.
2. The app generates a page based on your config, shows you a preview.
3. Get a coming soon page code.

Problem: I spend more time than needed to add events to my calendar.
I use Google Calendar as a reference for all my appointments and bookings. When I have a new appointment, I open the calendar app, pick a date, and fill out the necessary info. It takes more time than needed for such a simple thing. And when such an action has friction, I sometimes don't want to add that to a calendar. Creating a reminder is simpler.

Potential solution: a bot in the messenger one uses the most that will manage events in Google Calendar more simpler. For example, one may write just "Therapist 15.06 3pm". There may be various formats of commands. The primary goal is to make adding events faster.

Idea: Cloud video transformation
Many companies build their own solutions to work with videos. For instance, encoding, decoding, cutting, making previews and so on. For a company which goal isn't providing such functionality, it's resource consuming to make its own solutions to work with video.

The idea is to provide video transformations functionality as API in a cloud. Thus, I can easily, for example, cut a video file, then reduce its size in one or two API calls instead of spending a huge amount of time implementing this myself.

Monetization: users pay for an API call. Or tiers for a specific amount of calls per day, week, or month.

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: App marketplace
A platform that distributes mobile apps, PWAs. Unlike Apple and Google Play, it doesn't take a registration fee. The problem it solves is providing people a new place in the game on a monopolized market.

⁠Trend: Cannabidiol industry
The global cannabidiol market was valued at USD 4.6 billion in 2018 and is anticipated to witness a lucrative CAGR of 22.2% over the forecast period. The demand for cannabidiol (CBD) for medical and wellness purposes is high due to its healing properties, which is the key factor driving the growth of the market. Moreover, growing product adoption and utilization owing to government approvals is a major factor anticipated to drive the demand for cannabidiol infused products.

Useful links: CDB market size

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💡Idea: a network-to-earn web3 platform.

Wait, it’s already done! HUMANS lets you discover jobs in web3 and get paid for recommending a friend on position.

❉ See jobs on our website;
❉ Scan your network for a perfect candidate;
❉ Recommend your friend or yourself for a job;
❉ Get a reward after successful hiring.
👉 [give it a try]

Idea: Hover and learn
A browser extension that randomly replaces some words on websites to be the words in the language you learn.

You can hover on the unfamiliar word and see a translation, pronunciation, songs containing this word, a few movie clips with it and other usage of the word in different contexts.
Example.

This helps by allowing users to browse the web and learn more effortlessly. Anyway they should do a mental effort to learn and you can determine how they'll do it. For example, add the hovered words to a vocabulary and show them to repeat and learn (spaced repetition).

"What's a problem or inconvenience you have that you could do better? Not 100% better, but even like 5-10% can be an advantage. You don't have to invent the next big thing, starting a business on a niche product that is incrementally better than everything else is enough to change your life.

Marketplaces like Amazon/Etsy are making more money for Amazon/Etsy than they are making you. Services businesses can be good, but there's always going to be a cap on earnings tied to your time. I'd recommend starting a business around either a knowledge product - use something like gumroad to build an online course on ANYTHING (whatever you're good at) and then market the audience - or a physical product that's a little better."

From the "The type of business you want to start" post on Reddit.

I'm introducing a new channel for problems.

I created Startup Ideas channel to share ideas that can be implemented as a business. However, ideas are only worth attention to look at the different industries or products from a different angle. You can't build a solution(business) if you don't know the root cause of why such a business may exist. One should understand the problem to begin helping people(e.g., building an app, an agency, providing freelance services, etc.).
Ideas are worthless. The implementation depends on how well one understands how to help others eliminate the problem.

I plan to share real-world problems in the new channel from various domains. Some of them will be mine or from the Internet. The others will be yours.

P.S. the more us there, the more problems we can share(I'll do a survey so everybody has an opportunity to share one's problems and see the others).

A playbook to give a clear vision of what comes naturally to you and help you take that first step to never needing to stay at a job again.

Some excerpts from there:

> start your career where your childhood left off. find what you're naturally good at and what you want to help other people with.

> look for the right things in life. find out what gives you energy but keeps you at peace at the same time. try to get everything within you aligned and wanting one specific thing.

> find an online community that you can connect with authentically to uplift

- we're in the connection economy now. it doesn't have to be huge, but they have to be growing, relatable, and passionate about a topic.

- look for common problems that keep coming up. at this point they're aware of the problem, they just need a solution from someone they trust.

- give them a sense of belonging. if they don't have an identity, create one.

- take a stand with the community and empathize with them. challenge what's current and define what's next.

- your goals should align with the audience. don't just profit off of them, let them benefit from your wins. if they help grow your brand, they should be rewarded for it.

- discord started in r/LoL. pipeline.gg started in r/streamers. grailed marketplace started in r/malefashionadvice.

customer experience is the most important metric
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💡Idea: Developer digest
A website or a newsletter that collects the last day/week best articles, links, new good newsletters for developers.
I spend some time going to multiple websites to get the latest information such as articles about some technology, what's interesting in new releases, what new interesting Github repositories appeared, the top posts on HackerNews.
All of this takes time to filter and read. It'd great to have one place where only the best articles appeared.

Idea: Linkedin Time Capsule
A way to look at a company's employees at any date in the past that you specify.
Would be an incredible tool for builders to understand org structure evolution.

Idea: Boxing at home (subscription)
A subscription model where you get a punching bag, gloves, unlimited content on how to train correctly, coaches, software/hardware that shows you how good was your training today.
Examples:
- FightCamp
- Peloton which isn't about boxing, but the business model is interesting.

Key takeaways of the YC’s Essential Startup Advice article.

- Launch as soon as possible. The earlier you understand customers needs, the better.
- Don't think about scaling yet. Do things that don't scale.
- Build only core features that do 90% of the work.
- Don't get distracted. The main things you should be doing in an early-stage company is to talk to users and write code.
- Do less, but do that better. Focus on acute problems the customers have.
- Don't try to solve all the problems your company has at the beginning. Every company has it, even those with $1B valuation. The points is: it's OK to have problems. Solve the important ones.
- Don't worry about competition yet.
- Stay sane and take breaks.

idea: Twitter catalog
Problem: it's difficult for new people on Twitter to find interesting people to follow. There is a search, but how do they know what keywords to use?

Possible solution: a browser extension or an app that shows you interesting people based on your preferences: location, a domain(about what a person posts), an average tweets per day, total tweets number, an average number of likes/retweets/comments per tweet, etc.

Idea: Life tracker
An app that has all you need: to-do lists, note-taking, it shows bank accounts and balances, total spending/earning, it stores your backups for smartphones, PCs, laptops; it stores your passwords and credentials, all the media you created is stored in one place, so you don't need to fear all the data will be lost. All the data in the app should be encrypted. The app could also have such features as:
- contact reminder: it reminds you when to call your relatives, friends;
- tests to check your mental health state periodically;
- storing your medical tests and related information, so you don't need to search for them in your house or on the web archives of various clinics;
- proposing you courses that will fit you; and movies, music, books; it also keeps track of the materials you watched, read to enhance the recommendations, and to you to have a history to add notes to the data;

Idea: VR practice for medical personnel
A platform that provides an environment to practice skills for doctors, nurses in virtual reality together. Thus, they can enhance their knowledge before going to hospitals. Also, it's great to do so virtually and together. It's not only for practice but for lecture sessions or even conferences where people not only tell but show something in VR for many people.

Idea: Online chat game
Problem: it may be hard to express yourself in real life. You dress special clothing, choose events to attend, meet people.

Possible solution: a game world aimed to gather people to talk. Like the VR chat. But with a more open world and possibilities. You can customize your avatar, a house. There is an open world where you stroll, meet people, talk to them. You can invite them to your customized place to spend time. The world allows you to customize places to have different activities. For example, play table games, build something together, play hide-and-seek, etc.