🛠️ OPEN BUSINESS IDEAS 🛠️
Below a list of business/product ideas I had or read about.
They are worthless if they remain ideas and if you don't overcome the challenges in building them, so feel free to copy / tweak / implement them!
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A clock that displays the time it is @ProductHunt
Also displays what you should do and where you should post, at each specific time during your launch
A lot of awesome books are not available as audio.
Crowdfund the money to buy the audio rights + a voice actor
Based on the method by @taylorpearson https://t.co/a2fQodzeAs
Daily, weekly, quarterly questions to help you reevaluate what to do next
So you don't have to rely on a phone number for anything anymore
1 rule: Always Be Constructive
Monetize with private feeback or reviews from experts
Just insert an html tag in your template and your stripe keys, and your customers can buy all your ad space without your intervention
A list of different plants and their properties.
Heavily regulated, but will probably be legal in more and more places in the following decades. Start today to build tomorrow's leader (if it's legal where you operate)
A 5 lined summary of any article
Monetize with subscription, with the top shared articles
Probably already exists!
But you could start with a simple Typeform to book. Then on the backend just a spreadsheet of the top 50 photographers in your city, make and confirm all bookings manually by phone for starters.
Then automate your bottlenecks
A list of services where you pay in crypto and crypto only.
Add all competitors to Airbnb, Uber and other big tech companies
Automatically identify VIPs and big companies in your customer list so you can use them as social proof on your sales page.
Auto extract a nice profile picture for them or the logo of the company
Book a day pass in a gym near you (when travelling), with upfront pricing and no commitment
Make sure all links on your website are always valid
This exists for Wordpress as a plugin, make is for any CMS or website
A list of the most common food in a country.
Name in English, in local language, with photos and usual price
Import your YouTube and Spotify likes
Get a 1h+ DJ set recommandation, so you can have a good tune to focus without interruption
A chatbot that tells you if you need a visa to go to country X
Monetize with an affiliate link to book a plane ticket
Send anonymously a sweet note to someone via email / sms
The notes are manually reviewed to ensure they are lovely 😊, so charge for that
A telegram bot that sends you the % of the year that is already behind you
A checklist of all things you need to do and buy for your wedding.
Monetize by recommending trusted contractors.
There is CRAZY money spent in that space!
Send GPS coordinates and know if you can park your car or if you will get towed.
Because in the US it takes a PhD to understand, nothing is written on the ground!
A SaaS which automatically unsubscribes people that were sent X emails and never opened / never clicked
Commit to wake up before 5 am or you will be billed $20
(inspired by @levelsio's Go Fucking Do It)
Detect if a text contains spam, is offensive, or about US Politics
Create a remote company in 1 click.
Upfront pricing.
No surprise personal tax status for founders.
Zero tax avoidance, only peace of mind for bootstrappers
The best places worldwide to get your surgery done.
Maybe regulated, but crazy money in that space.
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https://t.co/ofIvL6SkAE
More from Makers
What are some things you should *NOT* do as an indie hacker?
I was recently on @ProductHunt Radio (https://t.co/IuSMrZTaYG) where @Abadesi asked me this question about all sorts of challenges that founders face.
Here are a few of my thoughts…
@Abadesi Don't blindly follow advice without considering the context in which the advice was given (from who, to who, when, for what) and adapting it to fit your personal situation.
E.g. advice that works for a high-growth VC-funded startup might be disastrous to your indie business.
@Abadesi (This applies to any and all advice in life, btw, not just advice for how to start and run a company. It's almost never a good time to turn off your brain and blindly follow what others are saying.)
@Abadesi Don't equate being a founder with being an inventor. It's an analogy that can easily go too far.
You'll end up overvaluing and over-protecting your pet ideas. Or worse, you'll never come up with an idea at all, because you'll assume that it needs to be something completely new.
I was recently on @ProductHunt Radio (https://t.co/IuSMrZTaYG) where @Abadesi asked me this question about all sorts of challenges that founders face.
Here are a few of my thoughts…
@Abadesi Don't blindly follow advice without considering the context in which the advice was given (from who, to who, when, for what) and adapting it to fit your personal situation.
E.g. advice that works for a high-growth VC-funded startup might be disastrous to your indie business.
@Abadesi (This applies to any and all advice in life, btw, not just advice for how to start and run a company. It's almost never a good time to turn off your brain and blindly follow what others are saying.)
@Abadesi Don't equate being a founder with being an inventor. It's an analogy that can easily go too far.
You'll end up overvaluing and over-protecting your pet ideas. Or worse, you'll never come up with an idea at all, because you'll assume that it needs to be something completely new.
#24hrstartup recap and analysis
What a weekend celebrating makers looks like.
A thread
👇Read on
Let's start with a crazy view of what @ProductHunt looked like on Sunday
Download image and upload
A top 7 with:
https://t.co/6gBjO6jXtB @Booligoosh
https://t.co/fwfKbQha57 @stephsmithio
https://t.co/LsSRNV9Jrf @anthilemoon
https://t.co/Fts7T8Un5M @J_Tabansi
Spotify Ctrl @shahroozme
https://t.co/37EoJAXEeG @kossnocorp
https://t.co/fMawYGlnro
If you want some top picks, see @deadcoder0904's thread,
We were going to have a go at doing this, but he nailed it.
It also comes with voting links 🖐so go do your
Over the following days the 24hr startup crew had more than their fair share of launches
Lots of variety: web, bots, extensions and even native apps
eg. @jordibruin with
What a weekend celebrating makers looks like.
A thread
👇Read on
Let's start with a crazy view of what @ProductHunt looked like on Sunday
Download image and upload
A top 7 with:
https://t.co/6gBjO6jXtB @Booligoosh
https://t.co/fwfKbQha57 @stephsmithio
https://t.co/LsSRNV9Jrf @anthilemoon
https://t.co/Fts7T8Un5M @J_Tabansi
Spotify Ctrl @shahroozme
https://t.co/37EoJAXEeG @kossnocorp
https://t.co/fMawYGlnro
If you want some top picks, see @deadcoder0904's thread,
We were going to have a go at doing this, but he nailed it.
It also comes with voting links 🖐so go do your
#24hrsstartup was an amazing event
— Akshay Kadam(A2K) \U0001f47b (@deadcoder0904) November 19, 2018
I never went to a hackathon but this just felt like one even though I was just watching \U0001f440
Everyone did great but there were a few startups that I personally loved \U0001f496
Some of my favorites are in the thread below\U0001f447
Over the following days the 24hr startup crew had more than their fair share of launches
Lots of variety: web, bots, extensions and even native apps
eg. @jordibruin with
\U0001f3a8\U0001f3c3\u200d\u2640\ufe0f DrawRun just launched on Product Hunt! Idea to App Store to Product Hunt in 68 hours!\u2070\u2070https://t.co/mxnLZ8FRSu
— Jordi Bruin (@jordibruin) November 20, 2018
Thanks for the motivation @thepatwalls @arminulrich @_feloidea
Making a thread of makers & entrepreneurs who inspired me, and what they taught me.
#thread
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Strong marketing game, super hard work, can stream for 24 hours and currently leading a new streamer movement with the #24hrstartup challenge.
Make it bigger than yourself.
👉 @thepatwalls
Made the awesome https://t.co/lBYn9nP3KJ which works perfectly and saved me hours and hours.
Make a simple, helpful product.
👉 @gvrizzo
Making the stylish @threader_app looking for maximum integration with Twitter (it might even become part of Twitter one day...)
Raise the bar for quality, look for seamless integrations.
👉 @marie_dm_ + @yesnoornext
Successfully monetized a tiny social network @wip without screwing his users, focusing on the maker community.
A small engaged community is enough.
👉 @marckohlbrugge
#thread
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Strong marketing game, super hard work, can stream for 24 hours and currently leading a new streamer movement with the #24hrstartup challenge.
Make it bigger than yourself.
👉 @thepatwalls
Made the awesome https://t.co/lBYn9nP3KJ which works perfectly and saved me hours and hours.
Make a simple, helpful product.
👉 @gvrizzo
Making the stylish @threader_app looking for maximum integration with Twitter (it might even become part of Twitter one day...)
Raise the bar for quality, look for seamless integrations.
👉 @marie_dm_ + @yesnoornext
Successfully monetized a tiny social network @wip without screwing his users, focusing on the maker community.
A small engaged community is enough.
👉 @marckohlbrugge
Joe Rogan's podcast is now is listened to 1.5+ billion times per year at around $50-100M/year revenue.
Independent and 100% owned by Joe, no networks, no middle men and a 100M+ people audience.
👏
https://t.co/RywAiBxA3s
Joe is the #1 / #2 podcast (depends per week) of all podcasts
120 million plays per month source https://t.co/k7L1LfDdcM
https://t.co/aGcYnVDpMu
Independent and 100% owned by Joe, no networks, no middle men and a 100M+ people audience.
👏
https://t.co/RywAiBxA3s
Joe is the #1 / #2 podcast (depends per week) of all podcasts
120 million plays per month source https://t.co/k7L1LfDdcM
https://t.co/aGcYnVDpMu
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1/OK, data mystery time.
This New York Times feature shows China with a Gini Index of less than 30, which would make it more equal than Canada, France, or the Netherlands. https://t.co/g3Sv6DZTDE
That's weird. Income inequality in China is legendary.
Let's check this number.
2/The New York Times cites the World Bank's recent report, "Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World".
The report is available here:
3/The World Bank report has a graph in which it appears to show the same value for China's Gini - under 0.3.
The graph cites the World Development Indicators as its source for the income inequality data.
4/The World Development Indicators are available at the World Bank's website.
Here's the Gini index: https://t.co/MvylQzpX6A
It looks as if the latest estimate for China's Gini is 42.2.
That estimate is from 2012.
5/A Gini of 42.2 would put China in the same neighborhood as the U.S., whose Gini was estimated at 41 in 2013.
I can't find the <30 number anywhere. The only other estimate in the tables for China is from 2008, when it was estimated at 42.8.
This New York Times feature shows China with a Gini Index of less than 30, which would make it more equal than Canada, France, or the Netherlands. https://t.co/g3Sv6DZTDE
That's weird. Income inequality in China is legendary.
Let's check this number.
2/The New York Times cites the World Bank's recent report, "Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World".
The report is available here:
3/The World Bank report has a graph in which it appears to show the same value for China's Gini - under 0.3.
The graph cites the World Development Indicators as its source for the income inequality data.
4/The World Development Indicators are available at the World Bank's website.
Here's the Gini index: https://t.co/MvylQzpX6A
It looks as if the latest estimate for China's Gini is 42.2.
That estimate is from 2012.
5/A Gini of 42.2 would put China in the same neighborhood as the U.S., whose Gini was estimated at 41 in 2013.
I can't find the <30 number anywhere. The only other estimate in the tables for China is from 2008, when it was estimated at 42.8.
