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🛠️ 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!
👇

 Better: use one and make a MVP during the #24hrstartup challenge!
😻 Product Hunt Time
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
🚧 IndieCrunch - VC free tech news
Techcrunch but only for bootstrapped companies
🎧 Kickstarter for audiobooks
A lot of awesome books are not available as audio.
Crowdfund the money to buy the audio rights + a voice actor
💻 Flashcards to learn bash commands
Start as a paid Anki deck, or make your own app
💬 A telegram chatbot to plan 90 days sprints
Based on the method by @taylorpearson https://t.co/a2fQodzeAs
Daily, weekly, quarterly questions to help you reevaluate what to do next
📧 A phone number that only receives sms, and sends it to your email.
So you don't have to rely on a phone number for anything anymore
👋 Spank my product - Honest product feedback that sometimes stings.
1 rule: Always Be Constructive
Monetize with private feeback or reviews from experts
🤑 A framework for selling native ads on your site
Just insert an html tag in your template and your stripe keys, and your customers can buy all your ad space without your intervention
🌿 Weed list
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)
📖 TLDR this
A 5 lined summary of any article
Monetize with subscription, with the top shared articles
📸 Airbnb for photographs
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
💰 Fiverr, but pay only with crypto
💱 No fiat here
A list of services where you pay in crypto and crypto only.
Add all competitors to Airbnb, Uber and other big tech companies
🌟 VIP Spotter
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
🏋️ Where to lift
Book a day pass in a gym near you (when travelling), with upfront pricing and no commitment
😻 Product Swipe
@ProductHunt but with a swipe UX like Tinder
❌ Deadlink check as a service
Make sure all links on your website are always valid
This exists for Wordpress as a plugin, make is for any CMS or website
📚 Weekly PG
A weekly @paulg essay in your inbox
Or make it with your favorite blogger
🔎 SeeFood
A list of the most common food in a country.
Name in English, in local language, with photos and usual price
🎶 Dj Set me
Import your YouTube and Spotify likes
Get a 1h+ DJ set recommandation, so you can have a good tune to focus without interruption
💬 Visa Bot
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
🤗 Sweet note
Send anonymously a sweet note to someone via email / sms
The notes are manually reviewed to ensure they are lovely 😊, so charge for that
🥠 https://t.co/pdH63jkquM
Online, unique fortune cookies for $1
🧘 A meditation podcast
Each day, a new 20 minutes track
📊 @year_progress Telegram bot
A telegram bot that sends you the % of the year that is already behind you
👰 Wedding list
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!
🚘 Can I park here now ?
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!
🔓 Unsecure List
A list of services that still use SMS 2FA
💌 Mailing List Sanitizer
A SaaS which automatically unsubscribes people that were sent X emails and never opened / never clicked
📖 A laptop cover that is a book
So you literally open a book to open your MacBook
💸 Money never sleeps
Commit to wake up before 5 am or you will be billed $20
(inspired by @levelsio's Go Fucking Do It)
🤮 Toxic content detection as an API
Detect if a text contains spam, is offensive, or about US Politics
☢️ Inbox Total Zero
Archive all emails now and mark everything as read in one click
🔓 https://t.co/xIpHcyiaz0
A list of all services still using security questions in 2018.
🏦 Incorporate Me
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
🏥 Medical list
The best places worldwide to get your surgery done.
Maybe regulated, but crazy money in that space.
Lots of ideas from @thepatwalls and the https://t.co/upMXwM0uyD challengers here too
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https://t.co/ofIvL6SkAE

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Kitze @ 🇩🇪️...
@thekitze
To people who are under the impression that you can get rich quickly by working on an app, here are the stats for https://t.co/az8F12pf02

📈 ~12000 vistis
☑️ 109 transactions
💰 353€ profit (285 after tax)

I have spent 1.5 months on this app. You can make more $ in 2 days.

🤷‍♂️


I'm still happy that I launched a paid app bcs it involved extra work:

- backend for processing payments (+ permissions, webhooks, etc)
- integration with payment processor
- UI for license activation in Electron
- machine activation limit
- autoupdates
- mailgun emails

etc.

These things seemed super scary at first. I always thought it was way too much work and something would break. But I'm glad I persisted. So far the only problem I have is that mailgun is not delivering the license keys to certain domains like https://t.co/6Bqn0FUYXo etc. 👌

omg I just realized that me . com is an Apple domain, of course something wouldn't work with these dicks
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Xavier Coiffard
Xavier Coiffard
@AngeZanetti
Are you an entrepreneur / Indie Hacker looking for maker communities to join?

Here is a list of communities you possibly don't know about.

[Thread] 🧵

Bootstrapped:

It's a small community of bootstrappers, super friendly. Members make and sell desktop apps, SaaS products, and mobile apps.

Created by

MakerLog:

MakerLog is perfect if you want to build in public! It's a big community of 7000 members. Folks post their daily tasks and grow a network of supportive, like-minded people!

Created by @matteing

IndieWorldwide:

It's a community of 1000+ Indiehackers based on Slack, with weekly meetups and 1-to-1 founders meetings as well!
I LOVE meeting new IH every week!

Created by @AnthonyCastrio

Jetpack

It's a community of entrepreneurs, super focus on growth. You'll find some SaaS entrepreneurs, Content Creators, Brand Builders, and also some Agency Owners.

Created by
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Gleb Sabirzyanov
Gleb Sabirzyanov
@zyumbik
Don't look at deadlines negatively! They are a useful tool to measure your performance + stimulate you to do more. You can learn a lot from a single deadline. Did you work too little or too much? Was the goal too ambitious or easy? Apply lessons to the future work. 😉 #MyMindset


I wish I had this... — don't excuse yourself. Forget about what you can't and focus on what you can.
Stop comparing yourself to others, come from the point of what you have, know and have: "I can... so I will do..!" #MyMindset


BTW this was an update of one of the previous tweets. And I'm continuing this thread today!


Do something for the long-term. Everything else is a distraction. 🛑 Nowadays I always check if the thing I'm doing aligns with my long-term plans. If not — that is probably not the best thing to do at the moment. #MyMindset


The only way to get more done is to have less to do. Eliminate your obligations, say "no" to things that are not important, stay minimal in what you do, focus. Being busy is not equal to getting things done. #MyMindset
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Raman Shalupau
Raman Shalupau
@ksaitor
Maker movement is doing to startups what startups did to corporations.

Here is why 👇

Startups fixed the problem of innovation, that corporations lack.

In big, slow corporations, innovation is a RISK and distraction from the core $$$ profitable business.

Agile startups could launch, iterate fast and eventually stumble upon new growing market opportunities.

However,

When a startup reaches product-market-fit, it has to 🚀 "grow at all costs" and reach market dominance before some giant corporation can replicate their new product and distribute it to their existing giant customer base.

Startup's "growth at all costs" often means growth at the expense of charging customers $$$ money.

Hence, to be sustainable, startups have to constantly chase investor money.

Startup teams spend more time finding and pleasing investors, than finding and pleasing customers.

95% of startups die because they run out of (investor) money + no business model + crazy investor expectations.

Same way corporations die, when unable to adjust to new technology and market shifts.
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Pieter Levels \u2728
Pieter Levels ✨
@levelsio
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
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Jaya_Upadhyaya
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Once a goldsmith by the name of Narhari lived in Pandharpur. He excelled in his craft. He had vowed not to look at Pandurang or visit his mandir ever, as he was a Shiva Bhakt.
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Sarvaripati Shiva is one of the most fearsome manifestations of Mahadev. Assigned with destroying all of the universes at the end of time, Shiva is one of the most fearsome warriors. He is the Mrityunjaya.
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TRISHULA: the 3 pointed blades denote creation, maintenance, and destruction or the 3 Kalas – Past, Present and Future. They also represent 3 Gunas – Sattva, Rajas and Tamas).
Shiva’s trishul can only be stopped by Shiva himself.
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PARASHU: axe with 4 cutting edges which Shiva gave to Parashurama. In his anger, Parashurama used the parashu to get rid of the all the Earth’s tyrannical kshatriya caste twenty-one times over.
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CHANDRAHASA SWORD: The divine sword Chandrahasa literally means ‘the laughter of the moon’. Ravana gave this sword to Indrajit on different occasions especially to fight against Devas.
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