💰 Free Startup Ideas from Tech Twitter
Quibi for financial literacy, 5 dating app ideas, and 1 idea from Balaji he'll give you $1000 BTC to build today
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When starting a company, it’s usually best to use your experiences, passions, and insights to come up with your own ideas. That said, not everyone is an ✨idea guy✨
Below is a small collection of startup ideas and frameworks for generating ideas from Tech Twitter over the last few months.
💡 Ideas
I’m offering $1000 in BTC for a good open source app to export from Twitter. It should:
- take in a Twitter API key
- download all followers
- rank by some criteria
- send each a DM with specified message (eg link to Substack) up to daily DM limits
More details below.
Free startup idea: A buy-online-and-install-it-yourself speed camera system you can place in your yard / neighborhood. Takes photos of plates if 20%/10mph speed limit, auto issues ticket based off DMV record.
Aaron W. Gordon @A_W_Gordon
The clothing basics site Organics Basics is experimenting with a Low Impact Website. It doesn't load unnecessary images, limits light emitted by the screen, minimizes power consumption, etc.
Startup idea: service that enables this concept. h/t @purrmin
Request for Startup:
A bookmark app that auto-triggers to save when I take a screenshot.
My phone’s camera roll is full of interesting sites, stories, tweets, Reddit posts, etc. that I always come back to.
Request for Startup:
An online dollar store for both products and services.
(A mix between Fiverr and Wish)
Request for Startups:
5/ Stock markets for ideas & things, or 21st century polling company.
Erik Torenberg @eriktorenberg
Requests for Startups:
4/ DATING apps:
a/ Experiment w/ new data sources (e.g. Goodreads, Spotify)
b/ Experiment w/ new social mechanics (e.g audio, video)
c/ Use games. Ex: OMGPop (h/t @msg)
d/ HQ Trivia for dating (h/t @benrbn)
e/ Matchmaking:
Erik Torenberg @eriktorenberg
Requests for Startups:
1/ Twitter for Money, or Social Network for Receipts.
Can autogenerate group chats around receipts.
Can create user profiles that express identity based on what people purchase (e.g. support this artist, donate to charity, etc)
Erik Torenberg @eriktorenberg
Requests for Startups:
2/ Twitter meets Quora:
Erik Torenberg @eriktorenberg
💬 People will focus more on async
Startup Idea:
Build a slack killer focusing async discussions (pattern mix of forum, pull requests and google docs) but also allow sync-chat for where it's useful (eg watercooler, emergencies).
But hurry @twistappteam and @Threads are fast.
RFS - a chrome plugin that shows LinkedIn profiles of the PMs and designers who work on each feature on the website you're visiting.
Let's see who is brave enough to ship dark patterns then 😈
Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan
And my personal favorite 😜
$100M idea:
Regional paper- and office-supply distributor with an emphasis on servicing small-business clients. Main corporate office in NYC and branches in Scranton, Albany, Utica, Akron, Nashua, Buffalo and Rochester.
🏗 Frameworks
There are only two ways to start a business - bundling or unbundling. Dave’s tweet below goes without saying that there are STILL billion dollar businesses to be built around unbundling Facebook.
Greg always shares great frameworks for social. Here are some from this past month.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug
- Bring back Path
- Bring back Turntable.FM
- Bring back Rdio
- Bring back Sunrise
It's worth listening to these people to understand what they really are asking for
Building "the anti-product" is often a successful way to build compelling products
How do you build the:
- The anti-Instagram
- The anti-YouTube
- The anti-Amazon
- The anti-Netflix
- etc
You'll be surprised with what you come up with
🙏 Thanks
Have fun building!
