A collection of most of my undeveloped business ideas. This is a living document.
- Folding laptop stand
- High quality operating system and laptop to compete with Mac
- Administrative area Google map
- Unbreakable glass water bottle
- Non-technical friendly email server setup
- Non-technical friendly guides for terminal
- Browser plugin for taking notes as you read
- Remake Sim Coaster or Theme Hospital as a browser game
- Bike sharing where people can lend their bikes to other people
- Minecraft plugin pack for filming videos
- High performance GoLang content management system
- Ceiling lighting tiles for even and easy to look at lighting
- Frozen fresh coconut water to extend lifetime
- Cheap, disposable parachutes for drone delivery services
- Revamped Waiter.com with pictures and nutrition information
- Floating solar networks - save water, no need to clear areas of land
- Super glue that doesn’t dry out
- App shows you pics of your fav. foods to reduce temptation
- Smoothie recipe youtube channel
- Healthy smoothie store (not fake like Jamba or something)
- Premium business cards that actually fit in your wallet
- Learning system where topics are introduced as very small pieces, reddit-style
- Programming language guide, help to choose between the many
- Image recognition for skin infections/ conditions
- Device to test for certain proteins in foods to identify allergens
- Market soylent as camping food
- Use Startup Weekend’s free hosting to do Fiverr gigs
- Warning text when you enter a bad part of town
- Logo database containing high quality transparent PNGs and SVGs of logos
- Disposable paper bottles
- Recreate Age of Empires 2 in the browser
- http://eloquentjavascript.net type guide for GoLang
- Minecraft server where players are given one week to build, 2 teams, fight with Flans
- Repackage Highmaps counties and sell on Themeforest
- Roommate rank where you can rank crappy roommates
- Noise cancelling device you can place anywhere and cancels outside noise
- Tape that is sticky enough to hold stuff to wall, but not rip off paint
- Create Mac desktop app for playing music from online sources
- Create a website with much more beginner friendly details on how to make sourdough than existing sights
- Glass water bottle suspended in some sort of a suspension membrane such as glass water bottle enclosed in a water filled plastic one
- Automatic sourdough starter feeder
- Juicer that uses a centrifuge
- Audio transmitter and receiver for headphones to turn wired headphones into wireless ones
- Website for college students to rank their residences
- Reverse osmosis in household kitchens
- UV and visible light LEDs to disinfect areas while unoccupied
- Speed sensors along highway to create a travel time API
- Laser tag with smartphones (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/07/hasbro-reinvents-lazer-tag-for-the-smartphone-generation/)
- king crab
- better cheap toilrt paper
- Large plane that releases smaller quadcopters for delivery
- Drones for window cleaning
- Teach programming to kids (camp or school program)
- Ecommerce site like eBay or Banggood, but provide North American customer service and have group shipping (for faster and cheaper rates)
- Travel site that recommends stuff based off questions
- Compare software engineer’s solutions by recording (filming) their actions
- Cookbook that teaches lessons but provides good food from the beginning
- Reduced pressure cooking to cook at lower temperatures
- Painting robot that uses machine learning to determine stroke pressure, brush type
- Easy to use mesh network hardware
- Stories about people with unusual careers
- Home Bread oven that you put inside your existing oven. Provides a higher amount of steam than dutch oven or pan with water
- Scanning with phone to cnc
- Google docs markdown - ease of markdown but with collaboration features like multiple editors and comments
- Structure from motion for visual slam
- Ultimate cooking device that controls humidity and temperature perfectly at extremely large range of temperatures
- Editor plugin to visualize code
- Keyboard cover for mac with extra click
- Full engineering curricullum online
- Heater that uses piping to separate dust from air
- Practical science driven cookbook
- Display information as a zoomable tree
- Automatic sourdough feeder that uses the sourdough’s carbon dioxide to power the mechanism
- Open source library and software review website (like capterra.com)
- Bread recipe social network like thefreshloaf.com but with a structured way to share recipes and pictures
- Global flour producer with consistent quality (most companies are limited to a single country)
- Keep track of bread fermentation status (possible with CO2 monitoring)
- Robotic arm that mimics plating
- Restaurant that watches customers every movement and reaction to provide waiters with real time actions
- Recycling is broken, too expensive, too hard to separate contaminated trash. Ontario
- Brainwash career focused people by providing free pdfs of books online but then subtly changing the text to introduce other motives
- Plan trips for high school grads trying to figure out what they want to do next - videos of interesting people and provide tours with those people
- Series about business opportunities that I won’t be pursuing
- Recipe website that you promote to youtubers for sharing their recipes
- Solve lactose intolerance - people like milk products, but many asians can’t handle it
- No BS business strategy advice - no stupid charts
- Construct graphs based on communications over Slack - find high performers
- Weed sports - https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/marijuana-washington-post-frederick-starr-chicago-1905-marihuana-mariahuana.html
- Sell spice jar to bulk barn with their reuse program
- Vertically integrated cabinet/countertop manufacturer that integrates with floorplan apps and 3d scanning
- Teaching kids with old people
- War on scented liquid soaps and shampoos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20389654
- Bread subscription
- Fuck Cargill - supplies food to McDonalds, Safeway, Walmart, Peapod, Stop & Shop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20443472
- Fluid dynamics sink website - willitsink.com, Sell sink to home depot, People choose their faucet and basin, Runs the simulation for them and lets them know if they’re a good match
- Training course for enterprising foodies - farmers market distribution - “Samples and food demos sell”
- Stories and videos for dandelion chocolate to show their process
- Cbd and shroom products for ultra rich
- Trauma control might be a mental replay problem - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-brain-uses-a-not-so-instant-replay-to-make-decisions/
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