19 startups that might just change the world... or not 🥵
My big list of startup ideas, each with built-in marketing tactics - 100% free to be taken
Hey friends!
I’m on my honeymoon right now.
To celebrate my first week off in a long time, here is a special edition I’ve scheduled in advance: 19 startup ideas, each with a unique marketing twist. Feel free to steal them, but honestly, they're just for fun.
😳 Confidence boosting Zoom plugin: A Zoom extension that makes everyone naked with AI when you're presenting something. Massive PR for free.
🏋🏻♀️ Airbnb for home gyms: A service that connects you with neighbors who have home gym setups. No gym memberships, just workout spaces right next door.
🎵 B2B music streaming app: Office music democracy! Employees suggest, upvote,
and payto hear their song pick in the entire office.🔮 Mystery dinner delivery: A service delivering surprise meals from local restaurants. The twist? 1 out of 10 deliveries is a jackpot, worth 10x the price you paid, that comes with a collectible & shareable golden ticket (Wonka style).
🎧 Podcast *episode* recommendations: There are so many podcast recommendation lists and apps, but the quality of each episode varies greatly. This app knows what you love and recommends specific episodes of podcasts.
📚 Crowdsourced novel writing: Users collectively write a novel, one line at a time, voted on by the community. Only the most popular lines make it to the final story (with credits). Each line is written within a 24-hour voting window. People will invite their friends to vote for their lines.
👨🏻🍳 Twitch for chefs: A live streaming platform where chefs cook in real-time, allowing viewers to follow along, ask questions, and even request dishes.
⭐️ B2B influencer marketplace: Connects businesses with industry influencers for targeted marketing. It’s surprisingly difficult to find legit thought leaders (that may collab in a paid campaign) in B2B niche industries these days.
🎤 Karaoke matchmaking app: Connect with people based on your karaoke song choices, and meet offline to sing together. My neighbors would love that :(
🛗 Elevator pitch screens… in office building elevators! Install screens in the elevators of office buildings with tech companies & VCs, that display the elevator pitches of startups on every ride. Premium: Pay more to appear more. Ultra premium: Target specific executives in the building based on their ride-time patterns.
🚛 Silent garbage trucks for streets where residents are willing to pay more: No need to explain.
🎁 Branded fitness challenges: A fitness app where users join brand-sponsored fitness challenges. Completing challenges earns users discounts or rewards from the sponsoring brand. Easy win-win-win.
🚀 Tinder for side hustles: A networking app for finding or offering tiny side gigs based on skills. Micro-entrepreneurship through a swipe-based interface. Quick jobs for easy $$$. This is my #1 startup idea on this list.
🚁 Workout motivation drone: A personal workout drone with speakers that captures epic shots and offers motivation/coaching during outdoor workouts. Collab with famous trainers to have their signature exercises in the drone.
💬 Conversation starter app: Users tell the app who they’re meeting with —> the app scrapes the web for data —> users get smart & personalized things to say. The catch: Pay $2.99 post-meeting or the app exposes you for using it (I mean… the app knows who you met & how to reach them 🙃).
🗃️ Earth archive: Like Web Archive, but for the real world. Experience it with the Apple Vision Pro.
🚲 Free ride-sharing bikes (in return for becoming an ad): A network of bikes for urban areas, where each ride is free if the rider agrees to carry advertisement banners on their back. It looks like a backpack cover with an ad printed on top.
🌌 Dream interpreter AI: How come we don’t have this yet? An AI app that interprets your dreams based on descriptions or voice recordings.
🧺 Uber for laundry: On-demand laundry service where users can have their laundry picked up, cleaned, and delivered back to their doorstep (by other regular people, not businesses).
See you next week with a fresh marketing idea ✌️
Tom
P.S. In case you missed them, here are some of the most loved marketing ideas:
I would totally watch Twitch for cooking. I loved that period of the pandemic where everyone was posting their own personal cooking show on Instagram.
Airbnb home gym neighbour link could actually work ! Has someone not done this yet ?