With this recession and unemployment so high, there’s likely a lot of people looking to start their own business. Hopefully one of these ideas of mine can provide some inspiration to just one of those people.
I’m formerly a TechCrunch writer, a serial web entrepreneur, and an idea guy. I can’t believe I’ve posted 100+ web start-up business ideas in the past couple years. Below is a compilation of them. They are all for the taking and if they aren’t perfect, hopefully they give you some ideas of your own. If you’ve seen any of these implemented, please post in the comments as I’d love to check them out. And if you know other ‘idea’ websites, please post in the comments for others to visit.
- Startup Idea #128: The Graffiti Wall
- Startup Idea #127: Spotted
- IDEA #126: Marketplace for Doing Good
- IDEA #125: Get Free Products by trying services/products
- IDEA #124: Infobar Search Results based on user’s search que …
- IDEA #123: Twitter of just Commerce (bought, selling, auctio …
- IDEA #122: Weird & Cool Stuff For Sale on eBay
- IDEA #121: Video Dating Website
- IDEA #120: Pay-it-Forward Restaurant Coupons
- IDEA #119: Crowd-sourced Room/Landscape/House Designs
- IDEA #118: Cars should aggregate reported problems
- IDEA #117: Garage Sale App/site (crowd-sourced photos of wha …
- IDEA #116: Short (135 character) Answers/Facts that display …
- IDEA #115: Constantly Revolving Deal Site (train station “fl …
- IDEA #114: Museum Crowd-Sourced-Curation App
- IDEA #113: Fake Interview Videos (Funny Site)
- IDEA #112: Facebook App for eBay
- IDEA #111: Daily Profile Woot or Groupon for Friends
- IDEA #110: Technology Museum
- IDEA #109: HotOrNot for Interests
- IDEA #108: Today In My History
- IDEA #107: Expected Future News Stories
- IDEA #106: Give Friends Awards
- IDEA #105: Fakebook – Fake fun of your friends!
- IDEAS #104: Turntable features and revenues
- IDEA #103 (I want!): Streaming radio of future concerts in m …
- IDEAs #102: Twilio ideas brainstorm: SMS, Voice, API
- IDEAs #101: FourSquare API Ideas
- IDEA #100 – Twitter License Plate social network
- IDEA #99 – Group Learning of Anything in Weeks!
- IDEA #98 – Live Music Concert Tracking
- IDEA #97 – Tagging All Photos with people, places, objects
- IDEA #96 – Agent Intermediary between Celebrities & Web Startups
- IDEA #95 – URL Filter for filtering Adult websites using Google SafeSearch
- IDEA #94 – Dear WTF (aka “Dear Abby for Techies”)
- IDEA #93 – 125×125 Ad-ditional Info Skins (IntermediAds)
- IDEA #92 – Virtual BarCamp (meeting of tech minds)
- IDEA #91 – Captchavertising (”captcha advertising”)
- IDEA #90 – Footer Ads in Email
- IDEA #89 – Clouds in the Sky
- IDEA #88 – Rent Your Twitter Background & Avatar
- IDEA #87 – Plugin to Sync Listening of a Song with Friends
- IDEA #86 – Mint.com but for Health & Fitness
- IDEA #85 – Must See. Must Hear. Must Read. Must DO!
- IDEA #84 – Reskin The Web
- IDEA #83 – Digg for Twitter!
- IDEA #82 – FriendFeed the new Twitter? WTF.
- IDEA #81 – iPhone Photo Plus [iPhone SDK application]
- IDEA #80 – “Techmeme” Monthly Printed Magazine
- IDEA #79 – You Scratch My Back, I’ll Scratch Yours
- IDEA #78 – iTunes Search Engine
- IDEA #77 – Social Search Engine (take on Google)
- IDEA #76 – The Greatest Menu Meals (fb app initially)
- IDEA #75 – Where I Hang Out (facebook app)
- IDEA #74 – FMail (Facebook App)
- IDEA #73 – Friends Categorized as API to other Facebook Apps
- IDEA #72 – Digg for Facebook Photos
- IDEA #71 – User-Gen Opinionated Videos, Photos, or Text (Facebook App)
- IDEA #70 – Voting for Video Stars (Facebook App)
- IDEA #69 – Get Users Pulling Info From Others (Facebook App)
- IDEA #68 – Instructing Users to Collectively Participate (Facebook)
- IDEA #67 – Desktop/Mobile IM Client for Facebook
- IDEA #66 – Polls on Current News (Facebook App)
- IDEA #65 – Universal Login that verifies/ties your Digg, MySpace, FB, etc Accounts together
- IDEA #64 – AuctionAds copycat using Affiliate Product DB or just Amazon.com’s Product DB
- IDEA #63 – Become the next Michael Arrington
- IDEA #62 – Reincarnate Yub.com, but on Facebook
- IDEA #61 – Music Affiliate JavaScript Blog Include
- IDEA #60 – Video Search from the Audio
- IDEA #59 – Music News and Concert Dates for your Favorite Bands
- IDEA #58 – Politics: Who Should You Vote For?
- IDEA #57A – Social Networking via your RSS subscriptions
- IDEA #57 – RSS Reader Influenced By Your Peers
- IDEA #56 – Web Hosting Company using Amazon S3
- IDEA #55 – Flickr photo editing and printing software
- IDEA #54 – The Food Made Me Sick
- IDEA #53 – Everyone Gets Sick
- IDEA #52 – Search Revenues Benefit Charities
- IDEA #51 – Email via Snail Mail, for free!
- IDEA #50 – Fantasy Sport League Widgets
- IDEA #49 – Buy Music, Help Charities
- IDEA #48A – Printed Volumes Of Your Online Reading
- IDEA #48 – Personalized Printed Magazines and Catalogs
- IDEA #47 – Video Trains and Tracking
- IDEA #46 – Who Do You Vouch For?
- IDEA #45 – Social Connections Search Engine
- IDEA #44 – Everyone’s An Expert
- IDEA #43 – Everyone Has Neighbors
- IDEA #42 – Audio Ads Network Provider
- IDEA #41- Digg based on Your Friends and Network
- IDEA #40 cont’d – The Marketing Ideas
- IDEA #40 cont’d – Differentiate, Get Users, Then Revenues
- IDEA #40 cont’d – Primary Functionality Specifications
- IDEA #40 cont’d – The Functionality Launch “Essentials”
- IDEA #40 cont’d – All Functionality and Features Outlined
- IDEA #40 – Capturing Your View on Everything (events, topics, websites, businesses, products)
- IDEA #39 – Aggregated Event Photos/Videos (everyone’s views)
- IDEA #38 – Invest in a Music Band! Fantasy Music Stock Game
- IDEA #37 – Viral Anonymous Positive Comment Network
- IDEA #36 – Social Audio / Video Recommendations
- IDEA #35 – In-Store, On-Product, More Information Call / Text
- IDEA #34 – Apartments For Rent (Auto-Updated Weekly)
- IDEA #33 – Motel Pricing and Availability by Phone
- IDEA #32 – Online Video Embed Code Piggy-Backing
- IDEA #31 – Stock Market Social Media Tracker
- IDEA #30 – People Meter – Who’s Who Of The World 500 Ranking List
- IDEA #29 – Your Comments on Any Webpage
- IDEA #28 – Fan-submitted Music Video Ideas
- IDEA #27 – Lunch/Dinner/Bar Specials – Updated Daily
- IDEA #26C – Job Postings – Details by Voicemail Message
- IDEA #26B – Auto Details and Photos to your Cell
- IDEA #26A – For Rent/Sale – View Info & Photos Instantly
- IDEA #25 – Blogroll Advertising Network
- IDEA #24 – Our Overlapping Website Viewing Habits
- IDEA #23 – Your Syndicated Chronological Life
- IDEA #22 – Amazon.com Social Networking
- IDEA #21 – Remynders.com
- IDEA #20 – Finding the Employee Leak
- IDEA #19 – Bookmarks as Image Screenshots
- IDEA #18 – Custom Music/Sports T-Shirts
- IDEA #17 – Audio Chatting by Phone
- IDEA #16 – What’s Going On Tonight
- IDEA #15 – Ads on Websites Replaced
- IDEA #14 – Ads with Personal Endorsements (filtered ad network)
- IDEA #13 – I Got Drunk Last Night
- IDEA #12 – E-Cards with Your Voice (and bonus ideas)
- IDEA #11 – Classifieds by Cell – The Long Tail of Used Goods that has yet to Emerge
- IDEA #10 – In-Person Social Networking – Event/Bar Mingling via Cell
- IDEA #9 additions – Online Videos Archived For Life
- IDEA #9 – Pay-Per-Play Videos (PPPV): The YouTube Differentiator
- IDEA #8 – Anonymous Email Address to Your Cell
- IDEA #7 – Video Comments Plugin for Blogs
- IDEA #6 additions – LikeLoveOrHate.com (adds user compatibility ratings; dating / event capabilities)
- IDEA #6 – LikeLoveOrHate.com (a HotOrNot for interests — products, fads, movies, music, etc)
- IDEA #5 – Video & Audio Ratings of Transactions (Businesses/Products/People)
- IDEA #4 – The MySpace Killer? Proximity Social Networking
- IDEA #3 – ShareMy.net (”share my internet”)
- IDEA #2 – Print-On-Demand Books at Airports
- IDEA #1 – Multiple callers-to-text transcription software
- All My Web Ideas, are all Yours
Here are some other related posts I’ve written for you budding entrepreneurs:
- Repeat after me, I will not do another startup as a non-tech …
- The little startup that couldn’t (a postmortem of MyFavorite …
- Startup Homeruns
- I Found Lucky: Kanye West telling his journey to catching a …
- Evaluating Startup Ideas
- How to Startup! (not being a programmer)
- Start-up Roadmap?
- Some Startup Tips from MyBlogLog founders
- Getting Lucky takes Perseverance: I Found Lucky
My other posts about start-ups, inspiration, etc, can be found here.