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Opportunities, Not Just Business Ideas
Big Startup Ideas is a database of startup business ideas designed to inspire entrepreneurs. Our AI-powered app finds practical problems in online data, paying attention to pain points that consumers and businesses are likely to invest in solving. Then it generates business ideas to target them. Lucho (a Ph.D. guy) remains in the loop to improve it.
See a handful of examples below, but don't pass on the opportunity to explore all ideas in our database or a carefully selected batch of recent ideas in our eBook.
The Book of Big Startup Ideas
Prefer an ebook? Would you like to support our work? Our series of PDF books present real-world problems and business ideas to tackle each of them, carefully selected from our database.
Startup and Business Ideas
Here are a few examples of startup and business ideas from our database. The wide range of problems to tackle calls for a broad spectrum of ideas. They might be for a local business, or be online business ideas. Some are small business ideas, while others might have the potential to become billion dollar business ideas (please, read more about this under FAQ).
Breakfast in a Box
👉 Hotel visitors are advised to bring their preferred breakfast foods and skip hotels that impose surcharges to ensure a pleasant stay.
💡 A subscription-based service that delivers a box of breakfast food items to your hotel before your arrival, eliminating the need to bring your own breakfast foods. The box includes a selection of cereals, pastries, fruit, and coffee/tea. The service partners with hotels to ensure seamless delivery upon check-in.
FluCare Connect
👉 Individuals in Massachusetts face long wait times for doctor appointments during cold and flu season due to a shortage of primary care physicians, with fewer than 120,000 family medicine doctors available.
💡 FluCare Connect is a mobile app that provides virtual consultations with primary care physicians to residents in Massachusetts during cold and flu season, reducing wait times and increasing access to healthcare. Users can schedule appointments, receive prescriptions, and access health resources.
EcoSeat Exchange
👉 Consumers are misled by visually appealing online furniture that is poorly made, leading to dissatisfaction and financial loss as products like $1,200 Instagram sofas are discarded within two years due to inferior construction.
💡 EcoSeat Exchange is a platform connecting eco-conscious consumers with sustainable furniture manufacturers for hassle-free trade-ins of old sofas for new, durable, and environmentally friendly alternatives. Customers benefit from cost-effective upgrades while reducing waste.
Fresh Fare Express
👉 Rural towns in the U.S., like those in Nebraska and Kansas, face significant challenges due to the closure of grocery stores, with many counties having no grocery stores, impacting access to fresh food.
💡 Fresh Fare Express is a mobile grocery delivery service catering to rural towns in the U.S. like those in Nebraska and Kansas, providing fresh produce and essential groceries directly to customers' doorsteps on a scheduled basis. Customers can place orders through an easy-to-use app or website, ensuring convenient access to healthy food options.
Wind Turbine Material Recycling
👉 The wind industry is grappling with the technical challenges of recycling remaining materials from turbines and permanent magnets used in modern turbines.
💡 Offer a service for wind turbine operators to collect and recycle remaining materials from decommissioned turbines, including permanent magnets. The service will handle the logistics and provide a sustainable solution for recycling these materials.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any more questions that aren't addressed here. You can also chat with me about any of the ideas on Telegram.
Big Startup Ideas is a database of startup business ideas designed to inspire entrepreneurs. We use our AI-powered software to find opportunities in online data and generate these ideas, as opposed to traditional 'startup idea generators', which just generate ideas without any basis in actual data.
Lucho (a Ph.D. guy with years of experience in innovation and tech research, and the sole developer at Big Startup Ideas) codes the software, curates the AI findings and explores different approaches that improve idea creation. He regularly does research consulting with startups, other tech companies and some enterprise clients.
Big Startup Ideas is intended for entrepreneurs, but existing business owners and angel investors can also use it to stay current on emerging trends, for example.
Using the database of Big Startup Ideas currently has no cost. Our eBook with carefully selected business startup ideas is available for purchase from our online store.
The AI generates ideas for new consumer and business products or services. These ideas are created to solve specific business problems identified in the data or to capitalize on discovered opportunities.
Yes! In fact, every idea is for you. This is the thing: the AI-identified problems are specific to cities or countries, but they might also be a problem where you live. So, they may inspire you to start a similar business in your own location.
Big Startup Ideas is not a chatbot, but rather a database of business ideas that can be browsed and searched. Our AI software generates the ideas and gathers the necessary information for this.
On the other hand, ChatGPT isn't a database–it's a chatbot that responds to your queries. It doesn't search the web unless you ask it to, and it doesn't do so systematically. It also lacks the instructions we've been developing for extracting opportunities and other similar tasks. This is half of the problem.
The remainder is figuring out how to convert clean and valuable data (i.e., data on a specific problem that people or businesses face) into consistently meaningful ideas. ChatGPT's outputs are not consistent unless correctly instructed. We have control over those instructions here.
Finally, there is the presentation aspect: building a browsable and searchable database of current ideas, as well as AI-generated illustrations and other features we are developing.
You've likely heard the adage that ideas lack value without effective execution. From this perspective, these ideas may appear as mere 'ideas.' Furthermore, some of them might be unfeasible or non-profitable. However, the app leverages real economic, business, and market data to generate ideas, ensuring they are grounded and target a specific problem someone faces.
We believe that's a good starting point to inspire you, but you may want to consider other factors too when vetting ideas (see, for example, How to get startup ideas by Jared Friedman).
If you decide to pursue any of them, you will almost certainly need to carry out additional research. You should read the Terms of Use too. This service is experimental and is offered 'as is' and the ideas are for informational purposes only.
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