What’s a startup idea you had but you never built it
Or might build in the future
I’ll go first. Mine was a high quality alcohol delivery service. But I later realised how difficult it is to pull it off due to regulation.
BevMo is a huge company in the US doing the same
I want to build a SaaS platform for knowledge management. With all the developments in LLM space, it is very much required. As an estimate, in many big corporates 20-30% information just goes missing in documents.
donna
Stealth
a year ago
I was thinking of a Pet Insurance startup. Like how Acko is focusing on Insurance for cars, Jobsurance for layoffs.
A marketplace similar to PolicyBazaar. I feel there’s a huge potential here because in my own friend circle 5 people have adopted dogs in last one year.
Vet bills are costly as fuck. My dog had parvo and it costed me ₹25,000 for three days of treatment.
Huge potential if done right. Content marketing karenge Ditto jaisa toh set hai.
donna
Stealth
a year ago
Also, a lot of people would say that everyone does it. Yes, they do, but there’s little to no focus on it. Exclusive company for Pet Insurance would be massive.
Ahh! Pets are definitely going to be huge in India. Their health insurance could be interesting - but I think all the models get messed up as they live a much shorter life than humans
See more comments
ED, Hairloss, Diabetes an end to end platform which is not a scam. I still believe there is a big business one can make out of it, while doing some good.
all the https://www.forhims.com/ copycats of India are doing a bad job at it.
Last minute (tatkal) flight bookings for off seasons or utilisation of unbooked seats at a discounted price
A website or app where unemployed Indians can earn a little money by doing image annotation and other labelling work to train AI. Tech companies that need training data for ML would be the customer.
BingoMadAngles
Stealth
a year ago
Not labelling work but, check intents mobi, you can upload photos of your location and make money
There are startups that provide these services. It would be good to crowdsource these.
However, speaking as someone who has firsthand experience dealing with folks who did this- this would be very difficult to solve since there needs to be thorough SOPs or training to ensure quality. Otherwise, one would be left cleaning up low quality crowdsourced data
See more comments
Sports management firm where we recruit and train talent in exchange for representation rights in the future
Huge need - but prolly really hard to pull off without existing credibility/contacts in the sports world
Going to do it once I have built something meaningful capital to deploy on my own. Really hard to pull off but wouldn't be fun if it was a trivial problem to solve.
See more comments
Few years back in college I was a little disturbed and worried by hearing frequent news of Eve teasing, chain snatching, people getting beaten up in dark alleys, etc.
Wanted to make a Google map kinda application where priority is safest route instead of shortest route.
Wow epic idea. There’s a crime map for every city in the US - this could be something very similar for India
Yeahh. The hard part is curating the right kind of data. I think for this app to work we’d need street wise crime records which could tell us which locations are the most dangerous based on the time of the day and things nearby(market, police station, temple, etc). Now governments also don’t want to record to show less crime under their jurisdiction. I went through the open source government datasets but didn’t find anything useful. One can raise a request for a particular type of dataset, didn’t get around trying that.
See more comments
Geminiman
Stealth
a year ago
Not startup but ai feet pictures in only fans.
In a hackathon during college time we came up with the idea of Airbnb for parking spaces, (idea was it'll utilise vacant private parking spaces, some kind of p2p sharing invoo) had put together a website but never really did physical labour to make it real.
This has high potential. Particularly in cities like Bangalore and Mumbai.
donna
Stealth
a year ago
Bro, honestly, this can be huge. A lot of high-end societies have parking space free for most of the day. It’d be great if you can pull this off, specifically need in almost all metro cities.
See more comments
GV_influenzer
Student
a year ago
Bunch of small digital billboards for outdoor advertising.
Problems :
Insane regulations and billboards in general are controlled by goons and politicians who have influence over local nagar palika.
Bribery to the government. Officials are a must for your show to continue and it's not small numbers they ask for insane bribery that exceeds the cost of my digital billboards itself.
Well regardless of all that if AR or XR became a thing widely adopted by masses then it's already a dead industry.
I’ve been thinking about it. A bootstrapped business can do really well. A digital billboard in blr tech park goes on rent for 50k/m. Your ad is displayed for 6/7 hrs in that month.
See more comments
KitN_X
Student
a year ago
SaaS company for restaurants, menu management to billings, kinda like what ExploreX (didn't know about it then) does with social media where restaurants can see what others are doing and find suppliers.
KitN_X
Student
a year ago
Currently thinking about doing something like this but for education institutions.
See more comments
LukewarmRegards
Stealth
a year ago
AtoZ e-waste management. Pitched this at an IIM for a competition, went knee deep in research. Huge on the B2B AND B2C end of things (just look around you at all the e-waste lying in an average Indian household) Initially capital intensive, but the market is a gold mine (literally since motherboards have tons of silicon and gold and platinum for conductivity)
Agree - imagine the amount of waste India will generate in the next 10 years! It’s a gold mine and eventually a cash guzzler. But also a huge cash consumer initially.
Need to invest deeply to grow to scale and unit economics.
I've been reading and learning a lot about retro tech and e-waste, this could be big. Can you share your findings or Idea pitch ?
See more comments
Not a startup idea but a weekend project.
A WhatsApp bot to give user referrals for a particular company
Problem
People looking out for a job often get lost trying to search for someone who can refer them.
Solution
A bot which filters out data from linked/twitter and shows it to the user
Not particularly WhatsApp bot but any platform bot would do. Also if someone’s interested let’s build it. Would help a lot of people in current mass layoff situation.
Doesn’t make sense. I will want to give referrals only to folks I really know.
If you think of it referral system came into existence because company wanted more and more employees like their current one. Gamifying it more just reduces the quality of hires. Which in turn will kill referral as a hiring channel
See more comments
LazyNinja
Stealth
a year ago
We (I and a couple more friends) wanted to build an app for medicine delivery back in ~2011.
We couldn't pursue it because we wanted to continue our jobs and all 3 of us lacked marketing & sales skills.
LazyNinja
Stealth
a year ago
The same group also thought of building an app for bridging the gap/ digitising the parents and teachers interaction at schools around ~2013
Again did not pursue, similar reasons.
There's this thing called the Unified Health Interface (UHI) - think of it as ONDC but for healthcare. Each patient has a Unique Health ID (called ABHA) so they can view literally all of their medical documents from all their doctors, hospitals and labs in one place. Obviously, you can build many more features on top of this, but we were working on this idea. Never came to fruition
This would be a goldmine for insurers. The downside of this will be that Indian healthcare may gradually look like that in USA and would be inaccessible to the average person without health insurance.
stupidusername
Stealth
a year ago
Let know if you need any help. I was tech volunteer for ABDM
Zomato for salon - I have a tough time choosing salon for any new service or new location I’m in.
sall
Stealth
a year ago
Reviews on Google Map?
Indusplateau
Stealth
a year ago
Calendly for drivers or Namma yatri for drivers , I keep seeing airport taxi drivers sharing their numbers with cusotmer to call them directly for city or intercity rides instead of app.
App has added location advantages. The fact is I don’t want to negotiate while booking. Show me a price, I pay. I rarely want to interact.
I think something like calendly for booking slot will not really scale
Indusplateau
Stealth
a year ago
The above app will do the same and provide you same features as app but drivers can avoid 30% cuts. This app should acts like Saas for drivers.
Ideal driver persona : drivers who own their own cars
Ideal user : people who prefer same driver for their needs due to their reliable driving, safety and security
See more comments
Discover More
Curated from across
