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Education & Learning

Screen-time blocker that makes you do Anki cards first

A screen timer app that presents Anki cards for learning whenever you open an app/website you want to limit your access to. So when you open Instagram, instead of a plain blocker, you’re given a Duolingo sort of UX to learn a set of cards…

Paras Chopra
Education & Learning

LLM interface for deeply understanding papers and repos

An AI/LLM interface specifically designed around understanding large, complex topics, projects or papers. e.g. you upload a paper or github repo link, and it patiently breaks it down component after component, zooming in and out, until you…

Paras Chopra
Hardware & DevicesLong-game

CCTV with semantic search and analytics

CCTV with built in semantic search and analytics. You should be able to put daily/weekly report requests in it (e.g. how many customers walked in), and do ad-hoc search (e.g. show everyone who went without buying).

Paras Chopra
Health & Fitness

AI daily check-in symptom tracker for chronic illness

Symptom tracker for chronic diseases. You do a daily checkin with AI, and it compiles everything you’re feeling in great detail so that the next time you see a doctor, you present an accurate record of symptoms and possible prognosis.

Paras Chopra
Fintech & InvestingLong-game

VC fund for expat Indians returning to build startups

VCs, steal this idea: A fund dedicated for expat Indians. Many want to start a company but their visas don’t allow. They have experience + network in the US. Help them relocate here, and fund their startups (Bonus: this helps 🇮🇳 India via…

Paras Chopra
Social & Community

LinkedIn alternative built on public Q&A with companies

A LinkedIn alternative where companies message you about your work, and you publish them with your answers Put semantic search on it, so that over them your *real* work gets discovered in terms of what companies actually want instead of…

Paras Chopra
Consumer Apps

Spotify for babies, with AI-generated sleep music

Startup idea of the day spotify but just for babies can even generate music with AI so you skip paying for music licenses here's why this could be $20M/year biz 836k parents search for baby music monthly science shows music impacts sleep…

GREG ISENBERG
Education & Learning

Turn top AI papers into interactive notebooks

Take top AI papers and automatically derive interactive visualizations / toy implementations of key ideas in an integrated notebook. Convert static papers into interactive python notebooks that readers can play along to understand the key…

Paras Chopra
Marketplaces & Services

Services for the micro-wedding trend

Inflation is killing the big 200+ person wedding. Who wants to blow $100,000 on a single day? New trend alert: Micro weddings (and 2 startup ideas worth taking) I got married recently. No hundred-person guest list. No fancy venue. Just 14…

GREG ISENBERG
Fintech & InvestingLong-game

Kelley Blue Book-style valuation guide for startups

Free $10M/year startup idea: Who's creating the Kelley Blue Book (KBB) for startups? KBB is the standard price guide for cars, raking in ~$230M in revenue/year. They make $$ via targeted ads, lead generation, dealer services, data…

GREG ISENBERG
Social & Community

"Chemistry" dating app: video call before any IRL date

Is this a good startup idea by @tferriss? A speed dating app that is all about getting you on a video call No IRL meetings until you see if you have chemistry via a FaceTime You call it The Chemistry™ app. Made for busy people. Charge…

GREG ISENBERG
B2B & SaaS

Team chat priced per message instead of per seat

Here’s a free billion-dollar startup idea for you... Reinvent Microsoft Teams or Slack. But, instead of charging $4-$8 per user, charge per message or per new channel. Enterprise messaging is a multi-billion dollar market, but it's broken…

GREG ISENBERG