Best Startup Idea Contest by Zeroqode 🏆

Problem: You're up at 1am with a brilliant idea and you need feedback/validation before investing time and effort into something potentially nobody wants.

Solution: You use the IdeaZap bot on Facebook Messenger to pitch your idea to a community of entrepreneurs, and receive instant votes and feedback.

Not only that, but you can pitch your idea to people who are subscribed to specific topics (ex. Web Design), validating your idea via potential end users.

Idea: Startup news, events and related content in 80 words or lesser

Concept: A successful entrepreneur is one who effectively manages time. Spending a lot of time to stay updated on latest happenings in the startup world is common.
The idea is to build an app like Inshorts but solely for startup news.
Each story will be presented with an image, headline and the information presented in under 80 words. Swipe up to change stories and swipe left to read the article from the original source.

The app is focused at entrepreneurs, founders, VCs, CXOs and startup enthusiasts

Problem: You're out of ideas for your next startup and need some inspiration

Solution: Use your current startup to launch a competition where others submit their ideas => PROFIT 💰😄

Idea: Adblock for live TV.

Problem: TV ads are loud and annoying.

Solution: An app that runs in the background of your Android TV to detect ads playing in realtime. Once detected it replaces ads with better content (e.g. short music videos or podcast snippets).

Example: Watch the NFL game as normal. During each adbreak the app temporarily connects you to a live voice-chat room with other fans watching the same thing... A brief and friendly discussion occurs.

Tagline: Make your Smart TV commercial-free.

Hi. I'm just here to steal these ideas and profit.

Ideia: the inverse of the current stores! Instead of looking for what you want, you simply make a post of the product you want to buy, say its conditions, for example: blue sofa, for 4 people, that delivered in my house Saturday afternoon, up to $ 300. And receive several proposals from qualified sellers with your request.

How to make money with that? Selling automated messages and notifications to sellers :)

edit: I made the design last year! https://www.behance.net/gallery/56262157/Website-Startup-Beezi

Idea: A platform to hire a personal shopper who will do your online shopping
Concept: Whenever I'm looking to buy something online, I waste a lot of time scrolling through the results, ending up overspending or not buying anything at all.

With this platform, people will be able to hire a personal shopper and tell them their requirements following which the personal shopper will manually search and present 3 options for you to buy, based on your requirement.

Hey all, i know we promised to announce the winner by end of Jan, but we need a few more days to do that. Please bear with us. I will post the results here soon. Thanks!

Problem: Small businesses that operate in the legal industry are forced to purchase a full case management platform to capture client information.

Solution: A monthly subscription to cloud based intake forms the small businesses can subscribe to. They'll get access to pre-built custom intake forms or create one themselves. Going to start in the legal industry, that's what I'm most familiar with, then expand to other industry that require client or patient info gathering.

Problem- Students and staff at high schools are looking for ways to provide real-world experience through project-based learning that motivates stakeholders and prepares them for the future.

Solution- A tool where students and faculty can suggest potential courses, projects, and learning opportunities to build up a want or a need in order to create and facilitate curriculum based on passion and interest. Prefered opportunities rise to the top and can be discussed in order to facilitate a way to make them a reality.

Concept- Schools get a product hunt-esque platform to suggest a course or learning opportunity to be voted upon by participants. This would also act as a first step in the curriculum development, professional development, and real-world learning in the classroom. By gauging interest early on, a school has the ability to pair motivated students with capable faculty and start creating applicable learning opportunities for people to participate in.

Scale-
Once basic functioning is created and tested, you can scale the functionality to allow mentors to create common classrooms, curriculum, and assessments to be consumed and validated and that can be placed on the high school transcript as extended learning opportunities that have the potential to diversify students from their applicant pools in their respective future endeavors.

Problem: There are customers on the internet that don't want businesses to succeed. They actively work against businesses to try to make them fail. These people are known as trolls.

Solution: Have a way for businesses to rate customers! Track via email/name/username/phone number/address combination and rate customer based on past transactions. Cross reference information from any business that signs up. Name it something catchy like custometer.com or rottencustomers.com or something like that. Then, via an API integration, you can automatically mark amazing customers (or flag potential troublemakers) in your system.

My idea is based on the current situation in my country, it's an African country. The way information(news, jobs,ads) is done is using newspapers mostly, but most young people have smartphones and don't usually buy newspapers so meaning they don't have access to the information they would like to have like job advertisements, the app is to build a mobile app that collects news, discount coupons, ads and jobs listings in the app, then users can just use smartphones to access this information.
As for how the idea will make money, companies in my country advertise mostly through newspapers, tv etc and this process is takes time and is costly, so we will have a web client that lets them post their ads(jobs, discounts) which will then be displayed in the app and users in turn can access this information.
This idea could change how information is accessed in my country and can be polished to meet the demands of the young generation with smartphones.
The template best for this is the PRODUCT HUNT CLONE.
Thank you

hi All, we just announced the winners, sorry for a slight delay.. Check out this article to find out who the winners are :) And thanks all for participating!! https://www.indiehackers.com/@Levon/and-the-377-zeroqode-template-goes-to-80c7f364e4

Problem: You need $2000 or more worth of dental treatment and you have no dental insurance. How do you efficiently "shop" for the best value with respect to both cost and quality of dental care?

Solution: You go to the DentalMarket where you are able to anonymously post an evidence-based dental record (from thedentalintegra.com) that transforms your record into a "virtual patient." On this site dentists provide you objective information about their practice and skills (further qualifying them as to your needs). Because you have been virtualized, they will be able to understand your treatment issues and render a treatment plan with a fee estimate. This website is an dutch auction-like site. Estimates are essentially blind bids, resulting in a system that creates a transparent market for dental care. Good service is rewarded with good reviews... helping to market practices that serve their patients well.

My product StartupCrux, a platform for Startups is what Roots are for Trees and a Foundation is for a Building/House.
Founders and Idea Persons will need this

• to execute efficiently - build a strong foundation of their idea by performing the fundamental startup tasks
• to save Time and Money - validate idea before investing any time and money for product development (customer-centric)
• see the big picture - gain clarity and clear understanding by asking & answering the right questions about your idea
• to provide real value - understanding target users and solve their real problems by building right products
• to succeed - understand how various components fit into the startup journey, follow the flow and lessen the chances of failure

Problem: Photographers or other people that need a booking system and need custom forms with custom add-ons that are charged.

Solution: Bult a platform with a back end CRM to keep track of clients and appointments and then built a front end page that has the services on that matches the website that is being the services.

Problem: You're an aspiring actor/standup comedian living in a small city where film auditions are next to non existent.

Solution: Online & mobile platform where you record a small clip of 15 seconds or less reading part of a script.

People can then like and follow who they really enjoy seeing. Those who have community support will be receiving the attention they deserve, giving them the opportunity to get noticed by potential recruiters.

Idea: A simple way to make double opt-in email intros that saves you hours every month.

Problem: Introducing two people via email takes a lot of time if you want to do it in the most polite/relationship-saving way (aka double opt-in, as in first asking both parties for permission to make the intro).

We built a quick landing page at https://introjoy.com — you can enter your email to get early access :)

Target market: Regular gym goers who live in cold climates.

Upvote if you leave your gym clothes in your car in the middle of winter. YA, me too. You get to the gym, reach inside your bag and it feels like you're sticking your hand in the back of the freezer for that Haagen daz ice cream that keeps eluding you.

Putting them on is even worse. Plus if you're a dude, well... You get the shrivels. Straight up.

I propose a dope gym bag lined to keep clothes warm while it sits in -30 degrees overnight. I could use your templates to make this product fly. P.S This also may be a terrible idea. **holds breath and taps ente..

Idea: A platform to find the best products and applications in a particular category (based on word of mouth publicity)

Concept: Find apps, products or tools that people you know or follow on twitter, use.
Eg: Searching for 'Best online graphic design tools' would show these suggestions
Suggestions: 1.) Mark ( friend on Facebook) uses Piktochart
2.) Allen (following on twitter) uses Canva

Or 'Best place to launch a side project'
Suggestions: 1.) Ryan (following on Twitter) uses Product Hunt
2.) Allen ( following on Twitter) uses Indie Hackers
3.) Marc (friend on Facebook) uses Betalist

@levon any updates?

Product: Simple joint marketing for service businesses

Problem: Small service businesses such as motorbike repair in (country withheld, happy to provide to judge) do not keep their customers in a database or do follow up marketing. They don’t use computers and can’t be bothered with a CRM system. They are too small to have a dedicated marketer. BUT they do have smart phones.

Solution: Joint marketing (AKA light touch franchising) with other like business that are not direct competitors (business must be 3 Km away from each other). These businesses access a simple mobile site they can enter basic customer data and repair done. 1 min max they will spend entering this data.

Each month same email/sms/whatsapp msg goes out with same offer goes to customers with only the name of the business changed. Service reminders are also sent out.

The businesses don’t schedule anything or have the ability to send offers. All they have to do is enter customer data once and the rest is taken care of.

I have already done basic research of talking to business about their needs and price point.

I am entering this on January 25 USA time so I hope I made the deadline.

Problem: Owning and maintaining snow removal and leaf blowing equipment is time consuming and not everyone's cup of tea. Hiring services for this is expensive... Furthermore, those of us that own good equipment have it sitting around mist of the time.

Solution: A Peer to Peer snowblower and leaf blower rental platform named "Go Blow Yourself " which will:

1. Allow neighbors to help each other by renting their equipment at affordable rates

2. There will even be a directory so that neighbors can hire each other for affordable rates to remove snow or leaves (though the name will have to change to something more appropriate).

As a new dad adjusting to supporting a child (and one on the way this July), I would totally rent my equipment to neighbors I knew, or take care of their snow/leaves for a few extra bucks.

The business model would be to handle the transaction online and take a small fee out of the person profiting from the transaction.

Idea: Product Hunt for the Outdoor Industry (gear, products, clothing, books, films, documentaries). Could also go more niche within the Outdoor industry, such as mountain biking, hiking, backpacking, skiing, climbing, etc.

I don't see that this is being done, and like Product Hunt, I think this would be a sticky idea, where people are constantly engaged, coming back, getting their daily emails, etc.

Though this is a late entry, my unbiased opinion is that this idea has some legs.

Problem: Typically in the addiction rehab industry there are patients that are granted work or holiday furlough. The center makes it mandatory for the patient to check in routinely in their absence which causes inconveniences in added labor & the patient for something which could simply be automated.
Solution: Now all the patient has to do is call an automated designated phone number from any mobile phone and it will authenticate through voice recognition the patient and also ask to activate the location of the device thereby eliminating the necessity of an approved landline. This eliminates the hassle of extra Manpower and also the hassle for the patient making it a streamlined process. If the patient has a personal mobile phone there will be an app where the patient can communicate with the system directly.

Problem: We buy so many things that we only use ounce (tools, tech equipement, etc.)

Solution : Peer to peer rental marketplace

Idea: a fundraising site that people can earn a point for each person who you donate to and at the end of every 10 days we pick a winner to give one of the donors a big cash prize the prize cash will come from my revenue the more people a donor donates to the more points and better odds of getting a cash prize points are just like raffle tickets this site will allow people to get funds from random people and family not just family and give the campaign creator and the donor something i would probably need a gambling license ive got a little bit of the site done on bubble but I'm not good at it not to tech I'd need to hire a bubble pro and someone who's tech savvy

Problem: When googling for that item you know you want to buy but just can't find anybody to sell it or make it for you.

Solution: Snap or grab an image that best visually describes the thing you need, post it to a community of shoppers via messenger or app and get their responses to help you find or even buy the thing direct.

Problem : Huge capital expenditure in aquiring machinery or acquire temporary expert/manpower

Solution : Rent / lease / barter everything from Machinery to manpower from carpenter drill machine to Petrolium drilling unit..

Benifit : Huge saving on cost or good opportunity for statup or small contractor to pay per use no trouble of calculating return over capitol even big companies can

Revenue model : Its USP will disclose only to investors

Intrested partner contact us : [email protected]

Thanks & regards
Please add your valuable recomondations

Problem: You are a programmer and want to be more productive.

Solution: You start a live coding stream on Twitch and submit the link to a website that pairs you with another programmer who is also live coding.

If you are on Twitter, they shame you in the chat. The ceiling cat isn’t the only one watching you anymore.

Reviews are cool. Millennials are review happy. The trick is how do you build reviews and customer feedback into your business model.

First, how do you show people that others are reviewing your business on different platforms? That by itself will tell them a lot, it's strong recommendation. Do you tell them to go to google businesses, Facebook, Yelp and check your reviews? Or do you just display your reviews right on your website?

Second, how do you make people review and rate you on different platforms? Why do you send people away to view and write reviews to different platforms?

Because there is no way. What if there is though?

Have people to write you reviews right on your website, Google local business review, Yelp review, Facebook review etc.

Have a "Review my business" or "Tell us what you think" link

Why

1. No one is leaving your site, low bounce rate
2. People have less inclination to review/rate negatively when they are still on your own site. So expect good reviews and rates,
3. People don't have to go to different sites and rate/review when they can do it all in one place,
4. Show off the reviews you already have,
5. Locations and business with a lot of reviews tend to rank higher in SERP,
6. Build trust in your business
7. Increase CTR

How
Just add some JS code snippets into your Review Me page.

Product: web service that helps creators and artists detect their Intellectual Property being stolen.

Problem: while it's fairly easy to track whether someone's misusing your brand logo/name or content you've posted on your blog, there's a market gap in terms of such a tool for graphic designers, musicians, film-makers who want to protect their work. Think an architect whose designs are repeatedly stolen and posted on media sites, blogs, Instagram profiles etc. Or a sound producer whose jingle keeps being illegally used by Youtubers.

Solution: crawler paired up with AI which allows tracking various digital content and scanning it to discover if it matches any work sample in our library.