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10 side projects ideas up for grabs

  1. Connecting side project founders with sales/marketing people

    • Problem: One of the major problem indie makers/ solopreneur face is difficulty in the marketing of their products due to lack of knowledge, experience and due to this a lot of good projects never take off. so building a platform that will connect these two parties either by -> revenue share, part-time job or even co-founding it together.
  2. Freelancing marketplace only for students

    • Problem: Current marketplaces like Fiverr/Upwork are filled with professionals having a ton of experience and they generally bag all the tasks. So for students looking for some part-time jobs find it very difficult to compete with them.
      So building a platform where only students get accepted, thus providing them with extra cash + helps them build some credibility.
  3. Connecting brands with micro-influencers

    • Problems: For brands, it is hard to find micro-influencers who can promote their product and provide them with the best ROI and since micro-influencers are the best way to reach a niche. So building a platform where brands can get a list of all the influencers in their niche with stats like views, likes, CPC, engagement, etc. so that they can connect directly with them, run - track campaigns.
  4. AI-based domain name generator

  • Problem: The market is filled with rule-based domain name generators that use prefix, suffix and other tricks to suggest domain names. Using AI can enable to use of various context, keywords, word-level understanding to generate better domain names.
  1. Real-time accent translation plugins for video chats applications
  • Problem: Communication with people speaking different accents is major issue with video chats, so creating a solution that will do the accent translation on the fly.
  1. Connecting podcasts with advertisers

  2. Decentralized password manager builds on top of Blockstack

  3. Unlimited content marketing as a service -> inspired by manypixels

  • Problem: Hiring a content marketing team takes a lot of effort, time and most of the time ends up giving bad results. So the idea is to build a platform of handpicked content marketers and provide a service where users can post blog topics and get an SEO optimized blog posts.
  1. Content repurposing and distribution tool

    • Problem: Repurposing content involves - creating various tweets snippets, scheduling them using Buffer or other tools, creating infographics, creating slides to push it to Slideshare, creating pins, writing quora answers, creating social media content like Facebook, Instagram posts/stories requires a lot of effort. It would be great to build a platform that will generate tweets, help with infographic development, social media posts and also help to distribute the same from the platform.
  2. Automatic social media posts generation and scheduling using AI
    -Similar to the above one -> "Given a blogpost, generate tweets, Facebook, Instagram posts, Pinterest pins, etc" --> Recently this was launched on producthunt -> https://www.bannerbear.com/

on January 19, 2020
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    It would be cool to rephrase these as problems that need solving. Why would people need the above?

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    I've already done #4: https://naminus.com . You can hit Like / Love on words to teach it your tastes. Would love any feedback! Reply to this comment for free credits :)

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      This looks great.
      Good job on the UI/UX part. Nailed it.

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    #2 Freelancing marketplace for students
    How is different than Fiverr or Upwork?

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      Fiverr/Upwork is filled with professionals having lot of experience and they generally bag all of the tasks.
      For students out there, looking for some part-time cash and at the same time build some credibilty it becomes difficult for them to get jobs.
      So the idea - is to build a freelancing platform where only students will get accepted on - No professionals.

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        Why would clients hire students to build their application?

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    I'd say #4 doesn't really need to be AI-based? A decent domain name generator could be built without the use of AI. Although finding good metrics on keywords and combining the two based on a particular industry would be really cool!

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      @dcmox You might like my project, https://naminus.com

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    The above sound cool - what kind of traction do you have with them? Can you share links to them so that we can check them out.

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      They are just "ideas up for grabs", i.e. if you like the idea you are free to take it and make into a real thing :)