3 Business Ideas Someone Should Build

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#1: Camping Coworking

The Pain Points

Even on vacation, I usually work 1-2 hours a day. Sometimes more. It's quite tricky to work from a caravan - internet sucks, electricity limitations, not a comfy place to work, crying baby (in my case). I was searching, with no success, for ANY place where I could have a deep work session for at least 4 hours. For sure, there is not a massive market for campsites with an onsite coworking space but I believe that 1 or 2 in each country would simply crush it!

The Opportunity

Someone should create a website where people can look up campsites with an onsite coworking space. This could be very niche, but I think it would be a quick win. There are tons of campers, RVers, and people with their own trailers who would love to work from a nice, comfortable place to stay.

And if no such campsite exists in a given area, there’s an opportunity to start one.

#2: Fix artist newsletters

The Pain Points

Last summer, I analyzed the websites of 57 top recording artists across genres and subscribed to all their newsletters for 3.5 months. Five didn't have newsletters, 27 never sent a newsletter, and only 5 sent more than 10 emails.

More importantly, only 3 artists newsletters were normally written in first person and only 2 sent newsletters that weren't entirely transactional (George Ezra and Nick Cave). Nearly every single newsletter for every artist just blasts out advertisements to buy merch or concert tickets. They are spam even to devoted fans, offering less substance that what is already gained from following the artist on Instagram.

The Opportunity

In online marketing circles everyone knows “the money is in the list”. But outside our little bubble, most people don’t realize how valuable a list of people who opted in to hear from you is. So there is definitely an opportunity to explain, for example, to artists how much money they’re leaving on the table by not using their email lists more effectively.

Similarly many celebrity websites are severely underoptimized or flat-out broken. So here too is an opportunity to offer a service to upgrade and monetize these sites. Even just helping them install a Facebook tracking pixel and then running some highly targeted ads to their cameo pages could be a quick but effective win.

#3: Duolingo for your career, on Slack.

The Pain Points

After navigating a role switch at a previous company I was dealing with imposter syndrome, burnout, and a whole lot of anxiety. After months of vetting career coaches online I found Lindsay. But, Lindsay cost me $4,000, and that's just not a price most of us can afford.

95% of what I did with Lindsay was my doing the hard work. She was there for accountability and to ask me good questions.

Career coaching is usually reserved for the few privileged individuals at the top in the hopes that the learnings will trickle down to all levels. But that's not what happens. What if instead of going top-down, we go bottom-up because everyone deserves a coach.

The Opportunity

A coach (bot) with an attitude that lives in Slack and works where you work. It's like Duolingo meets Headspace for your career. It’s quick, fun, and on-demand. It delivers bite-sized exercises that build on top of each other and help you gain clarity and confidence to navigate your career.

By collaborating with coaches, behavioral psychologists, and organizational scientists we create short and interactive courses that help you self-reflect and define your next goals and priorities.

Thanks for reading!