🛠 3 Startup Ideas to Build

As one of the builders behind Kern.al, I’m privileged to get a front row seat to new startup ideas shared everyday of the week. So, I thought what better series to write on than the top startup ideas I think Indiehackers could be building right now. ✏️

Even if you’re feeling low from the crypto meltdown or being overwhelmed by your email notifications, I want to build a series where you can sit back, enjoy the ride and simply listen to the best startup ideas coming out of the corner of the internet.

And if you like them, send me a note, and I can connect you with the original poster of the idea on Kern.al. Sounds like a plan? Let’s get started.

Here’s 3 startup ideas to be inspired by this week: 🙌🏽

Startup Idea 1: Yelp for Online Courses by Will Smith

The concept: According to Will, “Online courses are multiplying. It's a mess out there. Lots of choice, yes, but also lots of crap. As a prospective customer, how do I see honest reviews from previous students? And, how do I see all the courses in one place?”

The answer? Building a “Yelp for Online Courses”.

How it’d work: Imagine a Yelp-like authoritative site where you could enter "crypto" or "sleep training" or "piano", and all the courses on the internet are displayed for me, along with user reviews.

More information for users: In addition to reviews, each course page would display course length, launch date, info on the course creator, price, etc etc. All the specs of the course.

Business model: “Affiliate deal with every course. You wouldn't compromise the reviews by boosting high-paying affiliates; user ratings would still rule the day. You would just make every link to a course's website an affiliate link.

So, a baked-in business model. Network effects. Meets a clear need. Kind of an obvious idea.”

Like the idea? Let Will know you’d like to help build or invest in it here.

Startup Idea 2: Save, Discover and browse someone’s bookmarked content

It’s 10am. Picture Elon Musk or Sheryl Sandberg typing away on their laptop. They’ve gone through all their emails, tweets and to-do’s and they’ve got all their bookmarks, flagged notes and saved items.

Then they export that saved bookmark list for the world to see what they’re following. This was Crystal’s idea. A public list where people’s bookmarks, blogs, content pieces and research is visible for free or paid users to learn from.

What do you think? Would you use this or help build it? Sounds pretty good to me. Let Crystal know here if you want to link up for a chat.

Startup Idea 3: MicroAcquire but for no-code projects

According to Roman Beylin, there’s a huge need for a marketplace to buy and sell businesses in the no-code ecosystem. I agree. And so do 11 others on Kern.al.

The pitch? Why not build a microaquire where prospective no-code builders and buyers of no-code projects can exchange ideas and share their interests. The service would tee up conversations and function like a broker for great ideas and ambitious investors.

Seemed like this avenue worked for Ben Tossell who sold his community to Zapier off a tweet that Wade (their CEO) caught wind of…

Why not reach out to Andrew at Microaquire and Roman to explore this further? Want to chip into the idea thread? Leave a comment or connect with Roman here.

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This wraps it up for the first article of the Startup Series I’ll be writing on for IndieHackers.

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