15 Free Business Ideas
15 Free Business Ideas
#free-ideas
- Reflection Journal for self-employed people
- App selling discounted leftovers for restaurants. If a restaurant has a mess-up or needs to throw something away the next day, they can post it for sale in the app.
- A site that helps people and businesses find nonprofits to help. Nonprofits list their projects/needs and people can get in touch with them to help.
- Technology tutorial videos for old people (on cassette? 😂)
- Netflix for eBooks
- Let’s Get Coffee – business professionals; pairing service similar to matchmaking service. Tinder-like interface where you can swipe to grab coffee and talk about business and careers (might get a lot of salespeople using this 🤦♂️)
- Aggregator site for social media stats. I'm sick of compiling this for clients each week.
- Responsive email builder tool. Browser-based.
- Why has no one ever bottled the Shirley Temple? Best drink.
- Dev retreat (like a giant Hackathon retreat)
- Credit card affiliate site (make it filterable and searchable)
- Book a photographer service for any event: just book the event, and we coordinate.
- A crowdsourced local news source. “For the people, by the people.”
- Who Beat Who: Ranking software for sports, based on head-to-head matchups.
- A fully automated Twitter bot that finds and retweets the best TweetStorms. Use the bot to build a site based on this content.
Note: I'm an entrepreneurial freelancer, who is currently looking for work. I specialize in front-end design and digital marketing (especially list-building). If you're looking to hire or even just get a small task done, hit me up!
"Aggregator site for social media stats. I'm sick of compiling this for clients each week." - wondering what this means. Also great list!
Ah, sorry for the lack of clarity. I literally posted these from a note-taking app. You're right, that post doesn't make too much sense without context :/ A further explanation is below:
As a freelancer, I sometimes do social media marketing. At the end of every week, I like to send my clients a report on their social media stats/metrics. Building these reports myself on a weekly basis is annoying. A service that connects to my different social media accounts, and generates a weekly report for me would be awesome!
Something like https://across-app.com/ ?
Yep! Very similar to that.
No worries - this sounds interesting and an MVP can potentially be built quickly. Wondering if you would be keen to take this further?
No, I don't plan on building it. It's an interesting idea, but I don't have the time or passion to pursue this particular idea.
Is it tracking user activity over week for specific social media profiles, re-tweet, share etc. I was about to send email but found answers in the comments :-)
Ok, last question then - what kinds of stats / metrics would you normally compile in a report? Sorry, this idea is too interesting for me to ask!
Things like weekly views from my site by integrating with Google Analytics, new social media followers on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook, Weekly revenu from Stripe, etc.
Thank you!
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Oh god I love the 2nd idea.
I found the "Too Good to Go" app a while back in Berlin. Looks like it's available in many EU countries: https://toogoodtogo.co.uk
I liked the idea too but it sounds like the liability exposure it'd have would make it not worth it for the restaurant.
If you're interested in it, I'd encourage you to start. Landing page might help validate it. Also check with local restaurants and see if they are receptive to the idea.
Look this up as well. I know someone has tried this before. He/she might have good feedback for you.
I like the 3rd idea.
In fact, I registered the domain too (OneNonProfit.org). Let see how far I can go with it. But It would be really good if we have something like this.
My nonprofit has worked with The Taproot Foundation (https://taprootfoundation.org/), a nonprofit with a similar idea. The staff there is very helpful but their network of professionals (at least for what we were looking for ) was limited.
I agree with you. Creating something like this is not a one person job. We need volunteers from every country/state (even cities) who know about the local nonprofits and. One way is to add ambassador program that will encourage people to volunteer their time.
Yes, it's definitely a tough problem to solve. Finding donors would help get this thing running.
I am under the mindset that nonprofits should still seek to be profitable. Think about how many people companies like "Tom's" has helped. Or Sawyers Water. The only way nonprofits keep running, and running well, is if they bake profit into their business/nonprofit model. Companies that just seek donations either eventually fail, or get so big and only end up donating a piece of it because they need to pay their employees. A nonprofit that is incentivized, but still helps people is ideal.
That's just my two cents on non-profits. I'm sure some will disagree. But if you go about building this, think about how you can make it sustainable for both you and the organizations that you are helping.
How does this work vis a vis being a nonprofit in legal terms? Noob here. Is the idea to be a for-profit, but to have a charitable mission at its core?
Nice! That would be awesome. Let me know if you launch!
That's a good one. It kind of reminds me of Pioneer.app, except the "Leaderboard" would be based on # of keywords ranked for, relevancy, traffic, etc. That would be amazing.
Oh yeah Pioneer is a little different but I see your point. :)
I always find it easier to continue with a side project if I can challenge one of my colleagues to work on something similar. (Competition and time are 2 huuuge key motivators!)
Hi,
Can you expand upon the idea of the reflection journal for self-employed people?
Idea number 1.)
Thanks
I haven't thought too much about this idea.
Originally when I wrote it, I was self-employed and working as a freelancer. I feel like a journal similar to the bullet journal, but for business owners would be super niche and cool thing to have.
When I stopped working for someone else, and started working for myself, a lot of thought went into it. I was constantly refining my processes and methods for doing things. A journal that guided me through this would have been cool.
Hope that helps.
Hi, App for selling the leftovers seems a very interesting one by the way. Not sure something like that is being used in the market. Anyhow this would help a lot of people. Could you give me more details and suggestions you have about it?
Thanks,
Vivek
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Great list!
Thanks for the nice list of ideas. I'm working on something similar to 12. https://www.momint.app is my current project.
Nice! That idea has some legs. I'm sure the tough part is the marketing. Maybe start local and build out from there? Good luck with the project.
what's your email. Looking forward to collaborate on something
Hey, looks like I need to add my email to my profile. Done!
My email is jonny.goodwin at gmail dot com
These are some really interesting ideas. Number 13 seems like something that WikiTribune is currently doing. Cool list nonetheless :)
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