Blog Startup Ideas

1 month ago

A platform that helps you set up a personal website, create a blog, or manage a portfolio.

287

2 years ago

A platform for small businesses to publish, organize, and send their blog posts directly to their subscribers’ inboxes.

223

3 years ago

If you’re a food blogger, you need to know how to cook. The startup helps you do just that with a workflow that allows you to take photos of food you’re cooking and then create a recipe card that you can share with your readers.

176

3 years ago

A news aggregator for the legal industry, using a combination of legal news, blogs, and a Wikipedia-like reference library to stay on top of legal news.

176

1 year ago

“The Motley Fool” is a U.S. financial and investing blog and website, founded in 1996.

168

3 years ago

A social media site for bloggers, with the goal of helping people find the most interesting content and share it with their friends.

160

3 years ago

A startupging platform that lets users manage multiple blogs in one place.

154

1 year ago

A tool for understanding the many different ways in which people can make money online, such as blogging, affiliate marketing, and paid video production.

153

3 years ago

This startup aims to make it easier for people to take pictures of their food, and to turn them into a food blog.

151

3 years ago

This is a tool for people who want to get paid to write content for others, and it’s built on the WordPress platform. It lets people write blog posts, copywriting articles, or any other type of content for clients.

150

1 year ago

This company is building a dynamic, social network for creators. The company’s users are known as “creators”, and they’re able to join the platform via social channels like Facebook and Twitter. The company’s blog is meant to be a “creators” hub, where they’re able to share their work, and tips and tricks.

150

3 years ago

Localized and hand-curated content for small businesses, such as a website’s homepage, blog, and store.

144

1 year ago

A startup service that allows users to create a blog and share it with their social networks

142

3 years ago

Polldaddy is an app that allows users to make polls, collect data, and share the results. It works with most social media and blogging platforms.

137

3 years ago

A company that helps businesses start their own blog, with tools for handling content creation, editing, and publishing, including a content management system.

134

2 years ago

Ideabook is a blog that highlights the interesting startups, interesting ideas, and interesting people at Y Combinator.

134

3 years ago

This startup is building out a news aggregation platform for journalists and bloggers to gather content from sources like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

131

3 years ago

The winners of the first two Eastern European deals were announced in a blog post on July 1, 2018.

123

2 years ago

A startup that lets you share blog posts, products, and events with your social network through SMS. It’s free, and as you write you get paid in cash, in dollars or in bitcoin.

123

3 years ago

A SaaS platform that takes the pain out of doing things like setting up a blog, managing a mailing list, and publishing content online.

122

3 years ago

A marketing platform aimed at online influencers, like bloggers, vloggers, and podcasters, that provides analytics, automated email marketing, and more.

120

2 years ago

A platform that lets you create a personal blog or journal, write posts, and publish them on your own website, and share them with friends and family.

120

2 years ago

A SaaS-based startup that helps retailers and brands connect with influencers and bloggers to create content that drives social media engagement and sales.

120

1 year ago

A startup that turns your blog post or story into a video and helps you publish it to social media.

119

1 year ago

A content-marketing tool for food bloggers. The startup takes a percentage of a blogger’s ad revenue.

118

2 years ago

A company focused on helping companies find and recruit people who create content like blogs, podcasts, or YouTube channels. Content creators have to manually fill out applications and get approval from the startup to be on their platform. The startup has already raised $100,000 and is looking for more investment.

117

2 years ago

This startup is building a service that automatically generates an article and blog post for a journalist based on their content.

116

3 years ago

A platform that helps brands get social media engagement from their customers. The company is developing a micro-blogging platform for brands, with a focus on its “Brand Advocates”, who are Instagrammers who are paid to share and promote the brands with their followers. The company is nearing $2 million in funding after raising $800,000 in seed capital.

115

2 years ago

A social network for bloggers, publishers, and readers to keep in touch and share content.

115

2 years ago

A simple blogging platform for creating media in the style of Tumblr or WordPress.

113

2 years ago

This startup helps small businesses build websites from scratch using HTML5, CSS, and Google Fonts. The startup takes care of things like a logo, social media, fancy blog posts, and of course, the website itself. The startup is based in New York.

113

2 years ago

A platform that helps users create and buy custom stories for their businesses, letting them build custom landing pages, sales pages, blog posts, and e-books.

106

2 years ago

In mid-2016, the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics launched a data-driven blog, “The BLS Blog”, to provide updates and analysis of the state of the American economy. The blog is written by an editorial team of BLS economists and content managers.

106

2 years ago

A web app and blog aimed at helping companies and people with a “better understanding of their political beliefs”.

102

2 years ago

The "Y Combinator Blog" is a blog that provides updates about YC companies along with news about YC itself and the startup community.

101

2 years ago

The BLS blog provides a daily newsletter, typically written by an economist, that summarizes recent changes in labor market conditions locally and nationally, and features summaries of research findings.

98

2 years ago

A WordPress-based blogging platform that removes the clutter of a blog, allowing you to focus on what you’re saying, not all the add-ons you’re using.

97

2 years ago

A startup that allows employers to find candidates to do side hustle tasks, like writing blogs or social media posts, for a small fee.

96

1 year ago

As it stands, nearly every startup has a website or a blog. This tool allows you to create a website or a blog for your company, product or idea. A tool to help you create a website, blog or app.

96

2 years ago

A browser extension that lets users embed a Google Analytics account into their blog or website, with the added bonus that it will also track the page views. It’s a simple idea, but one that could be very useful to small businesses.

92

2 years ago

A startup to help bloggers plan their content and work with brands to create sponsored content.

91

2 years ago

This personal finance startup wants to help people build a complete and accurate picture of their finances. The startup itself is based on a DIY personal finance blog.

88

1 year ago

A platform for large scale accounting and finance for small businesses. It’s also a blogging platform for small business owners to document their business and practices.

87

10 months ago

A startup that helps bloggers increase their reach and content distribution. The company has built a micro-influencer network that helps content creators get featured on other sites and generate more traffic.

85

2 years ago

Startup that wants to create a platform that would allow people to create an “anonymously encrypted blog” for their friends, family, and co-workers.

84

8 months ago

Keeping an eye on the most relevant news, articles, and blogs for their readers and giving them a way to better organize and read them.

82

2 years ago

Pivot is a social network for women entrepreneurs. It started in 2016 as a blog that features women in the Philadelphia area, but has since grown to include a community of over 600,000 women.

80

2 years ago

Blogging software that helps coaches and other industry pros manage their blogs, tracking social media growth and other metrics.

77

2 years ago

This startup is building a tool for beer lovers to find, learn about and share reviews of craft beers. The startup has in the past month added beer reviews from a handful of beer experts and bloggers to its platform.

75

7 months ago

A free web-hosting service that allows users to create their own websites, blogs, and photo galleries.

73

2 years ago

In a blog post, the company announced a new product called “Individual Plans”, which allow you to customize your coverage and how much risk you’re willing to take.

72

1 year ago

You can find more of our startup interviews on our blog.

65

3 years ago

A startup that teaches people how to make money blogging

63

1 year ago

A company that makes it easier for people to translate and write content in their native language, whether it’s in the form of a blog post or an email.

63

1 month ago

A business that scrapes content from various blogs and uses artificial intelligence to provide the best content for each individual blogger

62

1 year ago

Allows influencers to link to their blog content on various social media sites. Users can also follow influencers and “favorite” their posts, which are then pushed to their feeds.

61

3 years ago

Idea: A social network for professionals to share articles, blogs, and videos

60

1 year ago

A social sharing platform for bloggers and startup founders.

60

1 year ago

A platform that helps photographers build portfolios using a variety of photos. The startup is bootstrapped and currently working to get in front of bloggers and other influencers before it's ready for a round.

58

1 year ago

A place where the public can share the products they find, which they’ve discovered through their fashion and lifestyle blogs.

58

1 year ago

The Business of College is a collection of stories and advice from YC partners who will be sharing their experiences from the 2015 class in a series of blog posts.

57

7 months ago

Pitch: A platform to make it quick and easy to create and share content with others (such as a blog or website) and get paid for it, while also keeping track of your own data.

56

1 year ago

A way to use pre-built markdown templates to build a blog.

54

1 year ago

A startup that lets you create, manage, and share your private blog from your phone.

54

1 year ago

A tool to help founders and engineers create and distribute their personal blog posts.

53

9 months ago

A venture-backed startup that helps new companies get their name out into digital. It allows founders to create customized branded websites and blogs, and gives them tools to help them effectively communicate with their community.

52

7 months ago

A platform that enables you to get paid for your content, such as blog posts, videos, photos, etc. from their website, blog, and social media accounts, providing an avenue for publishers to get paid for their content.

52

2 years ago

A new kind of social network, partially on the blockchain, for people who want to earn crypto by posting, commenting, and linking to articles on forums, blogs, and other websites.

51

1 year ago

The founders of this app want to build a tool for managing digital feedback. Instead of emailing feedback to a manager or leaving a comment on a blog post, users can send feedback directly to a specific employee, and the app’s smart algorithms will automatically highlight the most important parts of each comment so the employee can see it, reply to it, and move on without having to read through unnecessary comments.

51

7 months ago

A collaborative space with a focus on technology. They have a job board, a blog, and a meetup group.

51

1 year ago

Check out their blog post on how they built their prototype of this tool.

50

3 years ago

Idea: A way to make sure you don’t miss a story from your favorite blogger

47

1 year ago

Part of Y Combinator’s revised application process, revised from the one from the summer, includes a video introduction from the founders. Some of the founders have also been blogging about their experiences.

46

1 year ago

A web app that helps people find joy in the everyday. You’ll be able to build a home page or blog, then use it to share content with friends, or invite others to join in.

46

6 months ago

A platform for small businesses to manage and grow their online presence. It’s an online platform that allows local businesses to create a website, a blog, and ads. It also handles payment processing, inventory management and customer service.

46

1 year ago

A cloud platform that lets you share business cards and links to your blog, and then get automatic email updates when those items are shared.

44

10 months ago

A platform that allows you to manage your online presence by creating and sharing content on your own behalf (for instance, a blog) and through others (for instance, a LinkedIn page.)

44

11 months ago

One of the most-followed accounts on Instagram is a personal food blog from a female scout leader, who shares recipes and photos of food. Cookbook.me wants to build a crowdsourced site that crowdsources content from bloggers and chefs.

43

6 months ago

A free, unlimited, ad-free way to publish a blog in a standard HTML format, using an open source blogging platform.

42

11 months ago

A startup building a visual analytics dashboard for publishers, analyzing their data and showing the health of their website or blog.

41

9 months ago

A SaaS platform that helps businesses manage their social media and blog content. The platform is free for companies with fewer than 200 users, with plans starting at $4 per user after that.

40

5 months ago

A startup with a medical blog that helps doctors share their knowledge and insights.

40

11 months ago

A new social media platform that aims to reach the younger generations with a spoof of an old-school blog that lets users create posts, track them, and read them in real time.

39

7 months ago

Both a blog and a photography site for artists, with a heavy emphasis on the former.

39

4 months ago

A crowdsourced social network for the LGBTQ community, with a purpose of being a safe, welcoming place for people to connect and organize around their interests. They’re starting with a blog-like platform where users can post their opinions on current events and share their personal stories.

39

11 months ago

A web-based learning platform for business owners that allows users to build online courses on top of their own blog or website.

35

1 year ago

A platform for advertisers to create and manage branded content. It’s a platform that allows brands to have their own branded content, from videos to podcasts to blogs.

33

5 months ago

This is a tool for taking photos of your food and then sending a request to a network of other food bloggers to recreate the dish. The platform is powered by a community of “food influencers” who are also food bloggers and are compensated by the platform.

32

4 months ago

A platform for publishing and sharing news, blogs and articles through a private, personalized RSS feed.

29

2 months ago

Instead of a “Google for writers”, the startup instead wants to build a platform that allows writers to get paid for writing on any topic. It’s a platform that lets people get paid for their writing, similar to Blogger.com or OpenIDEO.

23

2 months ago

This startup aims to be the email marketing platform for small businesses. It’s based on a blog post from former TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington.

20

3 months ago

A platform that helps companies hire and manage their social media marketing. It does this by recommending content and posting schedules. The company has an active blog where it reveals how it “solved” a customer’s problem in social media marketing.

18

21 days ago

A micro-blogging app that helps users organize and manage their thoughts. The app is aimed at people with the mental health condition of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Users can write down their thoughts in a diary and share them with their friends, family, and followers.

18

19 days ago

An online reputation management service that lets you clean up your reputation by writing a blog post or posting a video.

17

2 months ago

A self-promotion platform for makers, makerspaces and makerspaces. It offers services like a blog, a newsletter, and listing on websites like Etsy, and the tools to make any item sold via the platform.

16

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Blog Startup Ideas

A platform that helps you set up a personal website, create a blog, or manage a portfolio.

A platform for small businesses to publish, organize, and send their blog posts directly to their subscribers’ inboxes.

If you’re a food blogger, you need to know how to cook. The startup helps you do just that with a workflow that allows you to take photos of food you’re cooking and then create a recipe card that you can share with your readers.

A news aggregator for the legal industry, using a combination of legal news, blogs, and a Wikipedia-like reference library to stay on top of legal news.

“The Motley Fool” is a U.S. financial and investing blog and website, founded in 1996.

A social media site for bloggers, with the goal of helping people find the most interesting content and share it with their friends.

A startupging platform that lets users manage multiple blogs in one place.

A tool for understanding the many different ways in which people can make money online, such as blogging, affiliate marketing, and paid video production.

This startup aims to make it easier for people to take pictures of their food, and to turn them into a food blog.

This is a tool for people who want to get paid to write content for others, and it’s built on the WordPress platform. It lets people write blog posts, copywriting articles, or any other type of content for clients.

Localized and hand-curated content for small businesses, such as a website’s homepage, blog, and store.

A startup service that allows users to create a blog and share it with their social networks

Polldaddy is an app that allows users to make polls, collect data, and share the results. It works with most social media and blogging platforms.

A company that helps businesses start their own blog, with tools for handling content creation, editing, and publishing, including a content management system.

Ideabook is a blog that highlights the interesting startups, interesting ideas, and interesting people at Y Combinator.

This startup is building out a news aggregation platform for journalists and bloggers to gather content from sources like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

The winners of the first two Eastern European deals were announced in a blog post on July 1, 2018.

A startup that lets you share blog posts, products, and events with your social network through SMS. It’s free, and as you write you get paid in cash, in dollars or in bitcoin.

A SaaS platform that takes the pain out of doing things like setting up a blog, managing a mailing list, and publishing content online.

A marketing platform aimed at online influencers, like bloggers, vloggers, and podcasters, that provides analytics, automated email marketing, and more.

A platform that lets you create a personal blog or journal, write posts, and publish them on your own website, and share them with friends and family.

A SaaS-based startup that helps retailers and brands connect with influencers and bloggers to create content that drives social media engagement and sales.

A startup that turns your blog post or story into a video and helps you publish it to social media.

A content-marketing tool for food bloggers. The startup takes a percentage of a blogger’s ad revenue.

This startup is building a service that automatically generates an article and blog post for a journalist based on their content.

A social network for bloggers, publishers, and readers to keep in touch and share content.

A simple blogging platform for creating media in the style of Tumblr or WordPress.

This startup helps small businesses build websites from scratch using HTML5, CSS, and Google Fonts. The startup takes care of things like a logo, social media, fancy blog posts, and of course, the website itself. The startup is based in New York.

A platform that helps users create and buy custom stories for their businesses, letting them build custom landing pages, sales pages, blog posts, and e-books.

In mid-2016, the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics launched a data-driven blog, “The BLS Blog”, to provide updates and analysis of the state of the American economy. The blog is written by an editorial team of BLS economists and content managers.

A web app and blog aimed at helping companies and people with a “better understanding of their political beliefs”.

The "Y Combinator Blog" is a blog that provides updates about YC companies along with news about YC itself and the startup community.

The BLS blog provides a daily newsletter, typically written by an economist, that summarizes recent changes in labor market conditions locally and nationally, and features summaries of research findings.

A WordPress-based blogging platform that removes the clutter of a blog, allowing you to focus on what you’re saying, not all the add-ons you’re using.

A startup that allows employers to find candidates to do side hustle tasks, like writing blogs or social media posts, for a small fee.

As it stands, nearly every startup has a website or a blog. This tool allows you to create a website or a blog for your company, product or idea. A tool to help you create a website, blog or app.

A browser extension that lets users embed a Google Analytics account into their blog or website, with the added bonus that it will also track the page views. It’s a simple idea, but one that could be very useful to small businesses.

A startup to help bloggers plan their content and work with brands to create sponsored content.

This personal finance startup wants to help people build a complete and accurate picture of their finances. The startup itself is based on a DIY personal finance blog.

A platform for large scale accounting and finance for small businesses. It’s also a blogging platform for small business owners to document their business and practices.

A startup that helps bloggers increase their reach and content distribution. The company has built a micro-influencer network that helps content creators get featured on other sites and generate more traffic.

Startup that wants to create a platform that would allow people to create an “anonymously encrypted blog” for their friends, family, and co-workers.

Keeping an eye on the most relevant news, articles, and blogs for their readers and giving them a way to better organize and read them.

Pivot is a social network for women entrepreneurs. It started in 2016 as a blog that features women in the Philadelphia area, but has since grown to include a community of over 600,000 women.

Blogging software that helps coaches and other industry pros manage their blogs, tracking social media growth and other metrics.

This startup is building a tool for beer lovers to find, learn about and share reviews of craft beers. The startup has in the past month added beer reviews from a handful of beer experts and bloggers to its platform.

A free web-hosting service that allows users to create their own websites, blogs, and photo galleries.

In a blog post, the company announced a new product called “Individual Plans”, which allow you to customize your coverage and how much risk you’re willing to take.

You can find more of our startup interviews on our blog.

A startup that teaches people how to make money blogging

A company that makes it easier for people to translate and write content in their native language, whether it’s in the form of a blog post or an email.

A business that scrapes content from various blogs and uses artificial intelligence to provide the best content for each individual blogger

Allows influencers to link to their blog content on various social media sites. Users can also follow influencers and “favorite” their posts, which are then pushed to their feeds.

Idea: A social network for professionals to share articles, blogs, and videos

A social sharing platform for bloggers and startup founders.

A platform that helps photographers build portfolios using a variety of photos. The startup is bootstrapped and currently working to get in front of bloggers and other influencers before it's ready for a round.

A place where the public can share the products they find, which they’ve discovered through their fashion and lifestyle blogs.

The Business of College is a collection of stories and advice from YC partners who will be sharing their experiences from the 2015 class in a series of blog posts.

Pitch: A platform to make it quick and easy to create and share content with others (such as a blog or website) and get paid for it, while also keeping track of your own data.

A way to use pre-built markdown templates to build a blog.

A startup that lets you create, manage, and share your private blog from your phone.

A tool to help founders and engineers create and distribute their personal blog posts.

A venture-backed startup that helps new companies get their name out into digital. It allows founders to create customized branded websites and blogs, and gives them tools to help them effectively communicate with their community.

A platform that enables you to get paid for your content, such as blog posts, videos, photos, etc. from their website, blog, and social media accounts, providing an avenue for publishers to get paid for their content.

A new kind of social network, partially on the blockchain, for people who want to earn crypto by posting, commenting, and linking to articles on forums, blogs, and other websites.

A collaborative space with a focus on technology. They have a job board, a blog, and a meetup group.

Check out their blog post on how they built their prototype of this tool.

Idea: A way to make sure you don’t miss a story from your favorite blogger

Part of Y Combinator’s revised application process, revised from the one from the summer, includes a video introduction from the founders. Some of the founders have also been blogging about their experiences.

A web app that helps people find joy in the everyday. You’ll be able to build a home page or blog, then use it to share content with friends, or invite others to join in.

A platform for small businesses to manage and grow their online presence. It’s an online platform that allows local businesses to create a website, a blog, and ads. It also handles payment processing, inventory management and customer service.

A cloud platform that lets you share business cards and links to your blog, and then get automatic email updates when those items are shared.

A platform that allows you to manage your online presence by creating and sharing content on your own behalf (for instance, a blog) and through others (for instance, a LinkedIn page.)

One of the most-followed accounts on Instagram is a personal food blog from a female scout leader, who shares recipes and photos of food. Cookbook.me wants to build a crowdsourced site that crowdsources content from bloggers and chefs.

A free, unlimited, ad-free way to publish a blog in a standard HTML format, using an open source blogging platform.

A startup building a visual analytics dashboard for publishers, analyzing their data and showing the health of their website or blog.

A SaaS platform that helps businesses manage their social media and blog content. The platform is free for companies with fewer than 200 users, with plans starting at $4 per user after that.