Difficult Startup Ideas

3 years ago

A startup that helps people with difficult to manage health conditions (diabetes, heart conditions, etc) and helps them to manage their health conditions with reminders to take medicine, etc

180

3 years ago

A platform for medical transcriptionists to get paid for their services, which are in high demand but difficult to find.

167

3 years ago

A startup that helps students of any age who are having difficulty in school to get tutoring

147

1 month ago

A company that helps people who are looking to move to another country and get a job. They have built a digital platform for both companies and individuals to find out how difficult it would be to get a job in a foreign country.

144

1 month ago

A company that builds an ad platform for health care. It’s a market estimated to be worth $25 billion in the US, but is so closely regulated that it’s difficult to do business there.

143

3 years ago

The startup is building a system that lets restaurant operators do inventory management automatically, which is difficult because of the high number of variables involved in managing inventory, from the type of food to how it’s portioned and stored.

139

3 years ago

New York - New York City is home to the largest financial district in the world, but the cost of living for interns in this area is so high that it’s difficult for companies to entice young talent to stay. This startup, known as Give, wants to make it easier for companies to hire interns.

135

3 years ago

A tool for tracking and managing travel expenses. They’re targeting the B2B space, where travel expenses can get expensive and difficult to track.

125

3 years ago

A B2B company that helps data scientists “analyse complex data and help data scientists solve difficult problems”.

121

3 years ago

A team of data-driven analysts that helps colleges and universities answer difficult questions about their data.

121

2 years ago

With the ability to take stock of all the different tools and platforms that a team uses, it’s difficult to create a shared vision. Bopp is a platform that helps companies set up a shared vision around their tools.

102

8 months ago

A startup selling a software solution for companies to manage the difficulty of cross-border payments.

97

2 years ago

A “non-traditional” startup that focuses on the aftermarket. It focuses on a market that’s typically difficult to reach because of the need for a deeper understanding of a customer’s business and needs.

96

1 year ago

The problem with a lot of online shopping apps is that they are difficult to find, with users sometimes having to search for it. They want to change that by building a one-stop shopping app for finding anything from a local store to a nearby restaurant.

87

1 year ago

A startup that aims to solve the problem of application security, which is “currently one of the most difficult and costly problems to solve for SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses).”

79

2 years ago

A company that makes a computer with a touchscreen for people who have difficulty with a mouse. The touchscreen operates in a similar way to a touchscreen phone, with a stylus for more precise input.

78

1 year ago

Startups that fit into multiple categories, where founders have multiple roles — co-founder, CEO, CTO and CIO, or just the founder and CTO — are a bit more common today, but still rare. The challenge is that it can be difficult to measure how much of the company’s sales and profit go to the founder. Here’s a partial list of startups that fit into that category:

74

1 year ago

A startup that uses an algorithm to match companies to engineers based on their degree of difficulty.

71

1 year ago

A video game that helps train children’s attention spans, by giving them a chance to master increasingly difficult levels

70

2 years ago

The company’s vision is to make the process of creating a video game “as simple as making a PowerPoint presentation”. It wants to make video game creation accessible to non-programmers, and today’s software for that is too difficult to use.

69

1 year ago

Online training platform that builds on the idea that many different companies and organizations would like to train their employees and customers on the same topic and that it is difficult and expensive to purchase and maintain all these training materials. The company creates a marketplace of these courses and delivers them to people, allowing them to take the training on-the-go.

68

1 year ago

This startup is trying to figure out how to make a good clickable button, which has proven to be a difficult task.

67

1 year ago

A platform that lets you build custom quizzes, sortable by question difficulty, time and topic.

67

1 year ago

This startup’s founders say that the federal government’s tax-reporting process is too complex and that it’s difficult for people to pay their taxes. They’re building a simple, modern, easy-to-use tool that they hope will be used by millions of people.

66

1 year ago

A startup that helps build more affordable, modular homes in places that have historically been difficult to build. The company has built affordable housing as part of the Green City Solutions program in Philadelphia.

63

2 years ago

This is a company that is trying to connect people with their local businesses, which can be a difficult task. Local businesses may not know how to reach out to a prospective customer, and customers may not know where to begin looking for a local business. The company is working with businesses to send out personalized emails to those customers, so that the business can reach out to the local customers.

62

11 months ago

A $10/month service that helps people with financial difficulties.

62

1 year ago

A platform that allows people to find, hire and pay for services, like a TaskRabbit, but for people who are trying to deal with personal difficulties.

59

1 year ago

An API for Facebook and Twitter data. The startup is building out its API based on the fact that Facebook and Twitter are constantly changing how they operate, and that their APIs are often difficult to use.

56

1 year ago

This startup aims to bring access to credit to the estimated 2 billion people without it. In countries that have traditionally had difficulty accessing credit, the startup has been able to build a credit scoring model, and is now looking to bring that model to places with more need.

54

6 months ago

The startup’s starting point is that online dating is difficult for introverts. Introverts, however, are 25% more likely to find love online, and Intro.me wants to help them do just that.

53

1 year ago

The company’s CEO, Will Clark, is a former member of the U.S. Air Force and a former personal trainer, and the company’s co-founders are also experienced entrepreneurs. The company, which launched in 2013, is looking to address a major issue in the fitness industry: it’s difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to get fit.

50

1 year ago

A startup that helps people who have difficulty losing weight by giving them a recipe and a shopping list to make all of their meals ahead of time. People can choose which recipes to follow, and all the ingredients and their costs are included.

46

11 months ago

A company that provides professional, non-intrusive security service to protect privileged accounts. It’s a B2B business, with the CEO saying that it’s difficult to get security services for large companies. HotPass was started by former CIA and NSA employees to provide more secure alternatives to encryption.

43

1 year ago

An easier, more cost effective way to manage family health records, which are usually stored in a single place and difficult to find. HealthMap is building a searchable database that allows you to look up information about family members who have certain conditions.

38

5 months ago

A company that helps people who are on the autism spectrum communicate their needs more effectively. It’s a SaaS platform that helps people, who often have difficulty expressing themselves, to communicate their needs.

29

3 months ago

A platform that connects freelancers with businesses that need a quick custom made logo, a high-end t-shirt, or a difficult to print brochure or flyer.

25

3 months ago

Housing data from the US Census Bureau is often very difficult to access and analyze. That’s where this startup comes in.

22

14 days ago

A startup that seeks to “bring greater transparency to the pharmacy industry” by helping pharmacies accurately fill prescriptions. The business is growing quickly as the business solves for a real pain point in an industry that’s historically been difficult to track.

12

3 years ago

Idea: Fake doesn’t want to be your go-to messaging app. The app is meant to make it more difficult for people to read your messages and for companies to

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3 years ago

A startup that helps people learn how to play guitar by memorizing songs You will be able to search for songs that you would like to learn and narrow down the results based on difficulty, genre, and

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Difficult Startup Ideas

A startup that helps people with difficult to manage health conditions (diabetes, heart conditions, etc) and helps them to manage their health conditions with reminders to take medicine, etc

A platform for medical transcriptionists to get paid for their services, which are in high demand but difficult to find.

A startup that helps students of any age who are having difficulty in school to get tutoring

A company that helps people who are looking to move to another country and get a job. They have built a digital platform for both companies and individuals to find out how difficult it would be to get a job in a foreign country.

A company that builds an ad platform for health care. It’s a market estimated to be worth $25 billion in the US, but is so closely regulated that it’s difficult to do business there.

The startup is building a system that lets restaurant operators do inventory management automatically, which is difficult because of the high number of variables involved in managing inventory, from the type of food to how it’s portioned and stored.

New York - New York City is home to the largest financial district in the world, but the cost of living for interns in this area is so high that it’s difficult for companies to entice young talent to stay. This startup, known as Give, wants to make it easier for companies to hire interns.

A tool for tracking and managing travel expenses. They’re targeting the B2B space, where travel expenses can get expensive and difficult to track.

A B2B company that helps data scientists “analyse complex data and help data scientists solve difficult problems”.

A team of data-driven analysts that helps colleges and universities answer difficult questions about their data.

With the ability to take stock of all the different tools and platforms that a team uses, it’s difficult to create a shared vision. Bopp is a platform that helps companies set up a shared vision around their tools.

A startup selling a software solution for companies to manage the difficulty of cross-border payments.

A “non-traditional” startup that focuses on the aftermarket. It focuses on a market that’s typically difficult to reach because of the need for a deeper understanding of a customer’s business and needs.

The problem with a lot of online shopping apps is that they are difficult to find, with users sometimes having to search for it. They want to change that by building a one-stop shopping app for finding anything from a local store to a nearby restaurant.

A startup that aims to solve the problem of application security, which is “currently one of the most difficult and costly problems to solve for SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses).”

A company that makes a computer with a touchscreen for people who have difficulty with a mouse. The touchscreen operates in a similar way to a touchscreen phone, with a stylus for more precise input.

A startup that uses an algorithm to match companies to engineers based on their degree of difficulty.

A video game that helps train children’s attention spans, by giving them a chance to master increasingly difficult levels

The company’s vision is to make the process of creating a video game “as simple as making a PowerPoint presentation”. It wants to make video game creation accessible to non-programmers, and today’s software for that is too difficult to use.

This startup is trying to figure out how to make a good clickable button, which has proven to be a difficult task.

A platform that lets you build custom quizzes, sortable by question difficulty, time and topic.

This startup’s founders say that the federal government’s tax-reporting process is too complex and that it’s difficult for people to pay their taxes. They’re building a simple, modern, easy-to-use tool that they hope will be used by millions of people.

A startup that helps build more affordable, modular homes in places that have historically been difficult to build. The company has built affordable housing as part of the Green City Solutions program in Philadelphia.

A $10/month service that helps people with financial difficulties.

A platform that allows people to find, hire and pay for services, like a TaskRabbit, but for people who are trying to deal with personal difficulties.

An API for Facebook and Twitter data. The startup is building out its API based on the fact that Facebook and Twitter are constantly changing how they operate, and that their APIs are often difficult to use.

This startup aims to bring access to credit to the estimated 2 billion people without it. In countries that have traditionally had difficulty accessing credit, the startup has been able to build a credit scoring model, and is now looking to bring that model to places with more need.

The startup’s starting point is that online dating is difficult for introverts. Introverts, however, are 25% more likely to find love online, and Intro.me wants to help them do just that.

A startup that helps people who have difficulty losing weight by giving them a recipe and a shopping list to make all of their meals ahead of time. People can choose which recipes to follow, and all the ingredients and their costs are included.

An easier, more cost effective way to manage family health records, which are usually stored in a single place and difficult to find. HealthMap is building a searchable database that allows you to look up information about family members who have certain conditions.

A company that helps people who are on the autism spectrum communicate their needs more effectively. It’s a SaaS platform that helps people, who often have difficulty expressing themselves, to communicate their needs.

A platform that connects freelancers with businesses that need a quick custom made logo, a high-end t-shirt, or a difficult to print brochure or flyer.

Housing data from the US Census Bureau is often very difficult to access and analyze. That’s where this startup comes in.

A startup that seeks to “bring greater transparency to the pharmacy industry” by helping pharmacies accurately fill prescriptions. The business is growing quickly as the business solves for a real pain point in an industry that’s historically been difficult to track.

Idea: Fake doesn’t want to be your go-to messaging app. The app is meant to make it more difficult for people to read your messages and for companies to

A startup that helps people learn how to play guitar by memorizing songs You will be able to search for songs that you would like to learn and narrow down the results based on difficulty, genre, and