Today Startup Ideas

2 years ago

M-KOPA is a tool allowing developers to create their own specialized hardware. The founders say the company has sold $4M worth of hardware over the last two years, though they’ve only launched on Kickstarter today.

284

2 years ago

An online platform for managing B2B relationships, today the company provides a dashboard for sales and marketing teams to manage customer relationships.

230

3 years ago

A startup that curates and shares the very best videos on the web, with a focus on “what’s worth watching today.”

173

3 years ago

A startup that helps freelancers get paid up front, then moves that money to a business account if they don’t get enough gigs booked in a given period of time. Today it has paying customers in the US, UK, and Australia, and is profitable.

157

3 years ago

A sustainability project that uses IoT sensors to monitor the environment. There are over 1 billion sensors in use today, but they’re not being used to their full potential.

145

3 years ago

It’s a digital calendar that allows users to have a “someday” calendar in addition to a “today” calendar. The startup wants to help people plan more efficiently.

140

3 years ago

Gives entrepreneurs and startups easy access to the hardware they need to build and run their business. Founded by a former Microsoft engineer, the company has raised $2.5M and is launching in beta today.

138

3 years ago

A digital tool for borrowing money from friends and family for small business purchases. The current model is still simple: the startup is working to launch an app that lets you borrow money in seconds from your friends and family. The company has raised a seed round, and is launching today

136

3 years ago

This company, which is now a subsidiary of software giant IBM, is trying to make enterprise software simpler for smaller organizations. They have a new product called “Navigator”, which is designed to help organizations of all sizes (from a startup with 3 people to a Fortune 100 company) navigate the complex technology stack they have today.

129

2 years ago

A simple solution that allows people to track and pay for their electricity, gas, and water bills. The company wants to make paying bills easier than it is today and aims to cut costs for customers as a result.

128

3 years ago

A company that wants to make self-driving cars into a commodity product. They want to offer the same experience to driverless cars that people use in cars today.

123

1 year ago

A digital voice assistant, or digital assistant, that can be used by anyone to enter tasks, appointments and a slew of other information. A digital assistant is a common consumer feature on many of the most popular smart speakers today.

123

2 years ago

"It’s in the works," said Guy Kawasaki, a venture capitalist who has invested in the company. "We’re thinking about a lot of things that I can’t talk about today."

121

2 years ago

A startup for people to sell stuff, and a way to help the buyers and sellers find each other. A similar marketplace exists today called eCohort, which launched in March of 2019.

114

2 years ago

A new way for entrepreneurs to get funding. The startup, which launches today, wants to give entrepreneurs access to a “constant stream of regular, predictable investments”.

114

3 years ago

A startup that offers a mobile app that can be used to recruit and manage talent in the same way that LinkedIn, Glassdoor and Indeed do today.

111

2 years ago

Shoppers are no longer satisfied with the bulky, slow, and expensive payment options available today. Shift wants to provide the option of paying with cash at local stores.

107

2 years ago

A startup that helps businesses monitor and manage their social media profiles, which they say is a $2B market today.

87

8 months ago

A few years ago, this company built a platform for people who owned a condo to monitor and manage their properties. Today, it’s built a platform for people to manage and coordinate renovations.

85

2 years ago

This is an effort to build a social network around the "sharing economy" that "provides more complete information related to people and homes" on the sharing economy than exists anywhere today.

76

7 months ago

A place for home cooks to share their recipes and get feedback. The company has built a community of chefs and foodies who are making the recipes and giving feedback. Today, the company has over 10,000 recipes on hand, and its users are writing in at a rate of 10 recipes per day.

76

1 year ago

A real-time scheduling software for restaurants. It aims to replace the clunky, paper-based scheduling systems that exist today, and allow restaurants to manage wait staff, kitchen schedules and more.

74

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:

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1 year ago

Ransomware is a growing problem for businesses today. ReProtect is a kind of ransomware that helps companies fight back by creating a fake version of their own software. It looks to the user like a legitimate version of the app, and will only encrypt the data on the company’s servers if the user pays a fee.

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

A startup that helps people reduce their phone bills. It’s being announced today at the YC Demo Day.

68

3 years ago

Idea: A software company that wants to build project management applications that are smarter and easier to use than what’s available today

67

1 year ago

Companies today have huge backlogs of social and community management needs that are “outside the scope of their core competencies”

66

1 year ago

As of today, one of the most popular tools for building website themes is WordPress. The startup is looking to take that power of customization and commoditization to the mobile web.

64

1 year ago

A tool for customers to pay for products and services on their phones, with built-in barcode scanning. Today the company has over 400,000 users and has seen similar traction to Square, though older.

63

1 year ago

A company that helps small retailers and restaurants in the UK sell online. They’re working with around 1,000+ merchants today.

62

1 year ago

A “social network for real estate professionals” which today serves more than 300,000 professionals.

59

1 year ago

Twelve months ago, the founders of this startup were trying to find a better way to communicate with their patients. Today they’re launching a digital health platform that lets providers manage patient records, schedule appointments, and communicate with patients.

58

1 year ago

A tool that makes it easier for poll workers to navigate voting machines on Election Day. The startup is looking to replace the paper ballots used today with digital ones allowing for machine-based auditing.

51

1 year ago

A free service that helps companies plan and execute their business in the most time-efficient manner possible. The company today is focused on using machine learning to find the best timewise schedule for a project.

50

1 year ago

This is a startup that builds a platform for on-demand, pre-packaged medical appointments. Today the startup has about 4,000 patients, with a team of five. It wants to get to $1M in revenue next year.

47

11 months ago

In 2015, the foundation of the startup was a brief strategic meeting between a team of people with a shared vision of creating a new and better way to track and support youth development. Today, they’re a nonprofit with a mission to help youth reduce barriers and realize their full potential.

43

1 year ago

A startup that aims to bring retail and commerce to the masses by making the user experience designed with sight and sound in mind. The startup is working towards building a retail experience that’s designed to be more immediate and immersive than the stuff we’re used to today.

41

8 months ago

A B2B company called Fuse360 helps small businesses, including restaurants, and property managers buy and manage their insurance policies through a single platform. Fuse360 aims to make the insurance purchase process simpler and cheaper than it is today.

41

9 months ago

A lot of companies in the U.S. don’t provide their employees with benefits today, but that’s starting to change. Requip is a company that helps employers provide benefits for employees, so they can focus on growing the business.

38

4 months ago

People are more open to trying things like this today, but what’s stopping other companies from building these tools in-house

38

11 months ago

A startup in San Francisco that wants to help you track your data on your phone, through a “personal dashboard” that helps you understand and use data to improve your health. The startup’s primary goal is to build an app that will help people decide what medical procedures they want to have done today and in the future, and then be able to track the status of those procedures through an app.

36

6 months ago

A new platform for e-commerce businesses to have a “single view” of all of their product inventory. Today most merchants use different platforms to manage multiple inventory systems, and this new solution will allow them to consolidate all of those systems on one platform.

34

5 months ago

For the last 40 years, a startup without a clear exit strategy has been a rare breed. But today, one in five startups are bootstrapped, and it’s become a viable strategy for founders, who argue that if you find a product that people love, you can always charge for it and if it works, you won’t need to raise funding. Spredfast wants to make this the norm.

32

5 months ago

A company that allows companies to advertise on their own websites. The company wants to be the one to take over some of the ad tech functions that exist today, so it can build out a new ad platform.

30

3 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easy to start and run a non-profit organization. The company is launching its first product today.

26

3 months ago

The company is building a new kind of user interface that is built around a concept called "pull-to-refresh". The idea is that you are able to pull down the keyboard to refresh the content and pull it back up to go back to the previous page. This is one of the biggest innovations in the startup space today.

24

2 months ago

In the old days of e-commerce, a customer might get a shipping confirmation and an email with a tracking number a few days after placing a order. But in today’s online economy, with e-commerce orders varying from minutes to hours, the e-commerce customer doesn’t necessarily get a clear sense of how much time they have before their order is delivered.

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3 months ago

A “social media for business”, “the first social media for small businesses”. As of today, the company has over 150,000 businesses on the platform.

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Today Startup Ideas

M-KOPA is a tool allowing developers to create their own specialized hardware. The founders say the company has sold $4M worth of hardware over the last two years, though they’ve only launched on Kickstarter today.

An online platform for managing B2B relationships, today the company provides a dashboard for sales and marketing teams to manage customer relationships.

A startup that curates and shares the very best videos on the web, with a focus on “what’s worth watching today.”

A startup that helps freelancers get paid up front, then moves that money to a business account if they don’t get enough gigs booked in a given period of time. Today it has paying customers in the US, UK, and Australia, and is profitable.

A sustainability project that uses IoT sensors to monitor the environment. There are over 1 billion sensors in use today, but they’re not being used to their full potential.

It’s a digital calendar that allows users to have a “someday” calendar in addition to a “today” calendar. The startup wants to help people plan more efficiently.

Gives entrepreneurs and startups easy access to the hardware they need to build and run their business. Founded by a former Microsoft engineer, the company has raised $2.5M and is launching in beta today.

A digital tool for borrowing money from friends and family for small business purchases. The current model is still simple: the startup is working to launch an app that lets you borrow money in seconds from your friends and family. The company has raised a seed round, and is launching today

A simple solution that allows people to track and pay for their electricity, gas, and water bills. The company wants to make paying bills easier than it is today and aims to cut costs for customers as a result.

A company that wants to make self-driving cars into a commodity product. They want to offer the same experience to driverless cars that people use in cars today.

A digital voice assistant, or digital assistant, that can be used by anyone to enter tasks, appointments and a slew of other information. A digital assistant is a common consumer feature on many of the most popular smart speakers today.

"It’s in the works," said Guy Kawasaki, a venture capitalist who has invested in the company. "We’re thinking about a lot of things that I can’t talk about today."

A startup for people to sell stuff, and a way to help the buyers and sellers find each other. A similar marketplace exists today called eCohort, which launched in March of 2019.

A new way for entrepreneurs to get funding. The startup, which launches today, wants to give entrepreneurs access to a “constant stream of regular, predictable investments”.

A startup that offers a mobile app that can be used to recruit and manage talent in the same way that LinkedIn, Glassdoor and Indeed do today.

Shoppers are no longer satisfied with the bulky, slow, and expensive payment options available today. Shift wants to provide the option of paying with cash at local stores.

A startup that helps businesses monitor and manage their social media profiles, which they say is a $2B market today.

A few years ago, this company built a platform for people who owned a condo to monitor and manage their properties. Today, it’s built a platform for people to manage and coordinate renovations.

This is an effort to build a social network around the "sharing economy" that "provides more complete information related to people and homes" on the sharing economy than exists anywhere today.

A place for home cooks to share their recipes and get feedback. The company has built a community of chefs and foodies who are making the recipes and giving feedback. Today, the company has over 10,000 recipes on hand, and its users are writing in at a rate of 10 recipes per day.

A real-time scheduling software for restaurants. It aims to replace the clunky, paper-based scheduling systems that exist today, and allow restaurants to manage wait staff, kitchen schedules and more.

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.

A startup that helps people reduce their phone bills. It’s being announced today at the YC Demo Day.

Idea: A software company that wants to build project management applications that are smarter and easier to use than what’s available today

Companies today have huge backlogs of social and community management needs that are “outside the scope of their core competencies”

As of today, one of the most popular tools for building website themes is WordPress. The startup is looking to take that power of customization and commoditization to the mobile web.

A tool for customers to pay for products and services on their phones, with built-in barcode scanning. Today the company has over 400,000 users and has seen similar traction to Square, though older.

A company that helps small retailers and restaurants in the UK sell online. They’re working with around 1,000+ merchants today.

A “social network for real estate professionals” which today serves more than 300,000 professionals.

Twelve months ago, the founders of this startup were trying to find a better way to communicate with their patients. Today they’re launching a digital health platform that lets providers manage patient records, schedule appointments, and communicate with patients.

A tool that makes it easier for poll workers to navigate voting machines on Election Day. The startup is looking to replace the paper ballots used today with digital ones allowing for machine-based auditing.

A free service that helps companies plan and execute their business in the most time-efficient manner possible. The company today is focused on using machine learning to find the best timewise schedule for a project.

This is a startup that builds a platform for on-demand, pre-packaged medical appointments. Today the startup has about 4,000 patients, with a team of five. It wants to get to $1M in revenue next year.

In 2015, the foundation of the startup was a brief strategic meeting between a team of people with a shared vision of creating a new and better way to track and support youth development. Today, they’re a nonprofit with a mission to help youth reduce barriers and realize their full potential.

A startup that aims to bring retail and commerce to the masses by making the user experience designed with sight and sound in mind. The startup is working towards building a retail experience that’s designed to be more immediate and immersive than the stuff we’re used to today.

A B2B company called Fuse360 helps small businesses, including restaurants, and property managers buy and manage their insurance policies through a single platform. Fuse360 aims to make the insurance purchase process simpler and cheaper than it is today.

A lot of companies in the U.S. don’t provide their employees with benefits today, but that’s starting to change. Requip is a company that helps employers provide benefits for employees, so they can focus on growing the business.

People are more open to trying things like this today, but what’s stopping other companies from building these tools in-house

A new platform for e-commerce businesses to have a “single view” of all of their product inventory. Today most merchants use different platforms to manage multiple inventory systems, and this new solution will allow them to consolidate all of those systems on one platform.

A company that allows companies to advertise on their own websites. The company wants to be the one to take over some of the ad tech functions that exist today, so it can build out a new ad platform.

A startup that wants to make it easy to start and run a non-profit organization. The company is launching its first product today.

A “social media for business”, “the first social media for small businesses”. As of today, the company has over 150,000 businesses on the platform.