Topic Startup Ideas

3 years ago

A monthly subscription service that sends you an e-book on a topic you’ve selected every month. The company launched in December, and is signing up more than 50,000 new subscribers every month, the founder tells me.

253

3 years ago

A fake account that updates you on trending topics and stories that others are talking about, but are too boring or too niche to actually care about.

235

1 month ago

A startup that uses social engagement to measure how much time different topics and keywords are getting on social media.

229

2 years ago

A platform that builds communities around a topic through a series of articles.

211

3 years ago

An AI chatbot which answers questions on Quora, a question and answer site. It’s still early days for Quora’s bot, which answers around 1,000 questions a day on topics like “How to study” and “How to organize your life”.

175

3 years ago

A tool that analyzes popular Twitter hashtags to show trends on trending topics.

175

3 years ago

A “human-powered” startup that helps people to organize tasks and conversations around a particular topic.

174

2 years ago

A tool for connecting people with a shared interest in a particular topic

157

3 years ago

A tool for helping people collaborate and communicate via text, email, and phone. The startup’s product is a Slack chatbot that helps users talk about topics, track conversations, set reminders, and so forth.

155

2 years ago

A community where you can ask a curated team of experts for advice on a particular topic.

154

3 years ago

A messaging app that allows users to set up channels for different topics of discussion, including “buddy” channels.

153

1 year ago

Education for new dads and dads-to-be on topics like sleep and parenting.

145

3 years ago

An email app that lets you set up alerts for specific topics, and lets you get email updates from a growing number of organizations including the White House.

139

3 years ago

A browser-based tool that helps users easily create “quizzes” to test their knowledge of a topic they’re interested in.

135

2 years ago

A web-based video platform for providing short-form, on-demand “how to” guides for small businesses. The idea is that users can subscribe to specific topics, such as ‘how to sell on eBay’ and then be notified when a new video is available.

126

3 years ago

This startup’s “intelligent” bot helps branded social media users come up with content ideas. It then recommends a topic for followers to post on the social media platform.

121

3 years ago

A search engine focused on finding the most relevant articles about a particular topic. The startup is building the search around data from more than 190 million sources across the web. It was recently featured on the HBO show Silicon Valley.

115

2 years ago

A digital platform that allows you to explore and research topics of your interest by browsing and sharing user-created content.

110

2 years ago

A platform that allows users to share photos, videos, and other multimedia in a single place, and search for content by topic.

109

1 year ago

Meet-up-based social networks for people interested in a topic.

105

2 years ago

A startup that lists the best deals on a given topic, for example, “The best pizza in San Francisco”

104

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help journalists write better. It’s best for longer writing, and it lets you know which writing styles and topics are best for you.

101

11 months ago

A startup that publishes and sells books, publishing three a month on topics like business and finance.

99

1 month ago

A content management system for teams that want to get their content all in one place but don’t want to build it themselves. It’s a visual platform, so you can drag and drop content onto topics.

87

2 years ago

A social network where users can ask and answer questions about various topics like dating, fashion, and fitness.

85

2 years ago

A platform that engages users with content that’s relevant to them, whether they’re fans of an artist or a topic they’re researching. It’s a software-based approach to human curation.

84

2 years ago

Working with a team at the University of Pennsylvania, this startup is building a way for companies to create personal journals in which they write and share their thoughts about different topics. The startup is also working with scientists to help people record their medical histories.

83

1 year ago

A publisher of educational videos on topics like “how to become a leader”, “how to solve common problems”, and “how to be confident”. The startup is building a video library that can be rented for $50 or subscribed to per month.

83

8 months ago

A company that hopes to use AI to coin the most relevant and useful information for a person on any given topic.

80

1 year ago

The startup is looking to provide Internet-wide offline access to a library of books and ebooks. Interested users can sign up for free, download the app, and choose which books to download. You can create “stacks” of books based on topics, or “curated stacks” based on which books you think you’ll be interested in.

72

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

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

67

1 year ago

A startup that builds a digital curriculum for kids on topics like computer science, programming, and robotics.

67

1 year ago

A platform to create, operate, and scale an online survey to gather information on a topic. The Startup has launched a beta in Boston and plans to launch in NYC for the fall.

66

1 year ago

A group messaging app that uses artificial intelligence to make group calls more efficient, offering suggestions on topics to discuss. It’s currently available in beta.

65

1 year ago

This startup aims to make it easier for people to have a conversation about money with friends and family. The company connects friends and family for advice about finances and other topics.

65

1 year ago

an app that helps people connect with the people who sign their social media posts with the hashtag “#BOOM.” It’s for people who want to bring attention to the topics they care about and make a name for themselves in the process.

64

1 year ago

A matchmaking website that matches people up based on their shared interest in the same topics

63

1 year ago

A startup that helps users to find and share the best articles on a certain topic, as well as get notified when new articles come out.

63

1 year ago

A company that provides consultant services to companies in need of help getting their employees trained on topics like cyber security or diversity.

63

3 years ago

A startup that pays people to do research on topics they are interested in which is then written up into a paper and sold to students

58

3 years ago

Idea: Personality-based dating app that predicts relationship compatibility It works by asking questions on a sliding scale of topics like religion, politics, sports, and more

58

9 months ago

A new way to read news that has been personalized to your topic interests, and which the company says is “faster and more interactive” than Facebook.

57

1 year ago

A startup that helps companies manage the diversity and inclusion of their workforce by connecting people with a shared interest in a particular topic.

56

11 months ago

A platform for creating and connecting to groups of people who are passionate about a particular topic, like education or business. The B2B startup is looking to build a platform for teachers, students, and workers to collaborate and get better at their skills.

56

2 years ago

A startup that posts interesting things to read in a certain category, or a tough topic like “How to be a good parent” with articles like “How to get your kid to go to bed.”

51

2 years ago

A company that makes “online courses for learning,” through which they claim to offer more material than traditional universities. They offer more than 1,000 courses on topics like machine learning, data science, and more.

51

1 year ago

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51

11 months ago

This company is building a platform that allows people to create their own online courses on topics they’re interested in, like learning how to give a speech or improve their english.

50

1 year ago

This startup is building a library of over 200,000 news articles, covering all kinds of topics, including elections and sports.

49

1 year ago

A startup that provides data-driven content on various topics like health and fitness, travel, food, and fashion.

47

1 year ago

A startup that curates, stores and cross-sells expert knowledge on a single topic. It’s a website that also has a mobile version that curates and cross-sells expert knowledge on a single topic with a focus on finance.

47

1 year ago

A social network for patient-centered healthcare, enabling patients to share their experiences and opinions on a variety of healthcare topics and compare experiences with others, and giving them a way to ask questions of their care providers.

45

11 months ago

A real-time social network for collaborative content. It’s a video-based platform where users can choose what content to share via comments, and users can join groups for specific topics.

40

10 months ago

Essentially, a personal dating app with the goal of creating a more systematic, less chaotic way of matching people up. Potential users include people who have a special interest in a specific topic and want to find like-minded people.

39

2 months ago

A startup that is building a proprietary platform to help companies create a “community of communities” that communicates with each other about the same topic.

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

A tool that helps people find the best local and web-based resources for a given topic. Users can search for tips, videos, and other content.

23

3 months ago

A Slack-like platform that allows teams to have discussions about work-related topics in real-time, with the ability to post or delete comments. The startup is the brainchild of two former Facebook engineers and is building out a platform for media companies, advertisers, and other groups to use.

19

25 days ago

A startup that connects users to information on a given topic, helping users find and analyze information about a given topic, and then builds tools to help users understand and analyze that information. An example of this is Sports Canuck, which allows users to see what fans of specific teams are saying across Twitter and Facebook.

16

26 days ago

A video-sharing app that serves as a platform for a series of videos on the same topic. Content is generated by a network of thousands of contributors and curated by their editorial staff.

15

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Topic Startup Ideas

A monthly subscription service that sends you an e-book on a topic you’ve selected every month. The company launched in December, and is signing up more than 50,000 new subscribers every month, the founder tells me.

A fake account that updates you on trending topics and stories that others are talking about, but are too boring or too niche to actually care about.

A startup that uses social engagement to measure how much time different topics and keywords are getting on social media.

A platform that builds communities around a topic through a series of articles.

An AI chatbot which answers questions on Quora, a question and answer site. It’s still early days for Quora’s bot, which answers around 1,000 questions a day on topics like “How to study” and “How to organize your life”.

A tool that analyzes popular Twitter hashtags to show trends on trending topics.

A “human-powered” startup that helps people to organize tasks and conversations around a particular topic.

A tool for connecting people with a shared interest in a particular topic

A tool for helping people collaborate and communicate via text, email, and phone. The startup’s product is a Slack chatbot that helps users talk about topics, track conversations, set reminders, and so forth.

A community where you can ask a curated team of experts for advice on a particular topic.

A messaging app that allows users to set up channels for different topics of discussion, including “buddy” channels.

Education for new dads and dads-to-be on topics like sleep and parenting.

An email app that lets you set up alerts for specific topics, and lets you get email updates from a growing number of organizations including the White House.

A browser-based tool that helps users easily create “quizzes” to test their knowledge of a topic they’re interested in.

A web-based video platform for providing short-form, on-demand “how to” guides for small businesses. The idea is that users can subscribe to specific topics, such as ‘how to sell on eBay’ and then be notified when a new video is available.

This startup’s “intelligent” bot helps branded social media users come up with content ideas. It then recommends a topic for followers to post on the social media platform.

A search engine focused on finding the most relevant articles about a particular topic. The startup is building the search around data from more than 190 million sources across the web. It was recently featured on the HBO show Silicon Valley.

A digital platform that allows you to explore and research topics of your interest by browsing and sharing user-created content.

A platform that allows users to share photos, videos, and other multimedia in a single place, and search for content by topic.

Meet-up-based social networks for people interested in a topic.

A startup that lists the best deals on a given topic, for example, “The best pizza in San Francisco”

This startup is building a platform to help journalists write better. It’s best for longer writing, and it lets you know which writing styles and topics are best for you.

A startup that publishes and sells books, publishing three a month on topics like business and finance.

A content management system for teams that want to get their content all in one place but don’t want to build it themselves. It’s a visual platform, so you can drag and drop content onto topics.

A social network where users can ask and answer questions about various topics like dating, fashion, and fitness.

A platform that engages users with content that’s relevant to them, whether they’re fans of an artist or a topic they’re researching. It’s a software-based approach to human curation.

Working with a team at the University of Pennsylvania, this startup is building a way for companies to create personal journals in which they write and share their thoughts about different topics. The startup is also working with scientists to help people record their medical histories.

A publisher of educational videos on topics like “how to become a leader”, “how to solve common problems”, and “how to be confident”. The startup is building a video library that can be rented for $50 or subscribed to per month.

A company that hopes to use AI to coin the most relevant and useful information for a person on any given topic.

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

A startup that builds a digital curriculum for kids on topics like computer science, programming, and robotics.

A platform to create, operate, and scale an online survey to gather information on a topic. The Startup has launched a beta in Boston and plans to launch in NYC for the fall.

A group messaging app that uses artificial intelligence to make group calls more efficient, offering suggestions on topics to discuss. It’s currently available in beta.

This startup aims to make it easier for people to have a conversation about money with friends and family. The company connects friends and family for advice about finances and other topics.

an app that helps people connect with the people who sign their social media posts with the hashtag “#BOOM.” It’s for people who want to bring attention to the topics they care about and make a name for themselves in the process.

A matchmaking website that matches people up based on their shared interest in the same topics

A startup that helps users to find and share the best articles on a certain topic, as well as get notified when new articles come out.

A company that provides consultant services to companies in need of help getting their employees trained on topics like cyber security or diversity.

A startup that pays people to do research on topics they are interested in which is then written up into a paper and sold to students

Idea: Personality-based dating app that predicts relationship compatibility It works by asking questions on a sliding scale of topics like religion, politics, sports, and more

A new way to read news that has been personalized to your topic interests, and which the company says is “faster and more interactive” than Facebook.

A startup that helps companies manage the diversity and inclusion of their workforce by connecting people with a shared interest in a particular topic.

A platform for creating and connecting to groups of people who are passionate about a particular topic, like education or business. The B2B startup is looking to build a platform for teachers, students, and workers to collaborate and get better at their skills.

A startup that posts interesting things to read in a certain category, or a tough topic like “How to be a good parent” with articles like “How to get your kid to go to bed.”

A company that makes “online courses for learning,” through which they claim to offer more material than traditional universities. They offer more than 1,000 courses on topics like machine learning, data science, and more.

This company is building a platform that allows people to create their own online courses on topics they’re interested in, like learning how to give a speech or improve their english.

This startup is building a library of over 200,000 news articles, covering all kinds of topics, including elections and sports.

A startup that provides data-driven content on various topics like health and fitness, travel, food, and fashion.

A startup that curates, stores and cross-sells expert knowledge on a single topic. It’s a website that also has a mobile version that curates and cross-sells expert knowledge on a single topic with a focus on finance.

A social network for patient-centered healthcare, enabling patients to share their experiences and opinions on a variety of healthcare topics and compare experiences with others, and giving them a way to ask questions of their care providers.

A real-time social network for collaborative content. It’s a video-based platform where users can choose what content to share via comments, and users can join groups for specific topics.

Essentially, a personal dating app with the goal of creating a more systematic, less chaotic way of matching people up. Potential users include people who have a special interest in a specific topic and want to find like-minded people.

A startup that is building a proprietary platform to help companies create a “community of communities” that communicates with each other about the same topic.

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.

A tool that helps people find the best local and web-based resources for a given topic. Users can search for tips, videos, and other content.

A Slack-like platform that allows teams to have discussions about work-related topics in real-time, with the ability to post or delete comments. The startup is the brainchild of two former Facebook engineers and is building out a platform for media companies, advertisers, and other groups to use.

A video-sharing app that serves as a platform for a series of videos on the same topic. Content is generated by a network of thousands of contributors and curated by their editorial staff.