Useful Startup Ideas

1 year ago

A platform where people can create a profile and upload photos of themselves to be rated by other users. The site is mostly for fun at this point, but it could be a useful tool for dating.

151

2 years ago

Meetup is a platform for people to meet up in person and interact with each other. It's especially useful for groups that have members spread across different cities or different countries.

134

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform that helps companies deliver more useful customer service by automating the back and forth between a company and a customer.

130

2 years ago

Collaborating with organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank, Geotime provides demographic, economic, and climate data in a user-friendly way that’s useful for businesses.

124

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform for sharing pictures of food. It’s simple and turns the act of eating into a social activity. It’s a way to get people together around food and helps businesses promote their products in a way that’s both fun and useful.

124

2 years ago

A startup that creates a way to share useful content from a company’s public site with potential customers.

123

2 years ago

A company that helps developers use machine learning to help turn apps that are live right now into future-proofed and useful apps. The company’s software is meant to help developers avoid common pitfalls when building apps, like forgetting to correctly define dates and times.

120

2 years ago

A startup that helps people find and book flights around the world. "We're not trying to be a travel booking site but more a package." The platform lets users see prices and deals from a variety of airlines, which is useful for travelers.

117

2 years ago

Amazon Alexa has invaded every household in the US. The company wants to make the device even more useful, by adding a voice-controlled interface for apps.

116

2 years ago

The startup is building a platform for genomics data that is both more accessible, and more useful in the long run than other existing options. They are digitizing research from thousands of articles to make their platform the definitive source for scientific information.

115

2 years ago

A tool for tracking and analyzing an employee’s travel (could be useful for HR to track which employees are spending all their time flying somewhere instead of working).

114

2 years ago

A startup that helps users organize their to-do list in a manner that’s most useful to them. It’s like a digital planner, but it also handles things like reminding you of deadlines and counting down the days until a big event.

112

2 years ago

A company that wants to provide a library of useful software for developers. They recently raised $500,000.

110

2 years ago

A drone startup that aims to make drones as useful as smartphones. The company is building a drone that can be mounted on a smartphone and used for a variety of uses, from viewing property to capturing video.

97

2 years ago

This startup is building a digital revolution in the world of trash. Trash2Use converts waste into useful products, and gives you the opportunity to pay for the items you use.

92

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies explore their data across different data sources, with the goal of extracting the useful data buried in the data.

91

2 years ago

A platform that allows teams to manage their workflows collaboratively. The team is focused on making it useful for ride sharing companies and other companies that work with multiple contractors.

88

2 years ago

A startup that is trying to make travel apps more useful, by helping you find and book housing, food, and activities.

85

2 years ago

A grocery delivery business in the UK. Postmates offers services like same-day grocery delivery, which is especially useful to people living in urban environments where it’s hard to get to grocery stores.

84

1 year ago

A company that claims to make the barcode into a more useful tool, making it possible to track things like copies, subscriptions, and more.

81

2 years ago

The founders say their startup is building a more useful version of the Skype-like messaging platform Slack. Businesses use the platform to send documents or share information.

77

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.

75

1 year ago

An offering that gives e-commerce businesses a way to track orders, which is particularly useful for online retailers in China and India.

72

1 year ago

A startup that wants to build a cloud storage service that’s actually useful. The company wants to build a storage system that’s useful for organizations, not just consumers.

71

2 years ago

A SaaS business that allows businesses to build their own branded, custom, branded data that’s meant to be more useful than competitor data.

69

1 year ago

A web-based tool to help people plan their financial goals. It’s especially useful for people without an advisor, and uses machine learning to predict where individuals are on the financial spectrum.

69

1 year ago

The company is working on building an AI-powered chatbot that can sort through all your different college degrees and track your progress. The idea is that college degrees can be tracked in a way that makes them useful for future employers or graduate school applications.

68

1 year ago

A project management app for startups, meant to be particularly useful in the digital sector.

67

2 years ago

The idea is to build a platform that makes it easier to manage and collaborate on Excel spreadsheets, which would be useful for people working on projects with a lot of data that they need to send around.

66

1 month ago

A company that uses AI to analyze and predict customer behavior which can be used to improve the company’s products and make them more useful.

62

1 year ago

A platform to help small businesses with accounting. They’re focused on helping small businesses with accounting, but they say they can be useful for larger businesses.

57

2 months ago

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

57

1 year ago

This startup is building an app that sends a smart message to your employer when you leave your desk. It’s designed to remind companies of their hiring rules, but it could also be useful for workers to avoid calling out sick.

56

1 year ago

This startup wants to make Snapchat contacts more useful. Instead of just sending a snap to a contact, you can send them a message and have them view it.

55

1 year ago

A startup that allows users to track their monthly credit card payments and get useful tips to save money.

54

1 year ago

A startup that uses machine learning to help people learn more languages. The company says that “language learning is too useful not to be automated.”

53

1 year ago

A way to make screen recordings more useful by automatically attaching them to emails.

51

11 months ago

All of us have an old smartphone lying around somewhere, and we don't know what to do with it. The startup wants to aggregate all of those old devices into a platform to help make them useful again.

51

1 year ago

MakeMaps helps users create maps from scratch, or edit existing maps. It uses low-cost aerial mapping technology to create maps that are useful for a range of products.

50

11 months ago

This company is partnering with universities to provide an online solution to help students stay on top of their schoolwork. It’s especially useful for students in the US, where they say it’s hard to keep track of due dates.

49

1 year ago

A startup that wants to make telecommuting easier by giving employees access to meetings and other tools on their phones, which is especially useful for remote workers.

48

1 year ago

A virtual assistant app that helps users plan their day by suggesting what’s happening in their calendar, and other useful data.

48

1 year ago

A new type of hardware, the “fiducial marker,” which is meant to replace the fiducials in your product data, making it more accurate and useful.

45

1 year ago

A startup that helps businesses 'tell their story' in a way that's more useful for their customers.

40

10 months ago

A startup that converts Facebook to Twitter links. The startup helps people link their Facebook profile to their Twitter account, which can be a useful way to signal to followers that you’re not a spammer.

37

7 days ago

A startup for desktop users that lets you use a button to share an email or link to Slack or Facebook or Twitter or whatever. It’s useful for copy-pasting text without cluttering your browser with the URL.

32

5 months ago

A tech company that focuses on making the data in social media sites more useful, allowing businesses and consumers to see what their customers are saying, and help them build better products.

31

6 months ago

The startup is building a network of people who have a shared interest in creating things that are useful, beautiful and environmentally friendly. They have a purpose-built app for tracking and sharing ideas.

29

5 months ago

A knowledge-sharing app that helps users find useful information, like the best places to eat in their city or how to get to the airport.

25

3 months ago

A tool for finding and keeping up with the most useful and relevant content on the web. Envato’s editor-in-chief, Jellyvision, says it’s another tool for publishers to find and share the best content in a very crowded space. The startup is funded by the venture capital firm Ycombinator and aims to be a one-stop-shop for tools, content and plugins.

16

7 hours ago

A startup that helps teachers prepare for standardized tests. It’s particularly useful for those in rural schools, where teachers have to travel long distances to get to their classrooms.

2

2 years ago

A startup that sells beautiful and useful accessories and home decor

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Useful Startup Ideas

A platform where people can create a profile and upload photos of themselves to be rated by other users. The site is mostly for fun at this point, but it could be a useful tool for dating.

Meetup is a platform for people to meet up in person and interact with each other. It's especially useful for groups that have members spread across different cities or different countries.

This startup is building a platform that helps companies deliver more useful customer service by automating the back and forth between a company and a customer.

Collaborating with organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank, Geotime provides demographic, economic, and climate data in a user-friendly way that’s useful for businesses.

This startup is building a platform for sharing pictures of food. It’s simple and turns the act of eating into a social activity. It’s a way to get people together around food and helps businesses promote their products in a way that’s both fun and useful.

A startup that creates a way to share useful content from a company’s public site with potential customers.

A company that helps developers use machine learning to help turn apps that are live right now into future-proofed and useful apps. The company’s software is meant to help developers avoid common pitfalls when building apps, like forgetting to correctly define dates and times.

A startup that helps people find and book flights around the world. "We're not trying to be a travel booking site but more a package." The platform lets users see prices and deals from a variety of airlines, which is useful for travelers.

Amazon Alexa has invaded every household in the US. The company wants to make the device even more useful, by adding a voice-controlled interface for apps.

The startup is building a platform for genomics data that is both more accessible, and more useful in the long run than other existing options. They are digitizing research from thousands of articles to make their platform the definitive source for scientific information.

A tool for tracking and analyzing an employee’s travel (could be useful for HR to track which employees are spending all their time flying somewhere instead of working).

A startup that helps users organize their to-do list in a manner that’s most useful to them. It’s like a digital planner, but it also handles things like reminding you of deadlines and counting down the days until a big event.

A company that wants to provide a library of useful software for developers. They recently raised $500,000.

A drone startup that aims to make drones as useful as smartphones. The company is building a drone that can be mounted on a smartphone and used for a variety of uses, from viewing property to capturing video.

This startup is building a digital revolution in the world of trash. Trash2Use converts waste into useful products, and gives you the opportunity to pay for the items you use.

A startup that helps companies explore their data across different data sources, with the goal of extracting the useful data buried in the data.

A platform that allows teams to manage their workflows collaboratively. The team is focused on making it useful for ride sharing companies and other companies that work with multiple contractors.

A startup that is trying to make travel apps more useful, by helping you find and book housing, food, and activities.

A grocery delivery business in the UK. Postmates offers services like same-day grocery delivery, which is especially useful to people living in urban environments where it’s hard to get to grocery stores.

A company that claims to make the barcode into a more useful tool, making it possible to track things like copies, subscriptions, and more.

The founders say their startup is building a more useful version of the Skype-like messaging platform Slack. Businesses use the platform to send documents or share information.

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.

An offering that gives e-commerce businesses a way to track orders, which is particularly useful for online retailers in China and India.

A startup that wants to build a cloud storage service that’s actually useful. The company wants to build a storage system that’s useful for organizations, not just consumers.

A SaaS business that allows businesses to build their own branded, custom, branded data that’s meant to be more useful than competitor data.

A web-based tool to help people plan their financial goals. It’s especially useful for people without an advisor, and uses machine learning to predict where individuals are on the financial spectrum.

The company is working on building an AI-powered chatbot that can sort through all your different college degrees and track your progress. The idea is that college degrees can be tracked in a way that makes them useful for future employers or graduate school applications.

A project management app for startups, meant to be particularly useful in the digital sector.

The idea is to build a platform that makes it easier to manage and collaborate on Excel spreadsheets, which would be useful for people working on projects with a lot of data that they need to send around.

A company that uses AI to analyze and predict customer behavior which can be used to improve the company’s products and make them more useful.

A platform to help small businesses with accounting. They’re focused on helping small businesses with accounting, but they say they can be useful for larger businesses.

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

This startup is building an app that sends a smart message to your employer when you leave your desk. It’s designed to remind companies of their hiring rules, but it could also be useful for workers to avoid calling out sick.

This startup wants to make Snapchat contacts more useful. Instead of just sending a snap to a contact, you can send them a message and have them view it.

A startup that allows users to track their monthly credit card payments and get useful tips to save money.

A startup that uses machine learning to help people learn more languages. The company says that “language learning is too useful not to be automated.”

A way to make screen recordings more useful by automatically attaching them to emails.

All of us have an old smartphone lying around somewhere, and we don't know what to do with it. The startup wants to aggregate all of those old devices into a platform to help make them useful again.

MakeMaps helps users create maps from scratch, or edit existing maps. It uses low-cost aerial mapping technology to create maps that are useful for a range of products.

This company is partnering with universities to provide an online solution to help students stay on top of their schoolwork. It’s especially useful for students in the US, where they say it’s hard to keep track of due dates.

A startup that wants to make telecommuting easier by giving employees access to meetings and other tools on their phones, which is especially useful for remote workers.

A virtual assistant app that helps users plan their day by suggesting what’s happening in their calendar, and other useful data.

A new type of hardware, the “fiducial marker,” which is meant to replace the fiducials in your product data, making it more accurate and useful.

A startup that helps businesses 'tell their story' in a way that's more useful for their customers.

A startup that converts Facebook to Twitter links. The startup helps people link their Facebook profile to their Twitter account, which can be a useful way to signal to followers that you’re not a spammer.

A startup for desktop users that lets you use a button to share an email or link to Slack or Facebook or Twitter or whatever. It’s useful for copy-pasting text without cluttering your browser with the URL.

A tech company that focuses on making the data in social media sites more useful, allowing businesses and consumers to see what their customers are saying, and help them build better products.

The startup is building a network of people who have a shared interest in creating things that are useful, beautiful and environmentally friendly. They have a purpose-built app for tracking and sharing ideas.

A knowledge-sharing app that helps users find useful information, like the best places to eat in their city or how to get to the airport.

A startup that helps teachers prepare for standardized tests. It’s particularly useful for those in rural schools, where teachers have to travel long distances to get to their classrooms.

A startup that sells beautiful and useful accessories and home decor