Wait Startup Ideas

10 months ago

A restaurant review app that allows customers to leave feedback about their meal directly on the receipt for the wait staff to see.

410

1 year ago

Startup that wants to make it easier for restaurants to better manage their waitstaff, using a real-time scheduling system that will allow managers to see how many customers are waiting.

217

1 year ago

A car sharing startup that lets people rent cars by the hour or by the day. In July, the company had 13,000 people on the waitlist for their limited-time $500,000 raise.

144

2 years ago

The startup is building an app that helps hospital business owners manage their wait times and staffing. The goal is to cut down on wait times for patients.

141

1 year ago

An Uber-like app that helps people find reliable childcare. The startup is based in San Francisco and already has hundreds of parents on its waitlist.

130

2 years ago

A tool for doing data science on a continuous basis, allowing companies to pull real-time data rather than waiting for an annual report or project to happen.

128

2 years ago

The startup aims to solve the problem of the “job-hopping” millennial who wants to be able to get a new job without having to quit and wait for the old one to be filled.

123

2 years ago

This app wants to help you find a good plumber for your house, and helps you book them before the job, so you’re not standing in the rain for three hours waiting for a plumber to show up.

119

1 year ago

A restaurant that allows customers to order food on their phones. The app is meant to be a more human interface to the kitchen and to reduce wait times at the restaurant.

111

2 years ago

A startup trying to help iPhone users make in-store purchases without waiting in line

104

2 years ago

This startup and its founders were inspired by the story of their friend who had to wait two years to get a colonoscopy. They want to make the process easier.

94

11 months ago

A food delivery app that departs from the usual model, charging for delivery to non-customers. Instead of waiting for a customer to order, you can order from a restaurant from the app and have it delivered. The startup is currently in the pilot phase.

88

9 months ago

A mobile app for restaurants to easily manage their wait times and track customer satisfaction.

86

1 year ago

A startup that helps small businesses find and train new employees. It’s sort of like a LinkedIn for small businesses. In the past year they’ve hired over 300 people through the job board, and have a waiting list for others.

84

2 years ago

People are tired of waiting on hold for customer service, so they’re putting their calls into a queue to be answered and retrieved. The startup is aiming to be the de facto customer service app for the next generation of companies, and says it’s already working with several major companies in the space.

83

2 years ago

A list-management app for restaurants. The company is focused on bringing a reasonable price to the market for customers who want to see a list of all the restaurants in their area, and offering a platform to send out reminders to the wait staff.

83

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.

66

9 months ago

In the next several years, traditional brick and mortar stores might start to be replaced by online shops, like Zara and H&M. But instead of going to an actual store and waiting in line, online shoppers can order and pick up products from home in mere minutes. Joy is building a way for online stores to connect with customers and handle inventory for them, giving shoppers with no employees the experience of shopping in person.

65

2 months ago

A startup that helps with recruitment. Founders have a hard time finding good developers to hire and have had to spend hours sifting through LinkedIn profiles, applying to jobs, and then waiting for responses.

64

2 months ago

They’re the first mobile app for contractors, allowing companies to pay contractors in real-time instead of waiting for the end of the month. It’s currently in beta with a few dozen companies in San Francisco.

61

1 year ago

A mobile app that lets you pay for groceries at the cash register using an Android phone, without having to leave the store or wait in line.

60

1 year ago

“The Uber of the wine industry”, a wine delivery service for people who don’t have time to sit at a bar and wait for wine to be delivered. It’s currently only in San Francisco, but is planning to expand nationwide later this year.

60

1 year ago

A startup that wants to make it easy for your phone to pay with your location, so you don’t have to wait for your card’s PIN to be entered.

57

1 year ago

A startup with a concierge-like ordering and delivery feature where users can request items and wait for them to arrive, then be billed for those items by the store.

56

1 year ago

A platform to give users a “just in time” grocery delivery in a few minutes in a city where in many places a delivery can be a two hour wait.

54

1 year ago

A company that offers a new way to invest in real estate. The startup’s platform offers monthly payments of invested capital with a fixed rate of return on a pool of real estate investments. It’s a p2p lending platform, and its first customers are on a waitlist.

53

1 year ago

This startup wants to make sure you never miss a call from your boss or a client again. The startup’s app lets you see when someone’s calling you on your phone with a “call waiting” feature, and make it easy to connect with them.

52

1 year ago

A tool for businesses to manage and track their employees. For example, HR can use it to manage the performance of a salesperson in the field, or a restaurant can use it to manage their waitstaff.

52

11 months ago

A solution for managing restaurant wait times. The startup is one of the few in this space, and is focused on being a single number that shows how long a customer can expect to wait for a table.

50

1 year ago

A security startup that’s building a marketplace for on-demand security work. The company offers a new way for companies to outsource security work. The startup’s first customers are on a waitlist as well.

49

1 year ago

A model that takes care of a company’s employees and their families as they wait for serious medical treatment

47

4 months ago

This startup is building a tool for restaurants to allow customers to order food and drinks without ever talking to a waiter or waitress, and without giving out their phone number.

46

1 year ago

A tool for salespeople to generate new leads. The company’s co-founder used to go on sales calls where he’d be asked to generate leads, but then sit on his hands for days while he waited for new leads to appear. So he built a tool that automated this process, which has already generated 500 leads.

43

1 year ago

A startup that wants to help online shoppers find the best deal on a particular item, without having to wait for the item to be delivered. The startup is offering a marketplace, and a tool to help online merchants optimize their inventory so they can sell more.

43

1 month ago

A platform for home health care workers to connect with patients, share information and get paid. The platform is meant to minimize the time that people spend waiting on hold while they wait to speak with a doctor.

42

5 months ago

A company that provides a mobile app that helps people in the hospitality industry, from bartenders to waiters and bartenders, get paid for every drink they sell.

41

1 month ago

An IoT-connected lavatory that can send a notification when someone needs to go. The startup says it’s already sold to a company that owns a restaurant chain. They have a few more customers in the US and Europe waiting for the product to hit their backlog.

40

1 year ago

Tired of waiting for your toothpaste to dry PictureTec wants to eliminate that problem with a device that heats your toothpaste up to allow you to brush it out completely. The device has a small fan that heats up to just under boiling, which they say keeps the toothpaste from drying out too quickly.

39

1 year ago

A potentially life-saving medical device that turns a patient’s blood into a gel that they can inject into their bloodstream. It’s currently being tested on a few hundred people with a waitlist of thousands.

39

6 months ago

A startup that aims to help retail and hospitality businesses in the US using a mobile app that keeps track of how many people are currently waiting for items in each store.

38

11 months ago

This startup is building a smart, easy-to-use digital health platform for the elderly to keep up with their own health. It lets users track their health, record symptoms, and check up on their doctors without making appointments or taking medications. The startup currently has a backlog of 2,000 people waiting to be accepted.

37

4 months ago

This startup is trying to take the hassle out of finding a flight for an upcoming vacation. Rather than waiting for multiple websites to return the results, FlightHub finds the cheapest flight for a given route, then books it for you automatically.

37

11 months ago

The startup links you up with a “local” car service that comes directly to you and doesn’t wait for you to find a ride, saving you time and money.

35

6 months ago

A startup that helps users book appointments with doctors by letting them send a photo of a medical issue and then wait for a diagnosis or treatment recommendation.

35

5 months ago

A mobile app that helps you find a yoga studio in your area, and then book classes at the studio you want. Yoga studios often have limited space, but the founders say their app can help you find a spot if you don’t want to wait for your favorite studio to open up.

34

1 year ago

A startup that helps companies get paid faster by letting employees request payments from their companies instead of having to wait for checks to arrive.

32

3 months ago

A type of food delivery that promises to deliver to your door in under 30 minutes. It’s building a mobile app to target college students and young professionals who want to order a pizza, but hate waiting around in line.

32

9 months ago

A media platform for people who don’t want to wait for their favorite shows to come back. It’s a marketplace that curates shows and actors, so it’s perfect for superfans.

30

6 months ago

Y Combinator’s waiting list is a list of companies that are accepted into the program but haven’t yet received funding. The list is kept in a secret room underneath Y Combinator’s offices in Mountain View, California. The list is closed to the public and is generally used as a way for Y Combinator to vet companies that are accepted into its program.

28

5 months ago

A startup that helps people get a credit card even if they have bad credit. The startup is looking to connect with people through Facebook and make it easy to get a credit card without a long wait.

28

5 months ago

A micro-lending startup that sets its own timelines for loan funding, instead of waiting for customers to have their credit histories evaluated by traditional banks.

22

3 months ago

A chatbot that helps you book a doctor’s appointment, making it easier to make an appointment with a doctor in a doctor’s waiting room.

21

4 months ago

A company that provides a “No-Wait” service for restaurants, with the goal being that customers don’t have to wait 10 minutes for their food, but can order and get it before they leave the restaurant. The company has partnered with six San Francisco restaurants and revenue is growing.

17

2 years ago

Idea: A co-working space in Colombia that is growing quickly The company is currently in a few pilot locations and is looking to expand rapidly They have a waitlist of over 50 companies

15

2 years ago

Idea: A simple way for people to pre-order food online from local restaurants, picking up their food without waiting in a line or ordering into a kitchen. Customers place an order on the website, and then the startup calls the restaurant to confirm. The startup says it’s grown 10% week-over-week for the last year.

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Wait Startup Ideas

A restaurant review app that allows customers to leave feedback about their meal directly on the receipt for the wait staff to see.

Startup that wants to make it easier for restaurants to better manage their waitstaff, using a real-time scheduling system that will allow managers to see how many customers are waiting.

A car sharing startup that lets people rent cars by the hour or by the day. In July, the company had 13,000 people on the waitlist for their limited-time $500,000 raise.

The startup is building an app that helps hospital business owners manage their wait times and staffing. The goal is to cut down on wait times for patients.

An Uber-like app that helps people find reliable childcare. The startup is based in San Francisco and already has hundreds of parents on its waitlist.

A tool for doing data science on a continuous basis, allowing companies to pull real-time data rather than waiting for an annual report or project to happen.

The startup aims to solve the problem of the “job-hopping” millennial who wants to be able to get a new job without having to quit and wait for the old one to be filled.

This app wants to help you find a good plumber for your house, and helps you book them before the job, so you’re not standing in the rain for three hours waiting for a plumber to show up.

A restaurant that allows customers to order food on their phones. The app is meant to be a more human interface to the kitchen and to reduce wait times at the restaurant.

A startup trying to help iPhone users make in-store purchases without waiting in line

This startup and its founders were inspired by the story of their friend who had to wait two years to get a colonoscopy. They want to make the process easier.

A food delivery app that departs from the usual model, charging for delivery to non-customers. Instead of waiting for a customer to order, you can order from a restaurant from the app and have it delivered. The startup is currently in the pilot phase.

A mobile app for restaurants to easily manage their wait times and track customer satisfaction.

A startup that helps small businesses find and train new employees. It’s sort of like a LinkedIn for small businesses. In the past year they’ve hired over 300 people through the job board, and have a waiting list for others.

A list-management app for restaurants. The company is focused on bringing a reasonable price to the market for customers who want to see a list of all the restaurants in their area, and offering a platform to send out reminders to the wait staff.

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.

A startup that helps with recruitment. Founders have a hard time finding good developers to hire and have had to spend hours sifting through LinkedIn profiles, applying to jobs, and then waiting for responses.

They’re the first mobile app for contractors, allowing companies to pay contractors in real-time instead of waiting for the end of the month. It’s currently in beta with a few dozen companies in San Francisco.

A mobile app that lets you pay for groceries at the cash register using an Android phone, without having to leave the store or wait in line.

“The Uber of the wine industry”, a wine delivery service for people who don’t have time to sit at a bar and wait for wine to be delivered. It’s currently only in San Francisco, but is planning to expand nationwide later this year.

A startup that wants to make it easy for your phone to pay with your location, so you don’t have to wait for your card’s PIN to be entered.

A startup with a concierge-like ordering and delivery feature where users can request items and wait for them to arrive, then be billed for those items by the store.

A platform to give users a “just in time” grocery delivery in a few minutes in a city where in many places a delivery can be a two hour wait.

A company that offers a new way to invest in real estate. The startup’s platform offers monthly payments of invested capital with a fixed rate of return on a pool of real estate investments. It’s a p2p lending platform, and its first customers are on a waitlist.

This startup wants to make sure you never miss a call from your boss or a client again. The startup’s app lets you see when someone’s calling you on your phone with a “call waiting” feature, and make it easy to connect with them.

A tool for businesses to manage and track their employees. For example, HR can use it to manage the performance of a salesperson in the field, or a restaurant can use it to manage their waitstaff.

A solution for managing restaurant wait times. The startup is one of the few in this space, and is focused on being a single number that shows how long a customer can expect to wait for a table.

A security startup that’s building a marketplace for on-demand security work. The company offers a new way for companies to outsource security work. The startup’s first customers are on a waitlist as well.

A model that takes care of a company’s employees and their families as they wait for serious medical treatment

This startup is building a tool for restaurants to allow customers to order food and drinks without ever talking to a waiter or waitress, and without giving out their phone number.

A startup that wants to help online shoppers find the best deal on a particular item, without having to wait for the item to be delivered. The startup is offering a marketplace, and a tool to help online merchants optimize their inventory so they can sell more.

A platform for home health care workers to connect with patients, share information and get paid. The platform is meant to minimize the time that people spend waiting on hold while they wait to speak with a doctor.

A company that provides a mobile app that helps people in the hospitality industry, from bartenders to waiters and bartenders, get paid for every drink they sell.

An IoT-connected lavatory that can send a notification when someone needs to go. The startup says it’s already sold to a company that owns a restaurant chain. They have a few more customers in the US and Europe waiting for the product to hit their backlog.

A potentially life-saving medical device that turns a patient’s blood into a gel that they can inject into their bloodstream. It’s currently being tested on a few hundred people with a waitlist of thousands.

A startup that aims to help retail and hospitality businesses in the US using a mobile app that keeps track of how many people are currently waiting for items in each store.

This startup is trying to take the hassle out of finding a flight for an upcoming vacation. Rather than waiting for multiple websites to return the results, FlightHub finds the cheapest flight for a given route, then books it for you automatically.

The startup links you up with a “local” car service that comes directly to you and doesn’t wait for you to find a ride, saving you time and money.

A startup that helps users book appointments with doctors by letting them send a photo of a medical issue and then wait for a diagnosis or treatment recommendation.

A mobile app that helps you find a yoga studio in your area, and then book classes at the studio you want. Yoga studios often have limited space, but the founders say their app can help you find a spot if you don’t want to wait for your favorite studio to open up.

A startup that helps companies get paid faster by letting employees request payments from their companies instead of having to wait for checks to arrive.

A type of food delivery that promises to deliver to your door in under 30 minutes. It’s building a mobile app to target college students and young professionals who want to order a pizza, but hate waiting around in line.

A media platform for people who don’t want to wait for their favorite shows to come back. It’s a marketplace that curates shows and actors, so it’s perfect for superfans.

A startup that helps people get a credit card even if they have bad credit. The startup is looking to connect with people through Facebook and make it easy to get a credit card without a long wait.

A micro-lending startup that sets its own timelines for loan funding, instead of waiting for customers to have their credit histories evaluated by traditional banks.

A chatbot that helps you book a doctor’s appointment, making it easier to make an appointment with a doctor in a doctor’s waiting room.

A company that provides a “No-Wait” service for restaurants, with the goal being that customers don’t have to wait 10 minutes for their food, but can order and get it before they leave the restaurant. The company has partnered with six San Francisco restaurants and revenue is growing.

Idea: A co-working space in Colombia that is growing quickly The company is currently in a few pilot locations and is looking to expand rapidly They have a waitlist of over 50 companies