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Week Startup Ideas



1 year ago

A collaborative workspace where people can work on their own projects and teams can rent desks for a day or week.

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2 years ago

As we reported last week, Blue Capital is building a “wage engine” for the gig economy that will help people figure out how to actually pay their rent.

266
2 years ago

This startup helps employees track time they spend using the internet to find out how they spend their day, week, or month.

217
2 years ago

A loyalty app driven by a points system. Loyalty points can be earned and redeemed at over 3,000 retailers including Target, Best Buy, and Whole Foods. The startup says they are adding new retailers every week.

198
3 months ago

A startup that wants to help people manage their business travel by saving time. The company says it can save 20 hours per week by booking flights, hotels, and car rentals without leaving the office. Also offers a mobile app for booking flights, hotels, rental cars, and rental cars.

194
3 years ago

A CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program that provides customers with weekly deliveries of fresh produce and other items from local farmers. Customers pay for their weekly deliveries of local fruits and vegetables through a subscription model.

166
11 months ago

A startup that sends groceries to users' homes. In its first week, the app was used to send 5,000 orders.

165
1 year ago

A music streaming service where you can stream music stored on your phone to anywhere. The startup is also building a subscription service, which it’s launching in the next few weeks.

158
3 years ago

A startup that provides a service where they visit your house and help you plan meals that will last a week

157
3 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can rent out their unused vacation home for 2 weeks a year and make extra money

157
2 years ago

A startup that wants to help people find and use better alternatives to plastic bags, by helping them make shopping lists in their phone’s email. The startup has only been live for a week, but is already seeing a 30% conversion rate.

156
2 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for companies to build apps for their customers, by building an app store for developers to build apps for their customers. The startup’s founder tells us that he’s gotten 10,000 signups in 2 weeks.

155
3 years ago

A company that helps users find and book lodging for a unique event in a city. Right now, you can book a flight, but you can also book a hotel for a one-night stay or a week.

153
3 years ago

THISWEEK.io is a news magazine that tells you what’s happening this week in your city.

152
3 years ago

A social enterprise in Indonesia that sells bedsheets made of recycled plastic. The company is building a factory that can make up to 50,000 bedsheets a week.

151
3 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can rent a room in someone’s house for a night, a weekend, a week, etc

150
3 years ago

Each week, the startup curates a list of 3-10 new books, videos, podcasts, and articles from the industry and the web that it thinks are worth reading and listening to. The startup also curates a weekly newsletter.

150
3 years ago

A startup that provides a service where it sends you a box of healthy food every week and you can pick it up at a convenient location

149
1 year ago

The BusinessBold is an online directory of B2B startups. The directory allows members to search for businesses based on location, industry, and size. The directory is updated weekly.

147
3 years ago

The Startup Grind podcast is a weekly podcast about entrepreneurship, hosted by founders of SBJ’s own portfolio companies.

145
3 years ago

The company has begun to experiment with a plan to bring a $10/month subscription service to consumers that would provide a weekly Amazon Prime-like service to customers. The company could be an alternative to people who don’t like Amazon Prime’s current offerings.

145
3 years ago

One of several startups that are building alternative work schedules that let people swap out their hours for the week. They all basically pair an employer with a local worker who can come in for extra hours in exchange for a small fee or a flat rate.

144
3 years ago

Builds mobile apps for small and medium-sized businesses that are typically handled by outsourced developers. It helps the client keep track of their employees and their weekly hours, track expenses, and generate invoices.

143
3 years ago

A home energy service software company that helps users track and manage their energy usage in real-time. Anyone can install the service, which allows users to subscribe to a specific time frame or a whole week and pay $5 to $8 per day. Meant to help people save money on their energy costs.

141
3 years ago

A company that wants to make it easier for companies to manage their sales force by helping them upgrade their CRM and marketing software on a weekly or monthly basis.

137
3 years ago

What’s a startup to do when they’ve secured $500,000 in funding and they don’t know what to build Unity is a tool that helps founders go from idea to prototype to product, all in a matter of weeks.

137
3 years ago

A startup that helps users keep track of their groceries throughout the week, with the goal of saving them money on waste.

136
1 year ago

A new product that helps companies find the best possible options for their data center, ranging from the optimal hardware to the best locations. This is a pitch to be added to Startup Weekends.

136
1 year ago

A startup that lets people book restaurants online for days or weeks in advance.

134
3 years ago

A remote-work solution for business partners and freelancers, letting them work from anywhere. It’s a sort of “Uber for freelancers”, and is based on the idea that most clients don’t want to hire someone for a long-term gig, but instead need someone to tackle a project for a few days or a week at a time.

132
2 years ago

In the 2017 Philadelphia Startup Week, 10 companies were featured.

132
1 year ago

A company that helps companies that operate in a surge capacity — those that operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — manage their power usage and energy costs. It’s a 15 person company that launched in New York City in May, and is profitable.

132
3 years ago

An analytics startup for small to medium-sized businesses that collects and analyzes data on online purchases. The startup also provides a tool that allows companies to schedule their marketing content to be sent out at specific times during the week.

128
1 year ago

A tool to help small businesses access business loans. The company’s founders claim that they have already signed up 450 companies in a week, and plan to grow to over 10,000 by the end of the year.

125
3 years ago

A startup that creates a marketplace for companies to outsource their recruiting to on-demand recruiters, with the promise of matching candidates to available jobs within a week

124
3 years ago

A startup that provides a service for renting servers, using a model similar to Airbnb Users can rent a server by the hour, day, week, or month They rent out their unused servers, which helps keep them up to date, and clients get cheap hosting

122
3 years ago

This app helps people find classes they can take on nights and weekends.

120
2 years ago

A startup that connects customers to third-party products that can be shipped in a day, rather than weeks.

120
1 year ago

A platform that helps companies grow their salesforce. Founded in September 2017, in the first week it managed to close over $1.7 million in deals.

120
3 years ago

A company that wants to help people find a way to use a home like a hotel. People can rent out their home for a day, two weeks, or longer, with Airbnb-like booking options.

119
3 years ago

This startup is looking to automatically generate and sell weekly email subscriptions to people based on their buying habits. The email service is for people who want to make sure they get email notifications for products they purchase frequently, like coffee or a subscription service, like Gilt or Birchbox.

118
3 years ago

A tool for finding out how many people have downloaded your app, and how many have used it in the past week. The founders say that it’s been integrated into 75 different apps, and that they’ve seen a 20% increase in user retention and engagement once they started using it, with a 50% increase in revenue.

117
3 years ago

A digital platform that helps people take exams for jobs, and that then prepares them for the job. It launched in June, and after a few weeks of beta testing, is now up and running.

116
3 years ago

The startup provides software, training and data to help consumers achieve their fitness goals. The company’s software, which is built on the premise that “it’s not about the number of times you go to the gym, it’s about how much you get done when you go”, has won the Best Startup Award at the Philadelphia Startup Weekend.

115
3 years ago

A software platform that allows brokers to lower their fees by sending buyers and sellers a weekly report with a snapshot of their properties.

115
11 months ago

This is a platform for scheduling your doctor’s appointments by geography, days of the week, and even specific time slots.

114
3 years ago

The Y Combinator summer school is a four-week program that teaches computer science fundamentals to top-tier high school students. The program was launched in 2010 by Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator.

113
3 months ago

A platform for renting out beds in various places in India, with a goal of bringing the rental market online. Currently, the startup has partnered with over 500 hotels and is expanding to over 100 more in the next few weeks.

112
2 years ago

A startup for crowd-sourcing, developed by the founders of Yelp, to help providers compete for customers. It’s currently a beta app, but the founders say it will be available for businesses to use in the coming weeks. If it catches on, it could disrupt the way users find and book services by grouping a person’s needs in front of a provider that has been vetted by the community.

110
3 years ago

(Note: This is an ongoing list, and I’m adding to it as soon as I hear about new startup pitches every week. I’ll keep updating when necessary.)

109
2 years ago

A payroll company, where employees get paid bi-weekly.

109
2 years ago

A mobile app that helps people find the best deals on local flights. The startup is already seeing 1,000 downloads every week and is expanding nationally with a $500,000 investment.

108
2 years ago

A company building a wearable that the company says is the size of a bar of soap and can be worn for up to a week. The company says the wearable can continuously monitor glucose levels, and can be used as a glucose monitor.

106
3 years ago

A weekly newsletter that covers Y Combinator startups.

104
2 years ago

It’s a subscription based service that sends users a new piece of content every week.

104
2 years ago

The name of the service is taken from the Latin word “diaspora”, which means “dispersed” or “dissolved.” The company is building a platform for businesses to offer their customers a daily or weekly service, such as cleaning, cooking, or laundry.

102
2 years ago

A podcasting app for journalists that aims to help them tell stories more effectively, so they don’t have to spend weeks on each episode.

100
2 years ago

A company that creates a suite of applications for small businesses to automate tasks and shave time off their work week.

100
2 years ago

A company that makes small, affordable homes from shipping containers. The company has built “a new kind of modular home that can be made in as little as one week, on site”. The first models are coming out in October.

99
2 years ago

A company that wants to help companies and their employees work together after hours, whether that’s an early morning meeting or a weeknight hack.

97
2 years ago

Y Combinator is not a startup accelerator in the traditional sense, as it does not provide capital, mentorship, or other startup-specific services. Instead, Y Combinator provides seed funding and office space for startups that have already been bootstrapped for over a year and a half. Y Combinator has five cohorts a year, each of which lasts for 14 weeks. Participants are required to pay for their own flights and housing, which are taken care of by Y Combinator.

94
2 years ago

A platform for quickly getting and paying for the right medication. The startup has raised $10,000 from the University of Pennsylvania Startup Weekend.

92
2 years ago

A company that provides a platform for artists to share their work and connect with fans. They currently have over 400 artists, and plan to announce a partnership with a major US publisher in the coming weeks.

92
1 year ago

Instacart is an on-demand grocery delivery service that takes orders via an app. Instacart hopes to be a one-stop shop for weekly shopping, with a focus on healthy, organic food.

91
10 months ago

A weekly show for people interested in food and restaurants, with a focus on the best new restaurants.

89
2 years ago

A platform that lets users receive a weekly email (or text message) that shows them how to use their phone.

87
2 years ago

A startup that wants to use machine learning to predict the next trends in fashion. The startup uses machine learning techniques to predict everything from what style will be popular next week to what brands will be the most popular in 3 years.

84
1 year ago

In the past year some over 500 new startups have launched in Seattle’s startup scene and the number of new startups in the city has increased by a factor of 10 since 2013. We’ll be looking at some of the most exciting startups in the city in the coming weeks.

83
2 years ago

A data-driven platform that helps brands find new customers on Instagram. Each week, it finds tens of thousands of new customers that are likely to buy based on data such as recent activity and location.

81
2 years ago

A company that wants to help you get up and running with your first product idea in 12 weeks. They’ve built a platform for product discovery and ideation.

81
10 months ago

A mobile-first, peer-to-peer lending platform. They say they’re working with some of the top 10 US banks and are adding more every week.

78
6 months ago

CultureCatch is an online community that helps you find out who the best people in your industry are. They’re looking to onboard 500 people in the next few weeks.

77
2 years ago

A micro-job platform where people can earn a few dollars an hour doing a task for a company that already has a full-time employee doing that same task. The idea is that someone can have a few hours of work on Mechanical Turk each day already, and that’s the entirety of their work week.

76
2 years ago

A company that helps people pay for car rentals by tracking their driving habits and charging them for how much they drive each week

74
2 years ago

A startup that helps travelers rent cars for a day or a week at a time. The startup wants to rent vehicles from manufacturers like BMW and Mercedes Benz.

73
1 year ago

A startup for the sales of all kinds of used goods. The startup is hosting weekly events to help people sell goods directly to buyers.

73
2 years ago

A platform for connecting readers to products and creators. The company says it’s currently in talks with publishers, and has letters of intent from five publishers to launch the product in the next few weeks.

71
2 years ago

The book was published on July 17, 2011, and made the New York Times Best Seller list on July 22, 2011, and remained on the list for two weeks.

71
1 year ago

This one is a bit of a stretch to be sure, but the idea is that when you need a car for a day or a week, you can borrow one from a company in your area. The company then acts as a rental broker and rents the car to you at a set rate.

69
11 months ago

A platform that helps you keep your money in your bank account and track your spending, letting you know how much you’re spending each week, what you’re spending it on, and when you’ve spent too much.

69
6 months ago

A startup that wants to help large companies cut down on the time it takes to build apps. It wants to bring a SaaS-only tool to the table that will allow companies to build apps in a few weeks, compared to the months it takes now.

69
1 year ago

An AI-powered chatbot that responds to queries like “what is the weather like tomorrow” and “what are the sales for this week” in a manner that’s “personalized” and “conversational”. The startup hopes to move into the voice assistant space.

67
2 years ago

A startup that lets companies conduct discovery events and get feedback from a target market in just a few weeks.

66
2 years ago

A free service that helps restaurants optimize their inventory. The startup says they’ve built software that helps restaurants optimize their inventory for each day of the week by allowing them to manage their orders.

66
2 years ago

A platform for creating travel packages, with a focus on weeklong trips

64
2 years ago

A new way to pay for parking. Rather than pay by the hour, you pay by the week on a pay-as-you-go basis. The idea is that it eliminates parking tickets and increases utilization, and the company says it’s already in over 500 cities and 30,000 businesses.

64
1 year ago

A platform where people can borrow a car for a day or a week

64
1 year ago

A startup that provides weekly financial planning and budgeting for young adults

64
1 year ago

A small-batch hydroponic tomato farm with a $5,000 retail price. The startup wants to deliver fresh tomatoes for $4 per pound, and is currently shipping 3,000 units per week to its first five clients.

63
1 year ago

a collaborative editing app for creating video content, which is used by Giphy to help users make GIFs, including the new “GIF of the Week” section.

63
1 year ago

A startup that aims to make it easier for people to sell their homes to others. The company helps sellers navigate the paperwork, create a listing, and finalize their sale in as little as two weeks.

62
1 year ago

A daily e-newsletter for journalists that sends out a story every day, with a new one every weekday. The company says it’s already signed up 1,000 journalists from all over the world.

61
10 months ago

Additionally, startups are typically small, so there is often no need for more than a couple of volunteers per week.

61
1 year ago

A weekly newsletter for parents and grandparents that sends them a selection of articles, videos, and other content that they can share with their loved ones.

60
1 year ago

A tool to help teams build and release small experimental products. It’s currently in pre-launch, with more features to come over the next couple of weeks.

60
1 year ago

A digital assistant that provides a list of things to do when you get home on the weekends.

58
1 year ago

A two-week online course for online workers to improve their writing and editing techniques.

57
1 year ago

The Philadelphia Business Journal also has a weekly feature called "Philadelphia Startup Spotlight", which highlights Philly startups. It highlights the company's most recent news and trends, and interviews the CEO.

55
1 year ago

A startup that helps users manage their "digital assets" including photos, music, text, and documents. The company says they already offer the ability to manage tasks, or "chores" in their app, which allows users to specify a daily or weekly routine, and the app tracks their progress. The company also offers a service that allows users to build "to-do lists" out of their digital assets.

54
6 months ago

A food ordering app for people who normally work at night or weekends. It’s meant to be the Uber of food delivery.

54
1 year ago

WorkWeek is a robo-advisor for freelancers, offering asset management and tax services for small business owners.

53
1 year ago

A company that helps small businesses and companies of all sizes create “lean-forward” websites and apps. The company has a number of products aimed at helping this process, including an earlier app that lets you create templates and prototype a mobile app. This week they launched a new product called Twig, which is a platform that lets you create a prototype of your product in a matter of minutes.

52
1 year ago

A startup that’s building a dashboard for hospitality businesses to predict how busy their businesses will be over the next few weeks.

52
11 months ago

BizVine is a platform that connects businesses with existing events. It’s used to connect events like the Startup Weekend to their organizers.

52
9 months ago

A startup that helps small businesses in China pay suppliers and employees. The idea is to help local shops avoid the 2-3 week delays that are common.

52
2 years ago

A machine learning-based system that can predict the viability of a potential investment in minutes, rather than the weeks it takes traditional gatekeepers.

51
1 year ago

"Idea" is a weekly feature on The Verge's technology podcast, The Vergecast. Every week, we ask a question about a company or a topic at the intersection of technology and culture. You can listen to previous episodes here . You can read more about the show at our dedicated hub . You can reach us at [email protected]

51
1 year ago

A startup for people to manage their travel arrangements, including accommodations, flights, and transfers. The company is in the final stages of development for an app, and is planning a landing page and website in the coming weeks.

51
4 months ago

The Start-Up (French: Le Startup) is a French weekly news show on the Canal+ channel.

51
1 year ago

A startup that will help you find companies that will give you free rent for your apartment in exchange for a set number of hours a week.

50
10 months ago

A startup that’s building one of the first collaborative platforms to help people find and book in-home beauty services. It’s the second big beauty startup to launch in the past few weeks.

50
1 year ago

“Find a product or service that fits your needs and create a custom experience in minutes instead of days or weeks.” The company will automatically match users with the best online seller or service.

49
1 year ago

A startup to help users in the US get a visa to visit Mexico. Currently, only the founder is using it to visit Mexico, but it’s growing each week and it’s easy to imagine a scenario where it becomes a full-fledged travel app.

47
5 months ago

A way to make it easier for non-tech people to code, which they say is a “massive” problem. The company’s founder says that a person with no coding background can be trained in three weeks.

45
1 year ago

A startup that aims to create an AI-powered personal assistant that works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

44
7 months ago

The idea is that a virtual assistant can help people keep track of things like how many miles they travel each week, how often they go out to dinner, how much they spend on toiletries, and what they eat at home. Groopay is a subscription service that allows people to pay a monthly fee to automatically track their spending.

42
1 year ago

A bi-weekly newsletter for entrepreneurs and businesses, written by a former business journalist. The newsletter is free and comes out the first and 15th of every month.

41
3 years ago

Idea: This startup is building a platform for people to have food delivered from restaurants that have closed for the day The company says it has 200 weekly users, and an average order size of $10

40
1 year ago

A startup that builds on the idea of the “work week”, creating a calendar that syncs work with life, so you don’t get in a rut. The company says it has over $3M in funding, and is currently in the pre-launch stage of its business.

40
1 year ago

A new way to find a doctor, through a website that matches patients and doctors based on their preferences. For instance, if you want a doctor who’s available on nights and weekends, then you can search by location and hours in advance.

37
8 months ago

A gym membership that allows you to pay for an entire year in advance, with payouts over the course of the year. People can buy a membership in the first week of the month and then schedule payments for the rest of the year.

37
1 year ago

A tool that allows teams to get a daily or weekly report on how their projects are progressing from the status of each team member using a simple web interface.

35
4 months ago

A tool to help companies keep track of their workers. It charges employees $10 per week to keep their timesheet and records in one place.

35
5 months ago

The team behind GrubHub says they’ve managed to get $20,000 worth of orders placed from customers in just the first week of their beta launch.

34
2 months ago

In a world where millions of people browse the web every day, the average person spends less than 20 minutes on the internet every week.

34
3 years ago

Idea: A startup that is building a platform to sell hot sandwiches to restaurants They say they have 7x ROI on customer acquisition, and are growing 10% week-over-week

33
5 months ago

A tool to help salespeople manage the thousands of sales calls they make every week.

32
2 months ago

A platform that helps track exercise routines and helps people set goals for each week.

31
7 months ago

A college student living in the US could apply for a scholarship, but they’d have to spend weeks getting their paperwork in order. Oren makes it easier, and has already helped students pay for college.

30
7 months ago

A single, unified search for all of your small business accounts, with a dashboard for daily/weekly/monthly activity.

30
6 months ago

A platform for planning and budgeting, with a twist: it’s a web app, so you can access it from any device or browser. The startup’s platform, however, relies on a tool that lets you import your finances, and then you can set up budgets based on that data. It’s only been live for a few weeks, but the startup says it’s already been downloaded by over 200 people.

30
7 months ago

"Philadelphia Tech News" is a weekly digital newsletter that covers the startup scene in Philadelphia and the greater Delaware Valley. The newsletter is published every Wednesday at noon.

29
2 months ago

A company that lets people rent out their houses by the night, week, or month.

29
2 months ago

A utility that sends out a weekly email of all the new changes to the code on a website.

28
7 months ago

A subscription-based app that sends a weekly email to your inbox with your billing information, invoice data, and offers to save money.

26
21 days ago

A seller of a prepackaged meal kit that includes everything you need to cook a meal on a weeknight.

24
2 months ago

The startup teaches people how to develop web apps in just one weekend a month.

23
5 months ago

The Brdfr app helps people set up recurring payments based on their daily habits. The customer can set up a monthly, weekly, or daily payment, and Brdfr then takes the payment from their bank account at a specific time each day.

22
2 months ago

A startup that helps users find vacation rentals, which are typically reserved for long weekends and short periods of time.

20
2 months ago

Dock.io is building a dock for your phone that you can dock your phone to and it will charge while you are away. It also includes a camera, so you can take pictures while your phone is juiced up. The company launched last week with a crowdfunding campaign

19
5 months ago

A weekly newsletter for “techies” that focuses on interesting new tech. It runs at a loss and is based in Y Combinator’s office.

18
4 months ago

A newsfeed for business, a tool that provides a weekly overview of the news that can impact your business and industry.

15
27 days ago

A digital hotel room where guests can rent out their rooms for the night or week.

12
23 days ago

A platform that allows teams to organize their weekly meetings online, where each team member can share the agenda, set agendas, and more.

10
1 month ago

A startup for grocery shopping that promises more than 10% savings. The idea is that you’ll get an alert when you’re close to your weekly or monthly market spends.

9
5 days ago

A daily/weekly calendar for freelancers, allowing them to see their schedule and due dates.

9
3 years ago

Idea: An online marketplace for work-at-home jobs, like editing, transcription, and customer service The startup has raised $125 million in funding from angel investors and is currently paying out $1,000 per week in revenue

7
20 days ago

This startup helps people track their personal wealth on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

7
2 days ago

A startup that allows people to sign up for jobs on weekends, allowing the businesses to expand their work force on the weekend.

4
3 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.

3
3 years ago

Idea: A ‘gig economy’ labor marketplace for graphic designers. The startup says it’s growing 1,000% month-over-month, and has already sold $3,000 a week in design work.

3
3 years ago

Idea: A platform that makes it easy for interior designers to manage projects and clients. Users of the software say it’s saving them up to 6 hours per week.

2
3 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can upload pictures of their children and then the pictures are put into a video and sent to them every week or month

1
3 years ago

A startup that provides a service for picking up groceries for you at a certain time every week

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3 years ago

Idea: Every week, the startup sends people a bag of clothes that they’ve selected based on an algorithm that takes into account their preferences and the weather

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3 years ago

Idea: This company is building a personal finance management tool for women that includes a feature to help them plan for their next vacation The startup says it has 5,000 weekly users who have created more than 10,000 budgets

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3 years ago

Idea: A startup for cleaning services The startup says it has 100 weekly users, with an average order size of $100

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3 years ago

Idea: An enterprise tech that helps companies manage the process of going from a workday to a workweek.

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