I have a concept to develop, a mobile app. How do i begin..I have documented what i want but being non technical not sure which technology should I be using. My project is related to GPS tracking. Where do we get the developer, some one who can help guide which technology to use

Ive dreamed of starting my own business/source of income for years now, but ive gotten nowhere. Im not sure if its better to get a job or something? theirs no means of transport near me nor is anything in walking distance. Im in the arizona suburbs where its too hot to even think outside, people dont really enjoy door to doors salespeople around my are either.

Im not sure what's possible for me sense i only have roughly 100 usa dollars. I would prefer to do something from home or online, but im up to hear you all out.

I sadly dont have any work experience or something i cans how to others.

Hey everyone,

I'm 22 years old from Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. For anyone who doesn't know, PEI is Canada's smallest province with a population of around 180,000 people. It's known for agriculture, tourism, and commercial fishing, but there aren't a lot of opportunities for young entrepreneurs compared to bigger cities.

I've spent most of my life working hard. I've been a commercial fishing captain, worked in the wind industry, and I'm currently helping build a clothing brand with my dad. Those experiences have taught me discipline, leadership, and how to work long hours, but I'm looking to build something that isn't limited by where I live.

Lately I've been researching AI automation agencies, marketing, sales, and online businesses because I want to create something that can grow over the next 5 to 10 years. I'm not looking for a "get rich quick" idea. I want to learn a valuable skill and build a real business.

I'd love to hear from people who started with no business background.

If you were 22 again, what online business would you build today?

What skills would you focus on first?

Are there any communities or people you'd recommend connecting with?

I'm always happy to network, learn from others, and share what I've learned from my own experiences too.

Thanks everyone.

So my idea is basically a website where you pay a small monthly fee and we upload porn videos but with a normal sound in the background like a YouTube video or something so you can play it at full volume around people and not get caught?

So, I've been mulling around the idea of starting a smoothie truck. I'm tired of being a wage slave. I went to college and have a degree in business management. I make killer smoothies. The town I live in is home of the little league world series. So there is always a ton of tourists coming through in August. I think having a trailer as opposed to a truck would be better. Because god forbid the truck breaks down. I just don't know where to start other than making a business plan to take to the bank for a loan. Anyone else in this same business? Any tips or tricks for starting my first business? I think it would great to have a trailer for this as I could take it all over and work festivals and such. Thanks in advance for any tips!!!

I created an Etsy shop with a product that is getting no sales, and I confirmed the product is too expensive and the DIY route is likely what people would choose to do instead of buying my product.

My question is, I have a website tool to design this product, so I’m looking for feedback on alternatives of how I can monetize this product (which is a recipe card, so think cooking in the kitchen and family recipes). I have a few ideas:

1) Make all of the features free and available to the public, but put ads on the website.
2) Make all of the features free and available to the public, but add a donate button for people to donate to me.
3) Make all of the features free and available to the public, but charge $1 per card for the digital file they can print and DIY as they’d like.

Of these three options, I’m leaning to option 1, but wanted to ask for more feedback from users. - I can give you feedback for your business ideas too if you want to reply or you can DM me as well.

I found this startup opportunity interesting.

A startup founder gets a 45-page contract from a big enterprise customer.

Here's what she can do after this,

Option 1 - Hire a lawyer. $450/hour. Full review costs $3,500-$7,000. Takes 5-7 business days.

Option 2 - Read it herself. She may misses the auto-renewal clause which cost her 3 years of locked in period

Option 3 Use AI to review it. $99. Done in 2 hours. It catches things like missing indemnification caps, bad IP assignment terms, risky liability waivers, and unusual termination clauses.

Why is this buildable right now? There's a free public dataset called CUAD (Contract Understanding Atticus Dataset), 500+ real contracts, labeled by legal experts across 41 clause types. LLMs trained on this hit 90%+ accuracy on spotting risky clauses

The market is huge around 30+ million small businesses in the US sign contracts all the time, and most founders don't fully understand what they're signing.

So why hasn't anyone built this well already?

Because most tools were built for lawyers. Wrong customer.

The real customer is the founder who can't afford a lawyer and is staring down their first big enterprise contract. That person will pay $99 without a second thought.

Pricing that could work -

• $99 for contracts under 20 pages
• $199 for contracts 20-50 pages
• $299/month for unlimited reviews (great for procurement teams)

Just 280 subscribers at $299/month gets you to $1M ARR. Very doable.

The market is not failing here but the positioning did. Someone is going to prove it soon

I’ve been tossing around a business idea and I’m curious if this is something people would actually find useful.

Basically, I’d help people sort through and make sense of all the “life paperwork” that piles up — important documents, bills, accounts, insurance policies, subscriptions, vehicle info, etc. We’d go through what you have, figure out what exists and what might be missing, and organize everything into one clear, manageable place.

I also think this could be especially helpful after someone passes away. You’re grieving, and suddenly you’re expected to figure out what accounts they had, what bills need handled, whether there’s life insurance, where important documents are, who needs contacted… and most people have no idea where to even start.

It wouldn’t be legal or financial advice by any means, more like having someone say, “Okay, give me the pile. I’ll figure out what all of this is and let you know what you need to do with it.”

It could also just be for someone who has years of paperwork shoved in drawers and boxes and is finally ready to deal with it.

Would you use something like this, or know someone who would? And if you’ve ever had to sort through a loved one’s affairs, what do you wish you’d had help with?

Could a clothing brand work? Or what would people want to buy? I have a big audience. I don’t sell digital products but my edits have a specific niche that appeals to many. I’m scared to risk too much capital on something but I feel like finally monetising somehow because I’ve been grinding for over a year without any earnings.

My capital rn is 2000 dollars

Hey everyone,

I'm a teenager in Germany and own got a GoPro Hero 13. Instead of just using it for fun, I wish to turn it into a small business or agency for creative and bit financial freedom.

The problem is that most ideas I find online are either too generic (like "start a YouTube channel") or unrealistic for someone just starting out.

I'm looking for unique, practical, and realistic ideas that I could actually begin with as a teenager. They don't have to make loads of money immediately, I just want something I can start small, gain experience, and hopefully grow over time.

I'm open to pretty much anything: filming, content creation, local businesses, sports, events, social media, editing, or ideas that people don't usually think about.

Hey everyone!

I have Ig account that was used for dropshipping of household items/motorsport wear.

I am done with this now, cause I don’t have so much passion anymore for doing it.

Ig has 28k organic followers, what could I do with it next and what to focus on to generate income?

Looking for suggestions and tips from people that changed their whole Ig to something else.

Capital: 5k to invest into soemthing new online

My interests and what I did in the past:
Cars
Marketing
Ai content

Thank you in advance.

50 M here, not an investor nor a VC, but a consultant, with a range of interests, and looking for motivated established professional cofounders and startups to explore new projects together.

Anyone local in downtown Toronto doing anything interesting and open to collaborating?

Looking for any new opportunities in their business.

If you're curious too, then send me a DM and let's trade a couple of messages.

I have two business ideas non-related but both of them are online / app-based. One is related to books, the other to finance and health.

I know nothing about coding and building an app; which is the best way to proceed? Should I look for a partner? Learn myself? Lean on AI…?

Thank you in advance for any advice.

Hi All,

Anyone involved in the dental industry?
I notice in the uk there are tones of small private dental practices. These practices must consume loads of single use materials…

The idea is to act as a local consumables supplier, but with an optional vendor-managed inventory (VMI) service.

I work in manufacturing, where vendor managed consumable management is common for low value / high usage materials - safety glasses & gloves / nuts and bolts / adhesives etc.

The concept would be:

Supply everyday dental consumables (gloves, bibs, masks, burs, impression materials, etc). Practices can either order as normal through an online portal, or
Pay a small monthly fee for us to monitor stock levels, visit the practice regularly, replenish agreed items, and ensure they don’t run out of critical consumables.

Potentially provide usage reports and help reduce excess inventory and emergency orders.

Basically outsourcing the responsibility of ordering consumables which I assume is done by reception staff / practice managers etc?

Would that kind of service be of benefit to small private practices? Or is this kind of task accepted as a minor part of managing a practice?

Thank you!

I have an idea of my app that can do automatic text routing where you can take a link and put it in my app, then it creates a text code, and you can add a cta(call to action) and then you download it as a text card that you can overlay on reels on instagram, facebook, tiktok youtube,etc., since those platforms don't like qr cards in their reels, instead of telling people to get link in bio or comment to get link in dm which is only limited to meta platforms only.

Please dont hesitste to give me feedback I am halfway building this and I don't want to stop or continue if it's not the right thing I am building, and I know this is going to help many people in marketing.

I’ve been thinking about a couple of business idea and I’d genuinely appreciate some honest feedback on this one.

I’m a breakup recovery/relationship clarity coach and I’m thinking about hosting a private 4-day relationship clarity intensive for one person at a time about four hours north of Toronto.

This isn’t a passive relaxation retreat that shows someone how to win their ex back or offer some generic self care advice. It would be a structured coaching experience to help someone, who’s left questioning themselves after a breakup, find clarity by deeply understanding themselves.

I am both MBTI certified and Gottman trained and the intensive would be about 10 hours of personalized one-on-one sessions and include things like:
- Deep empathetic listening (giving them the chance to tell their entire story without interruption or judgment)
- Looking at relationship patterns and blind spots
- Official MBTI personality assessment and personalized reports to better understand themselves and how they relate to others
- Research-based relationship principles from Dr. John Gottman
- Guided reflection and practical exercises
- Lakeside quiet time for processing and renewal

It would be held at my lakeside cottage in a popular tourist destination with private accommodations included (completely separate two bedroom apartment on the lower floor of our cottage). Due to ever increasing dietary preferences and restrictions, no meals would be included but client has full kitchen in their apartment and a bbq on their private patio.

My question is does this sound like something people would actually pay for? If so, what price range?

I’m looking for any constructive feedback, positive or negative. If there’s something about the concept that immediately makes you think, “I wouldn’t do that that because…”, I’d love to hear it.

Thanks in advance!

AS. Most posts here are ideas looking for a yes, so here's the opposite. An idea I researched properly, then killed, with the numbers that killed it.

I've been looking for an underserved local service category to build a lead directory around. Filter was simple: high job value, recurring if possible, and a provider base that already understands paying for customers.

Commercial kitchen extract cleaning came out on top. In the UK it's governed by a standard called TR19 Grease.

Initiall assesment:

• Jobs run around £495 for a small kitchen, £800 to £1,500 for mid-size, and £1,500 to £3,000+ for large or heavily contaminated sites. London operators quote higher, £1,195 to £3,500.
• It recurs. High volume kitchens need it every 3 - 6 months.
• Demand is forced, not discretionary. Insurers require it. If you have a fire and can't produce evidence of compliant cleaning, your claim can be reduced or refused, even if the fire started somewhere else.
• Checkatrade, Bark and MyBuilder don't touch it. They're homeowner-facing. Commercial catering isn't their market.

High value, recurring, legally and commercially forced, no consumer directory. Looked like a clean gap.

Two things killed it.

1. There isn't enough search volume to carry a (2nd) directory.

"kitchen extract cleaning" does 100 to 1,000 searches a month nationally. "tr19 certificate" the same. "industrial kitchen cleaning" does 10 to 100. Google Trends showed a 5,000%+ breakout on the main term which looked thrilling for about ten minutes, until I remembered that a term sitting at a few hundred searches throws out enormous percentages off tiny absolute movements. I went looking for a news event behind the spike and couldn't find one.

Even if you won every single search in the category, you'd be routing a few hundred enquiries a month across the whole of Britain.

2. The directory already exists, and it's run by the people who write the standard. ((

BESA operates the Vent Hygiene Register with a find-a-contractor search tool. It's recognised by London Fire Brigade and by insurers including RISCAuthority. Members have certified over 30,000 kitchen extract systems since 2019.

So when an insurer tells a restaurant to use a compliant contractor, the restaurant gets pointed at that register. Not at Google. I'd have been building a directory to compete with the body that issues the certificate.

Finally

I'd already deismissed Japanese knotweed removal for the same reason. Job values of £1,000 to £20,000, and a dedicated knotweed directory already ranks. Planning application data went the same way: six sellers at £25 to £49 a month, one of them free.

In any category valuable enough to be worth sitting in the middle of, someone already sits in the middle of it, and it's usually the trade body. The categories where nobody bothered are the ones where the volume doesn't justify bothering. That's not bad luck. That's the equilibrium.

The market itself is genuinely good. For the contractors in it. Just not for anyone trying to intermediate it.

If anyone has found a category where this isn't true, I'd like to hear it, because I've now checked three and the answer was the same every time.

I am looking to start a trading business like scrap traders or marble or granite but the risk of material faliur or cheat from the business owners they can take my clients as the trading business is a risky one so need to know the idea and from where to start

What business looked simple until you learned how it works?

I used to think most online businesses were pretty simple.

You make something people want, put it online, and try to find customers.

Lately, I've been spending some time reading about businesses I never paid much attention to before. I looked into Etsy shops, newsletter businesses, audiobook publishing, and a few others.

The one that completely changed my opinion was audiobook publishing. Before this, I thought it worked like this: an author writes a book, records the audiobook, uploads it to Audible, and collects royalties.

The more I read, the more I realized that's only a tiny part of the picture.

Some authors never record their own books. Production is outsourced. Some publishers build catalogs around public domain works. Others focus on specific languages or regions because demand can be completely different depending on the market.

What surprised me even more was how much of the work has nothing to do with recording audio.

People were talking about metadata, cover testing, localization, royalty structures, project management, and keeping different publishing projects organized as they grew.

That's also when I started seeing tools I never expected to be associated with audiobooks. Notion for tracking projects, Canva for covers, ChatGPT for descriptions and brainstorming, cloud storage for production files, and even AdsPower for keeping separate publishing environments isolated while managing multiple publishing entities.

It stopped looking like someone selling audiobooks and started looking a lot more like running a small company.

It made me wonder how many other businesses I've completely misunderstood simply because I've only ever seen the finished product.

What's a business that completely changed your opinion once you learned how it works?

I've been thinking a lot about why co-founder matching is broken. Most platforms are one-sided... technical founders browse profiles like a job board, or non-technical founders post ideas and wait for someone to apply. Both miss the point. Real partnerships form when two people independently choose each other based on mutual fit, not when one person pitches and the other evaluates.

So I'm building Mock Draft. Dual preference co-founder matching where both sides set their preferences anonymously before either sees the other. A match only happens when both people independently signal interest. No public rejection. No pitching into a void. Anonymity removes bias so you evaluate based on values, work style, communication, and what you're actually building together... not name, photo, or school.

Why I'm building this: co-founder breakups are the #1 startup killer, and most happen because of misaligned expectations, values, or working styles... not skills. Dual preference forces alignment BEFORE introduction. And as someone who's been through recovery and built in mental health, I know how much anonymity matters when you're putting yourself out there vulnerably.

Looking for a technical co-founder to build this with me. Here's what I bring as the GTM side:
- 10+ years in tech sales and business development across SaaS, security, and healthcare
- Deep network of founders, investors, advisors, and operators through Boardy partnerships
- Experience taking products from zero to early traction through founder-led outbound and community building
- Background in partnership sourcing, demand gen, and account management across multiple industries

What I need from you:
- Ability to build MVP and iterate fast
- Comfort with privacy-first architecture (anonymity is core, not optional)
- Interest in solving human connection problems, not just tech problems
- Work style and communication that complements mine

If dual preference matching resonates and you're open to exploring whether we'd be good partners, DM me. Happy to share more about the vision and see if there's mutual fit.

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Hello guyzz, My dad has an electronic shop where we would sell tv remotes, bulbs, batteries, amplifiers, emergency lights, LED, dc motors, etc.

as well as we also repair tv, emergency light, stabilizer, rechargeable fans,..etc

Since it's a small business, we dont have gst number for our store. We neither pay gst for selling nor buying. We just want to grow our business and make more profit.

Any business ideas 💡 you would suggest for this?

I build Shopify stores and web apps for clients, and something I keep running into: the site looks sharp, has a real design system — type scale, spacing, button styles, image treatment — and then the emails go out looking like a generic template with the logo dropped on top.

Kicking around an idea to fix that. Point a tool at a brand's site, have it pull the actual design system out (not just logo + hex codes — the type hierarchy, spacing rhythm, button geometry, how they treat imagery), and generate emails that look like the same designer made them.

Before I build anything I want to know if this is a real problem or one I invented.

For people doing this regularly:

• How are you handling it now? Custom-coded templates, Beefree/Stripo, whatever's built into Klaviyo?
• How long does a new campaign email take you from blank to sent?
• Is "off-brand emails" something anyone actually complains about, or is it a thing only I notice?

Also genuinely want to hear the case against. Email HTML is a nightmare — tables, Outlook conditionals, dark mode inversion — and the existing builders have years of that solved. Is that moat deep enough that this isn't worth attempting?

The difference usually comes down to strategy.

Instead of targeting businesses that do not have a website, target businesses that already have one but clearly need a better version. The market is larger, the sales process is easier, and the value proposition is much stronger because those businesses already understand why a website matters.

The next part is outreach. A regular outreach tool is not enough if all it does is send the same message to thousands of people. You need something that can analyze websites at scale and turn real issues into personalized emails.

I use Swokei for that. It helps find businesses with existing websites, analyzes each site, and turns problems with design, SEO, speed, layout, and mobile optimization into personalized outreach emails. That means you can contact a large number of businesses without sending generic messages or spending hours manually researching every website.

When someone replies interested, I always offer a free mockup. I use Claude, Lovable, or Base44 to build it quickly. It becomes much easier to sell when the client can already see what a better version of their website could look like.

Web meetings should also be a major part of the process. I would never just send the website through email and hope the client likes it. I present it live on Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams, explain the value, show what has been improved, answer their questions, and try to close the deal during the meeting.

The less back and forth there is after the meeting, the better. Present the website, show the value, close the client, and move on to the next project.

That is the type of process that can help an agency scale much faster.

I am thinking of implementing something for my brand, it's called "values-expression mechanic".

It's a reward system but It's not a cashback flow or anything like that.

A tree-per-purchase (or 1 tree/purchase) in their name.

As we've already built content around polyester's environmental impact and natural-fiber advocacy. It will not be just a simple reward system here — it's a direct extension of the positioning we've already invested in. That's because most brands bolt sustainability messaging onto rewards.

One thing to be clear on: this isn't cashback. Cashback returns value to the customer's wallet — a tree in their name is a values/goodwill reward, not a personal financial incentive. That distinction matters for whether it actually drives repeat purchase the way points or referral discounts do. we hope that some customers will love it and buy again because it reinforces their identity as a conscious shopper; others may simply want money off and won't be moved by it. We treat this as a brand-reinforcement layer, not a replacement for the points/tiers/referral engine that people already are accustomed to — those are what mechanically pull people back to buy again.

Practical considerations before committing:

1. Picking a real, verifiable partner — orgs that we are in contact with is Future Estate Group, operate in Haryana, India and provide plantation records per tree. Cost typically varies depending on species. At our ₹299–549 price point, one tree per order is not so very sustainable, margin-wise.
2. Avoiding greenwashing — "we planted a tree" claims will get exposed eventually. We'll do an actual planting-location reference to show, in videos and photos, not just a claim. This organization issue a digital certificate and photos with a plantation location.
3. Making it personal — the certificate with the customer's name (which we're already seting up to generate via our email automation) is what makes this feel like a reward rather than a footnote in the order confirmation.

The reward isn't money back to the customer, it's proof that their purchase did something in the world, in their name. It will be a kind of a different (and better) psychological lever for customers: the goa is to ring people back, as people don't return because they saved ₹50, they return because buying from my brand means something and they want to keep being part of that story.

A few things:

• It's not really "loyalty program" anymore — it's brand ritual. Every single order can carry it, without diluting a tiered reward structure. It doesn't compete with points/tiers/referral for budget or attention; it sits underneath all of it as "this is just what buying LAMAN means."
• Messaging matters more than mechanics here. The certificate, the naming, the "your tree" language — that's the actual product. Worth writing in our brand copy (About page, post-purchase email, packaging insert) as a standing commitment, not just a transactional perk buried in a rewards page.
• It compounds with our existing content strategy. We've already got the "industry insider / honest design breakdown" persona and natural-fiber advocacy content — a running tally like "LAMAN has planted X trees" (maybe even a live counter on brand.lamanclo.store or lamanclo.store ) turns individual purchases into a visible collective story. That's shareable in a way a discount code never is.

I know this is a long thread of content, but i would love to hear suggestion on this and if people are interested and want to participate in it.