15 Free Business Ideas

Inspired by this 2+2 thread Your ideas are worthless and I’m here to prove it Here are fifteen free business ideas I have come up with over the past couple of months. Feel free to steal them, let me know if you want to collaborate/partner with me on any of them or give me feedback on them. The only disclaimer is I have done exactly no market research on them to determine if these products already exist or anyone would even want them.

1. Elance.com but for contractors and localized (they always rip ppl off and overcharge, would be nice if they could bid on jobs online and users could read previous customer reviews)

2. Pet collar gps/pedometer so you never lose your dog and can see how much your dog exercised each day

3. Watch with pedometer

4. Survivor reality show broadcast 24/7 instead of the usual 1 hr recap of 3 days

5. Grant applying service for professors. Professors want to do research. It’s what they are good at and what they love doing. They do not want to beg for money. You could make a business that writes grant requests on behalf of professors.

6. Pickup game app. It’s hard to find a bunch of people to play a basketball/baseball/whatever sport pickup game. App would put people who are in close proximity to each other that want to play sport together

7. Movies tickets are all the same price. Don’t know what the business idea here is exactly but there has to be some sort of arbitrage opportunity. It costs the same price to go see any movie at the movie theater, but Avatar cost like $200 million to make and Slumdog Millionaire costs like $5 million. Clearly a ticket to go see Avatar should cost more.

8. Facetime app with Miis. Facetime app except instead of actually seeing video of each other, you see an avatar that the other person can control/make do things like smile, be sad etc

9. Clothing size conversion app between different clothes retailers. Is a Gap medium a Banana Republic Large?

10. iPhone speakers that take over the audio playing for your phone when you set it near them so no need to actually plug your phone into the player

11. American made app. App/website that lists American made products.

12. Lunch hour app. Instead of a happy hour app, an app that shows only lunch specials

13. An app idea submission website. Everyone submits app ideas and people vote on what they think the best idea is. The one that wins gets a cash prize.

14. A smart fridge that automatically orders groceries for you to be delivered by Amazon Fresh/whoever. I think this one is quite a few years away but it will happen eventually. There’s a couple food items that people always need to have in their fridge: milk, eggs, bread etc. Why bother going to grocery shopping when you can just have your fridge automatically order a new batch when the last one’s getting low?

15. Smart razor and smart toothbrush. All our electronic devices are going to be hooked up to the internet eventually so a razor and toothbrush seems like a natural progression. The idea would be that you could look at your phone and look at how long you brush your teeth on average, at what times you brush, if it were smart enough, how you could improve your brushing technique. You could get points for flossing etc.