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                    1. How to find startup ideas? Here're some of the less embarrassing ideas on my personal list. I'll tell you what situations & questions I asked myself to come up with them. A thread 🧵
                      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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                    🛍️ Instamerch I purchased labels and lanyards for conference attendees. All these small merch shops have to source stuff from somewhere, right? Could I be the supplier of this? Maybe create an API. Purchase 2000 pens, blue, my_logo.png, place order.
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                  👕 T-Shirts with nostalgia from Childhood A friend talked with nostalgia about packages she received as a child from the US in East Germany. How can I turn this feeling of nostalgia into money? T-shirt designs? Like alphabet soup, entangled NES controllers, WASD keys, ...
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                🍴 Website Generator for Restaurants How do restaurant create those QR code menus? Can I create a service for that? @levelsio had the same idea and build it a few days later. So idea was validated. Should have executed. I was too late 😅 @levelsio/1322331723816935424
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              💸 Donate to all projects in package.json Many open source projects have trouble funding. What prevents companies from donating? Logistics. Too many projects to keep track. What if there was a service that scans your package.json and distributes money proportionally?
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            📦 Netlify for docker-compose Everybody builds with docker. I build with docker. Nobody likes Kubernetes, it's hard. What would be the easiest solution? Upload your docker-compose.yml file and the service takes care of the rest (networking, scaling, caching)
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          ⏳ Stagetimer A friend was running back-and-forth during a video recording to manually start a timer clock. What if could start a timer from another computer, or even a phone? I thought this was so easy, it became my first paid product.
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        🖥 IT Hardware as a Service for Small Businesses My small-startup CTO complained how much work it is to get laptops for everybody and maintain them. How could this become a service? Client pays monthly; service ships, replaces, maintains hardware.
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      💎 Rank as a Team Ever tried to rank a list as a team? It's hard and takes forever. How can this be improved? What if each member makes a series of A vs. B choices. Then use bubble sort to aggregate a ranking.
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    🎧 Online Calling with 3D Audio Online meetings are hard, they make your brain tired. Maybe because every voice comes from the same direction? Place people in a 3D room instead so voices come from different directions. Would this make it easier on the mind?
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      So to summarize: - Observe situations - Ask questions (How, Why, What, ...) - Think from the user's perspective Let me know if you like these examples, then I'll add some more.