💡 Ideas AI

Startup ideas are 100% generated by AI, without human involvement, and trained by you and 1,947,245+ other people who liked or disliked ideas. How it works

Itself Startup Ideas

3 years ago

A portable battery that can charge your smartphone up to 100 times without charging itself. It relies on solar power to charge.

315

4 years ago

A startup that provides a gamified platform to help businesses understand and improve products and services to their customers. The startup sees itself as a kind of “Twilio for data”.

260

5 years ago

A company that makes a fully-functioning smartwatch that charges itself.

252

4 years ago

A company that provides software that helps small businesses to operate better, faster, and more efficiently. It’s a cloud-based service that helps small businesses staff sales, accounting, and other functions. The startup has raised over $4.6 million in funding, and found itself in the news recently for an employee lawsuit.

205

4 years ago

The startup is pitching itself as a “Google Docs for people who have a hard time in meetings”.

175

5 years ago

A solar-powered $15,000 jacket that generates energy from the sun and has a built-in battery to charge itself.

173

5 years ago

A peer-to-peer lending company that focuses on college students. The company says it’s in talks with a few large consumer finance companies and would like to see itself included in student loan refinancing programs. They’re based in Delaware.

163

5 years ago

a mobile payments system for India. The startup is pitching itself as a cheaper alternative to the likes of Google Wallet and Paytm.

155

5 years ago

The startup replaces the traditional “explainer video” with “explainer video docs” in which the video is just a version of the product itself.

152

5 years ago

A mobile app for small businesses to find the best deals for their products. The goal is to get people to comparison shop within the app itself, rather than using Yelp, CVS, or the Amazon Alexa hub.

152

5 years ago

A fingerprint-based unlock system for phones. The startup is trying to make fingerprint sensors more secure by having users open their phones in a certain way and secure them. This is a startup that has been around for a while, with a version known as SnapLock, but it is now rebranding itself as Fingerprint Lock.

151

3 years ago

A San Francisco-based startup that is building a smartphone app that connects with a companion device that enables users to plug their phone into a charger, then plug their phone into other devices, like their car, so it can charge itself.

150

5 years ago

A startup that is building a mobile app to help connect owners of both old and new cars in a seamless way, using data from the car itself and from the cloud to provide information.

148

3 years ago

An AI powered call center that promises to help businesses tackle customer service issues more effectively. The startup calls itself “the first AI-powered call center” and claims to be able to solve customer service issues more efficiently than humans. The startup is currently in closed beta in the US.

148

5 years ago

A startup that bills itself as a “Facebook for travel”, it allows users to share travel plans with family and friends

146

5 years ago

A startup that bills itself as the “Uber for teachers”.

142

5 years ago

Pitching itself as “YELP for your personal life”, this startup attempts to make home-sharing a lot easier.

139

5 years ago

This startup pitches itself as a “social network for developers”, with an emphasis on the “social” part.

136

4 years ago

A bike-sharing startup that has raised $5 million and launched in Seattle. The company bills itself as the Uber of bikes, and promises bikes that arrive within five minutes of being requested.

135

5 years ago

This is a project management platform with two components. The first is the product, a team collaboration tool that connects members to the other tools they use for project management. The second is the company itself, which focuses on building software to help teams achieve their goals.

133

5 years ago

This startup is building a smart door lock that learns to open itself based on who’s trying to enter.

133

2 years ago

As a company, they offer a laundry service, but their platform itself is an online marketplace where anyone can sell and buy cleaning products, offering a function similar to that of eBay or Amazon (but for cleaning products.)

129

5 years ago

The company’s product is the same thing as the company itself — a platform for "instant" test-driven development. They’ve raised $25 million in funding to date.

124

4 years ago

A startup that advertises itself as “the Airbnb of villages.” The company is building a marketplace for rural villages in India, where villagers can rent out their rooms for short-term stays.

123

5 years ago

This startup helps small businesses build websites from scratch using HTML5, CSS, and Google Fonts. The startup takes care of things like a logo, social media, fancy blog posts, and of course, the website itself. The startup is based in New York.

121

5 years ago

A tool that helps people find the best travel deals, picking up on the long tail of unadvertised fares. The startup is pitching itself as a sort of early booking agent, where customers can search for flights and then call in to a travel agent.

120

3 years ago

An online platform that helps users build and manage a team of freelancers, with the company itself acting only as a middle-man. It’s a more sustainable alternative to traditional freelancing platforms like Upwork, and the company wants to use its own experience to help other companies build their own.

116

3 years ago

A tool for managing and customizing Gmail, combining the power of Gmail itself with an interface for adding features that make it faster and easier to work with.

114

5 years ago

A device for the elderly that monitors what’s going on with their blood pressure, pulse, and oxygen levels. The company also wants to build a “elderly safe” home that automatically adjusts itself to the needs of the elderly.

111

4 years ago 1 views

A startup that calls itself the Amazon of homeopathic products. The company sells and ships over a hundred products to consumers, including aromatherapy oils that help people relax. It’s the leading homeopathic e-commerce site in the UK.

110

5 years ago

A digital tool that helps people manage their finances. The startup is pitching itself as a tool to help people manage their cash flow and manage debt.

109

5 years ago

The "Y Combinator Blog" is a blog that provides updates about YC companies along with news about YC itself and the startup community.

108

4 years ago

A program for graduating students to match them with jobs and internships, pitching itself as an alternative to unpaid internships.

107

4 years ago

A platform that helps users find great deals from local businesses, but don’t have to go to the store. The startup sees itself competing with Groupon, although it hopes to target smaller businesses and compete with Groupon’s recent move to focus on higher-margin, bigger deals.

104

4 years ago

An AI that can teach itself to write new code.

102

4 years ago

The startup is pitching itself as a “social ATM” that will let you make payments in person and online through a single app

101

5 years ago

A company that wants to change how people pay for electric vehicles. It’s currently working with several large corporations and making a name for itself in the space.

96

4 years ago

This personal finance startup wants to help people build a complete and accurate picture of their finances. The startup itself is based on a DIY personal finance blog.

94

4 years ago

The idea is to help companies like Uber, Lyft, and others in the ride-sharing space figure out how to spend their capital more effectively. Lyft itself is working with a number of startups to do just that.

92

4 years ago

A platform for managing online communities, the startup says it “dedicates itself to creating healthy, productive, creative online communities.”

91

4 years ago

San Francisco-based startups, the city is famous for being “the capital of startups.” However, in recent years, the city has begun to lose its startup scene to other locales in the Bay Area, particularly Oakland, San Jose and San Francisco itself.

89

4 years ago

A “machine-learning” startup that builds self-driving cars that can navigate in most environments and drive itself.

87

4 years ago

A company that helps businesses buy back unused inventory from itself, then resell those that are still in good condition.

86

3 years ago

A company that markets itself as the “Netflix for podcasts”, the startup allows users to get digital access to podcasts for $5 per month.

81

4 years ago

This startup is building a device that allows anyone to send a text message from their computer to a phone number. The device itself is a wristband with a camera and a way to send a photo via a text message.

79

4 years ago

A tool for building mobile applications for iOS and Android. AppLocale bills itself as the “Swiss army knife of mobile.” It is a full-stack UI toolkit with a drag-and-drop builder, APIs, and SDKs.

78

4 years ago

A product that allows people to build mini-websites with content, all of which are connected to Twitter. The startup is using the funding to build more of a team, with the goal of launching the product itself.

77

3 years ago

A startup that calls itself “your logistics concierge”, with a focus on big international companies

77

2 years ago

A startup that helps people find the closest parking spots in a city, with parking data sourced from the city itself.

76

4 years ago

Pitching itself as a “Yelp for people”, the startup is a curation app for people looking for to work from home gigs.

75

4 years ago

An alternative to the pay-per-click model of web advertising that’s based on a subscription model rather than a pay-per-click scheme. It’s pitching itself as a way for both marketers and consumers to get the information they want.

72

4 years ago

Our team is trying to disrupt the world of product development by creating a platform that allows startups to focus on great product ideas instead of building the product itself.

69

3 years ago

A new hardware platform for the Internet of Things that lets hardware be built with a common set of APIs. The hardware itself is open source, and the company will work with developers to make the hardware work with other software.

69

3 years ago

A company that makes a smart doormat, which is to say, a smart door mat that can open and lock itself when you’re at home.

69

3 years ago

Real-time feedback for the early adopters of any new product or service. The startup uses polls and comments on the product itself to determine if people like the new product or not.

69

3 years ago

A startup that is building an IoT-based smart home system, with an inbuilt app that you can use to control your home. The idea is that the startup itself is a hardware hub, connecting hardware from different vendors with a single app. The company is backed by Y Combinator.

68

4 years ago

A startup that wants to move from the “iPhone to the iPhone”. Instead of building apps for the iPhone itself, they’re building specialized apps for all of the things you can do with an iPhone. For example, they recently launched an app that lets you control your Nest thermostat with your iPhone and use it as a webcam.

65

3 years ago

A real-time video editor for Facebook live videos, allowing for easy video editing in the browser. The startup calls itself a “Tay” for video, and has built a following of 4,000 users in 2 months.

64

4 years ago

This company is designing an app that allows people to make their own items of clothing and sell them to consumers on the app. The startup also wants to move into the fashion space itself.

63

4 years ago

The startup is building a service for small businesses to sell their products on Amazon, but for a fee set by the seller (rather than Amazon itself.)

62

3 years ago

A startup for selling and buying bike parts, from the bike itself to lights and seats.

62

4 years ago

A tool for teachers to automatically make links fit the curriculum. The startup has built a tool that generates links to lesson plans, which are then embedded into the lesson plan itself.

61

4 years ago

A platform that allows a business to rent space in their storefront for shoppers to use to do their own shopping. This is done either by the business itself or by a third party that acts as an agent.

59

3 years ago

A startup that wants to build video games to help people get over their phobias of public speaking and public speaking itself

59

3 years ago

A company that assists small, local businesses obtain loans. The company doesn’t lend money itself, but instead works with other lenders to provide them with the data they need to be able to make their own loan decisions.

57

3 years ago

A bus pass for seniors, priced at $20 per month, and automatically renewing itself for 10 months.

55

3 years ago

This company, which was founded in 2015, helps companies hire workers in the Philippines. It uses a mobile app to connect recruiters with workers and to manage the work itself.

54

3 years ago

A startup for real estate professionals, pitching itself as a Google for real estate agents.

54

3 years ago

A software development startup that uses Slack to streamline the process of creating new apps, and has moved on to building new apps and services itself.

53

3 years ago

A digital assistant to help busy people around the world manage their finances. The startup compares itself to the digital assistants in both Apple’s Siri and Google Now, but with a different purpose built for managing finances.

52

3 years ago

WeChat is a messaging app popular in China that’s being developed by a company that’s not even based in China, instead choosing to base itself in Hong Kong. The app is similar to Whatsapp, but with a focus on shopping and gaming.

48

3 years ago

One of the most significant investments to come out of Y Combinator in 2014 was a $500,000 seed funding round for Linchpin. The company has since been working on a tool that helps small business owners organize and market their brands. The company is looking to raise a $1.5 million seed round to reach the point of paying for itself.

47

3 years ago

A customer support and live chat software for retailers. The startup sees itself as a competitor to other marketplaces like Zendesk, LivePerson, and Zendesk Live Chat.

46

3 years ago

A startup with a very unusual (but interesting) business model. Instead of charging a monthly fee, Mattermark sells itself as a kind of “product research service” to customers, who pay when they find an investment-worthy stock.

45

2 years ago

This startup is developing a way to deploy software at the speed of telecom. The company wants to make it so that your phone can update itself whenever you upgrade your phone, rather than having to wait for your provider’s OS to update and then waiting for the app to be updated.

45

3 years ago

A startup that bills itself as an online marketplace for sourcing, buying and selling of used medical equipment across the world.

44

2 years ago

This startup helps customers track their usage and compare it against other people. The startup sees itself as a way to “force everyone to be more energy efficient.”

44

5 years ago

Idea: A new kind of ecommerce platform for physical goods, where every product page has a video embedded. The company calls itself “a new kind of ecommerce platform for physical goods, where every product page has a video embedded.” Users can watch videos to hear the story behind the product, or if they want, can touch the screen and hear the video narrated by a voiceover.

42

3 years ago

A funding platform for young companies, pitching itself as a startup investment club.

41

2 years ago

A company focused on helping people build a business that can sustain itself for the long term in the face of rising costs and unstable internet connectivity.

38

2 years ago

Personal finance tool with an emphasis on budgeting. The startup is pitching itself as a one-stop shop for personal finance.

38

2 years ago

A fintech company with a focus on credit products for women. The company is pitching itself as a cheaper alternative to the big banks, and is already working with a number of small businesses.

37

2 years ago

As a brewer, you often see people wearing a t-shirt with a beer name on it. This startup is working on a way for you to get the beer right on the shirt itself.

35

3 years ago 5 views

This startup is building a way to build decentralized apps on mobile devices. The startup wants to make it possible for people to build apps that require access to data that can only be obtained by getting in touch with the organization itself — like an app that helps you find your insurance agent.

34

2 years ago

A platform for assembling apps, focused on developing mobile games. The company specializes in two categories: “advergames”, which are games that the company makes itself, and “mobile games”, which are made by third-party developers and sold through the portal.

32

2 years ago

Idrobot is building a modular robotic platform inspired by the 3-D printer, and a robot that can assemble itself.

32

2 years ago 1 views

A tool that helps people build sites. The startup calls itself an “aspiring developer” that helps people quickly build sites.

31

2 years ago

The company’s premise is that a bicycle can be more powerful than a car. Instead of using a motor to move itself, it uses an electric motor to provide power, which it says is more efficient and cheaper than a car. The company wants to launch in the US and Europe by 2022.

25

2 years ago

This startup is building a software platform that helps companies manage all their different software products, including custom software applications built by the company itself.

23

2 years ago

A stock that tracks the performance of the public company’s employees, rather than the company itself.

23

2 years ago

After a founder saw a local family in need of a shelter, they started doing research and realized that there was still a need for a local shelter for homeless pets in San Francisco. As a result, the startup found a way to raise money for a local shelter to help homeless pets, and is now funded to run the shelter itself.

23

2 years ago

This is a system that allows a car to self-park itself in a tight space, and gives the driver the option to hit the brakes if they’re not happy with how close the car is parked.

23

2 years ago

A recipe app for the home cook, with a focus on the Asian market. The startup sells itself as a “hobby” — a term that the founders say is an important part of the company’s appeal.

16

2 years ago

A startup that pitches itself as a “communications tool that allows you to easily create, schedule, and manage meetups.”

16

2 years ago

This Bangalore-based startup is pitching itself as a tool for completing tasks in a snap

13

2 years ago

Built by a group of UCLA Ph.D. students, noXplore is a self-driving car that can be driven by a human driver, who can take the wheel for short periods of time. The company is pitching itself to advertisers who want to run test ads on real public streets but can’t afford a full-scale fleet of cars.

9

5 years ago

Idea: This startup is building a way to automate the process of filling out web forms. It’s also pitching itself as a way to collect data on form completion rates, and build a more familiar conversational experience with the site.

3

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can buy a non-perishable dinner, put it in your freezer and it will cook itself

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A company that makes high-tech socks that help athletes recover from foot injuries The startup has $10,000 in monthly sales, counting Y Combinator itself as one of its customers

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A voice assistant platform for businesses, pitching itself as a channel through which businesses can interact with customers.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: This is the company behind the Bodega app, which calls itself a “Bodega box that comes with a free human.” The startup is building an app for small convenience stores in order to make shopping for milk, eggs, and other items more convenient. Its founders are betting that by bringing in a human to help customers, they’ll be able to differentiate from other convenience stores.

-1

💡 Ideas + 🪲 Bugs

42ms