March 24, 2016

Eighteen Business Ideas

I study computer science and philosophy at the University of Waterloo. More than fifty thousand UW and Laurier students study here on University Ave. Computer science and engineering students here have a lot of money. They don’t know what to do with it yet. Arts and business students here have a lot of time. They don’t know what to do with it yet.

Here are eighteen business ideas.

  1. Gamified litter cleanup
  2. Fashion advising consultancy
  3. Tutoring platform where tutors’ reward is studying for their final instead of money
  4. On-demand (< 1 hr) cleaning service
  5. Community-powered math and programming problem marking platform
  6. Videocasting (a la Twitch.tv) for Android phones (this idea wasn’t mine)
  7. Omnipresent app text translation for Android phones
  8. Messaging app conversation sharing platform
  9. Safe, social anxiety free, impromptu event planning and notification platform
  10. Programming storytelling platform (think fmylife.com, but the stories are programs)
  11. Platform to convert emails / IMs into to do list items
  12. To do list with how to guides and next steps advising
  13. Service to determine which app a screenshot is of
  14. Tool to automatically search stack overflow with compiler errors
  15. Scrape twitter to match consultants with people who are stuck or frustrated
  16. Instagram for music: beats, chords, autotune
  17. Reddit with PageRanked votes

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