- Conversational AI assistant for email and messages
- A tool for companies to connect task management systems
- A service that buys things on your behalf at the lowest prices
- Custom Telegram client for crypto speculation
- Custom Telegram client for enterprise collaboration
- Competitor monitoring as a service
- Lightweight offline Notion app
- Conversational assistant for toddlers
- Programmatic endpoint comparison tool
- Syncing data from any internal tool
- Problems that pique my curiosity
- Native ad embedding in LLM responses
- SDK to manage browser ad targeting APIs
- O-1 Visa as a service
- VC Intro database as a service
- Not thought through
Conversational AI assistant for email and messages
Problem: Professionals are too busy to sit down in front of a phone or computer to triage email.
Solution: Phone-based service where an AI summarizes each email and lets you act on emails in a conversational audio manner. This service can be extended to messages, to-do lists, etc.
A tool for companies to connect task management systems
Problem: When engineering teams for data providers and customers work together, EM/PMs spend repetitive and manual effort relaying information over Slack and Google Docs.
Solution: Tool for data providers to sync task status from their internal task management system to a shared page that customer companies can access.
A service that buys things on your behalf at the lowest prices
Problem: When I make a large purchase, I want to get the biggest savings, but online tools quickly apply discount codes, but never discounted gift cards.
Solution: Chrome extension that shows you how much you can save with a gift card, and lets you easily purchase a gift card for use.
Custom Telegram client for crypto speculation
Problem: Users using Telegram trading bots find it overwhelming with a new lengthy text message with every click.
Solution: A custom Telegram client that makes interacting with trading bots feel like using an app, where buttons stay in one place and information is shown in a streamlined manner.
Custom Telegram client for enterprise collaboration
Problem: Most crypto companies handle partnerships over Telegram, but this is an ineffective channel to manage tasks, scheduling, and message search.
Solution: A custom Telegram client that integrates with Slack, CRM, Jira, and more.
Competitor monitoring as a service
Problem: It’s hard for product and design teams to monitor feature updates from competitors.
Solution: A service that continually refreshes and monitors apps and webapps for feature changes.
Lightweight offline Notion app
Problem: Offline mode has been the #1 user request for Notion for many years, but Notion will likely never implement this because too many features are handled server-side.
Solution: Build an offline Notion app with limited functionality.
Conversational assistant for toddlers
Problem: Toddlers watching YouTube end up watching and listening, but not talking, because they understand interactivity.
Solution: Build an audio assistant that converses with toddlers and helps them practice words they’re not saying well. This could be via an iPad app or TV attachment.
Programmatic endpoint comparison tool
Problem: Programmatic comparison between two endpoint providers isn’t easy to do.
Solution: A tool that given two API endpoints and params, identifies differences in response data and latency, and makes it easy to dig further.
Syncing data from any internal tool
Problem: It’s manual and repetitive copying results from internal tools like custom dashboards or A/B result scorecards into docs.
Solution: An add-on for Google Docs or Notion to sync data live from another browser tab.
Problems that pique my curiosity
Here are ones that I haven’t personally encountered and do not have domain expertise in.
Native ad embedding in LLM responses
Problem: Costs of training and running LLMs are very high such that best models aren't deployed and aren’t free
Solution: An API to embed ads natively into text, photos, or videos. This is done in realtime, based on the content returned, contextual situation, and user details. A smaller LLM could identify opportunities and regenerate the response to include the ad.
SDK to manage browser ad targeting APIs
Problem: As cookies are deprecated, every browser has a different API to share user cohort and retargeting data
Solution: An easy-to-use SDK for publishers that seamlessly works with each browser’s ad targeting APIs to maximize revenue per website visitor.
O-1 Visa as a service
Problem: O-1 Visas are the best way for founders to work in the USA, but they’re difficult to get, the process is unclear, and are very expensive. Tweet
Solution: A tech-enabled platform to make it easier, and cheaper, to get them
Thoughts: O-1 is a lot less paperwork, but getting peer endorsements, so tech helps a lot less. It’s also a feature for Boundless.com, rather than a new product.
VC Intro database as a service
Problem: Founders want intros, but it’s significant back-and-forth to ask investors for intros.
Solution: Searchable database where VCs input their connections, and founders can search. Build Cerebro, by 776, for other VC firms.
Thoughts: Could initially be low TAM. But could be great when it expands to personal too, and imagine the AI takes in social media posts from your friends. You can ask “Who’s been to Japan?” or “Who would be interested in a poker night?”
Not thought through
- No-code website generator for simple tools, that have built in monetization
- Eg. Help me build https://eth-converter.com/, https://convertcase.net/, or a JPG-PNG conversion website
- A lot of folks around the world use websites like these but only developers know how to build them.
- Yep.so → Help people build landing pages quickly, has built in in-take form, etc.
- Converter.so → Help people build simple tool pages quickly, add in Google Ads already, etc.