100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas
By Steve Poland • April 29, 2009
With this recession and unemployment so high, there’s likely a lot of people looking to start their own business. Hopefully one of these ideas of mine can provide some inspiration to just one of those people.
I’m formerly a TechCrunch writer, a serial web entrepreneur, and an idea guy. I can’t believe I’ve posted 100+ web start-up business ideas in the past couple years. Below is a compilation of them. They are all for the taking and if they aren’t perfect, hopefully they give you some ideas of your own. If you’ve seen any of these implemented, please post in the comments as I’d love to check them out. And if you know other ‘idea’ websites, please post in the comments for others to visit.
- IDEA #100 – Twitter License Plate social network
- IDEA #99 – Group Learning of Anything in Weeks!
- IDEA #98 – Live Music Concert Tracking
- IDEA #97 – Tagging All Photos with people, places, objects
- IDEA #96 – Agent Intermediary between Celebrities & Web Startups
- IDEA #95 – URL Filter for filtering Adult websites using Google SafeSearch
- IDEA #94 – Dear WTF (aka “Dear Abby for Techies”)
- IDEA #93 – 125×125 Ad-ditional Info Skins (IntermediAds)
- IDEA #92 – Virtual BarCamp (meeting of tech minds)
- IDEA #91 – Captchavertising (”captcha advertising”)
- IDEA #90 – Footer Ads in Email
- IDEA #89 – Clouds in the Sky
- IDEA #88 – Rent Your Twitter Background & Avatar
- IDEA #87 – Plugin to Sync Listening of a Song with Friends
- IDEA #86 – Mint.com but for Health & Fitness
- IDEA #85 – Must See. Must Hear. Must Read. Must DO!
- IDEA #84 – Reskin The Web
- IDEA #83 – Digg for Twitter!
- IDEA #82 – FriendFeed the new Twitter? WTF.
- IDEA #81 – iPhone Photo Plus [iPhone SDK application]
- IDEA #80 – “Techmeme” Monthly Printed Magazine
- IDEA #79 – You Scratch My Back, I’ll Scratch Yours
- IDEA #78 – iTunes Search Engine
- IDEA #77 – Social Search Engine (take on Google)
- IDEA #76 – The Greatest Menu Meals (fb app initially)
- IDEA #75 – Where I Hang Out (facebook app)
- IDEA #74 – FMail (Facebook App)
- IDEA #73 – Friends Categorized as API to other Facebook Apps
- IDEA #72 – Digg for Facebook Photos
- IDEA #71 – User-Gen Opinionated Videos, Photos, or Text (Facebook App)
- IDEA #70 – Voting for Video Stars (Facebook App)
- IDEA #69 – Get Users Pulling Info From Others (Facebook App)
- IDEA #68 – Instructing Users to Collectively Participate (Facebook)
- IDEA #67 – Desktop/Mobile IM Client for Facebook
- IDEA #66 – Polls on Current News (Facebook App)
- IDEA #65 – Universal Login that verifies/ties your Digg, MySpace, FB, etc Accounts together
- IDEA #64 – AuctionAds copycat using Affiliate Product DB or just Amazon.com’s Product DB
- IDEA #63 – Become the next Michael Arrington
- IDEA #62 – Reincarnate Yub.com, but on Facebook
- IDEA #61 – Music Affiliate JavaScript Blog Include
- IDEA #60 – Video Search from the Audio
- IDEA #59 – Music News and Concert Dates for your Favorite Bands
- IDEA #58 – Politics: Who Should You Vote For?
- IDEA #57A – Social Networking via your RSS subscriptions
- IDEA #57 – RSS Reader Influenced By Your Peers
- IDEA #56 – Web Hosting Company using Amazon S3
- IDEA #55 – Flickr photo editing and printing software
- IDEA #54 – The Food Made Me Sick
- IDEA #53 – Everyone Gets Sick
- IDEA #52 – Search Revenues Benefit Charities
- IDEA #51 – Email via Snail Mail, for free!
- IDEA #50 – Fantasy Sport League Widgets
- IDEA #49 – Buy Music, Help Charities
- IDEA #48A – Printed Volumes Of Your Online Reading
- IDEA #48 – Personalized Printed Magazines and Catalogs
- IDEA #47 – Video Trains and Tracking
- IDEA #46 – Who Do You Vouch For?
- IDEA #45 – Social Connections Search Engine
- IDEA #44 – Everyone’s An Expert
- IDEA #43 – Everyone Has Neighbors
- IDEA #42 – Audio Ads Network Provider
- IDEA #41- Digg based on Your Friends and Network
- IDEA #40 cont’d – The Marketing Ideas
- IDEA #40 cont’d – Differentiate, Get Users, Then Revenues
- IDEA #40 cont’d – Primary Functionality Specifications
- IDEA #40 cont’d – The Functionality Launch “Essentials”
- IDEA #40 cont’d – All Functionality and Features Outlined
- IDEA #40 – Capturing Your View on Everything (events, topics, websites, businesses, products)
- IDEA #39 – Aggregated Event Photos/Videos (everyone’s views)
- IDEA #38 – Invest in a Music Band! Fantasy Music Stock Game
- IDEA #37 – Viral Anonymous Positive Comment Network
- IDEA #36 – Social Audio / Video Recommendations
- IDEA #35 – In-Store, On-Product, More Information Call / Text
- IDEA #34 – Apartments For Rent (Auto-Updated Weekly)
- IDEA #33 – Motel Pricing and Availability by Phone
- IDEA #32 – Online Video Embed Code Piggy-Backing
- IDEA #31 – Stock Market Social Media Tracker
- IDEA #30 – People Meter – Who’s Who Of The World 500 Ranking List
- IDEA #29 – Your Comments on Any Webpage
- IDEA #28 – Fan-submitted Music Video Ideas
- IDEA #27 – Lunch/Dinner/Bar Specials – Updated Daily
- IDEA #26C – Job Postings – Details by Voicemail Message
- IDEA #26B – Auto Details and Photos to your Cell
- IDEA #26A – For Rent/Sale – View Info & Photos Instantly
- IDEA #25 – Blogroll Advertising Network
- IDEA #24 – Our Overlapping Website Viewing Habits
- IDEA #23 – Your Syndicated Chronological Life
- IDEA #22 – Amazon.com Social Networking
- IDEA #21 – Remynders.com
- IDEA #20 – Finding the Employee Leak
- IDEA #19 – Bookmarks as Image Screenshots
- IDEA #18 – Custom Music/Sports T-Shirts
- IDEA #17 – Audio Chatting by Phone
- IDEA #16 – What’s Going On Tonight
- IDEA #15 – Ads on Websites Replaced
- IDEA #14 – Ads with Personal Endorsements (filtered ad network)
- IDEA #13 – I Got Drunk Last Night
- IDEA #12 – E-Cards with Your Voice (and bonus ideas)
- IDEA #11 – Classifieds by Cell – The Long Tail of Used Goods that has yet to Emerge
- IDEA #10 – In-Person Social Networking – Event/Bar Mingling via Cell
- IDEA #9 additions – Online Videos Archived For Life
- IDEA #9 – Pay-Per-Play Videos (PPPV): The YouTube Differentiator
- IDEA #8 – Anonymous Email Address to Your Cell
- IDEA #7 – Video Comments Plugin for Blogs
- IDEA #6 additions – LikeLoveOrHate.com (adds user compatibility ratings; dating / event capabilities)
- IDEA #6 – LikeLoveOrHate.com (a HotOrNot for interests — products, fads, movies, music, etc)
- IDEA #5 – Video & Audio Ratings of Transactions (Businesses/Products/People)
- IDEA #4 – The MySpace Killer? Proximity Social Networking
- IDEA #3 – ShareMy.net (”share my internet”)
- IDEA #2 – Print-On-Demand Books at Airports
- IDEA #1 – Multiple callers-to-text transcription software
- All My Web Ideas, are all Yours
Related posts:
- Twilio ideas brainstorm: SMS, Voice, API If anyone is looking for some business/application ideas for using Twilio … I have had some SMS & VXML ideas in the past. I think using SMS to send URLs to the user, so they...
- 10 Twitter Hack Start-Up Ideas 10 Twitter application ideas — with or without their API are below. Be sure to throw some Google AdSense around any of these ideas to get a little monetization out of your project. digg interface...
- The Largest Social Network In World, Untapped I was at Web 2.0 Expo last month in San Fran and during a press interview sit-down session, Tim O’Reilly said something that was a “wow” moment for me — I just had never really...
- SHARE: Web Start-Up Idea Websites I drifted over to Techquila Shots reader Timothy Chen’s website, “Idea is Queen!” where he is writing out his ideas. What other websites do you read that are brainstorming web-based start-up ideas? Or (links for)...
- Evaluating Criteria for your Web 2.0 Business Idea I’d like to start a discussion about evaluating your business ideas — and determining which one to run with and build a start-up out of. What criteria do you feel are important? How can each...
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Comments
13 Responses to “100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas”
Got something to say?



you forgot “scale.com”. you get on your keyboard and the website tells you your weight.
[...] via » 100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas – By Steve Poland – web startup ideas and brainstorms, straight…. [...]
I like your submission on videos. For progressive business need the video marketing because this world is video marketing world. And video marketing and launches some business videos to promote your business.
WOW. I thought I was an ideas person. I’m inspired. I think I’m gonna start a list too =D.
wow! what a great list!!!! awesome
Mike Hedge
great list. i want try some item
[...] and now the application is all over the place. Check these ideas out Steve Poland has outlined 100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas that are worth your [...]
Amazing list from the expert…i should try some
thanks a lot..
bootpress
Steve, great list. You’ve done what I just planned to do. I look up to you. I feel inspired.
Currently at #21, my plan is 100 ideas in 100 days.
windwil.com
[...] and now the application is all over the place. Check these ideas out Steve Poland has outlined 100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas that are worth your time. Categories: Ideas Tags: Ideas Comments (1) Trackbacks (0) Leave [...]
Lots of ideas that can scale and become good companies.Ilike mint for health.Check out lots of other ideas here.http://startupjournal.wordpress.com/
My idea is http://www.my-favorite-websites.com/ allows you to import your favorites so you have access to them where-ever you go.
Its doing pretty well so, i get 1000 favorites imported every 10 days or so and 20 new users a week.
Steve I have to be honest. At first I was ashamed. Why? Because as I readi your article, I did not completely finish looking at all of the 100 ideas via the links.
But then I saw the discount at the top for istockphoto. That made me smile because I can use that. It can be my excuse for not completing my look at all 100 of the ideas.
Then I was guilty. You have a link for me with a discount and I do not give anything back?
So. To make it up for you and give at least $25 in value. (or more) I blogged about your post and gave it my review.
http://www.michaelhartzell.com/Blog/bid/34306/100-Start-up-Business-Ideas-for-the-Web-from-Steve-Poland
While it looks like you are already famous, I figured there is always room for jello so I added hot water and went for it.
In the end I am appreciative and a little in awe of one hundred.
Hope we are even now.
@michaelhartzell