5 AI Startup Ideas So Good You’ll Quit Your Job in 24hrs

Steph Smith, I've been trying to get you to come  on the podcast for eternity. Eternity. And it's finally happened.

You're the queen of trends,  the queen of ideas. You can't set me up that. And I heard you're bringing the sauce today, so  I'm excited about it.

We'll see. We'll see. So what do we got?

So I'm giving away $5,000 so you  can build your startup idea. Now, $5,000, you can actually do a lot with nowadays. You probably can  build a startup with $500.

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and enjoy this  episode. Your prompt to me was, you know, we're in this crazy new AI world, and so I have two groups  of ideas. One of them is, you know, kind of using AI to build different ideas, but then the second  half is, , we're in this world where things are changing quickly.

what still stays the same or  what is actually kind of tech agnostic that I think becomes even more important, kind of along  the thread where people are , oh, chess, you know, computers beat humans a long time ago, but somehow  people are still watching humans, something along that thread of just what actually doesn't really  get disrupted in this new world. And by the end of this episode, what do you think people are going  to get out of this? Hopefully a way of thinking about, again, this kind of barbelled world and  then just a bunch of new ideas in both categories.

For free. For free. Oh my God.

All right, let's  get into it. All right. So a few of these are kind of just things my requests for startups. 

So one of them is, you know, an open pages, right? Lots of startups have them, right? They  basically are these pages where people who choose to share their stats openly often, revenue users,  things that, decide to put that in the open.

And there's these cool open pages with charts and  things that. Not that many people have been able to build those pages in the past, and they've been  kind of selective in that they only cover revenue. But a few years ago, I created an open page that  was more about my life, right?

So it's , what books am I reading? I'm trying to exercise X  percent of days. How am I doing with that?

And I think we're now in this world where, as you  know, just about anyone can create something, whip up a page in Cursor or Bolt or some of these  new companies. But I also think there's an opening for someone to create the open page creator for  just about anything. What supplements is someone taking?

Again, how are they exercising? What is  their glucose monitor saying? And obviously they can select what they want to show.

But I feel  that is something that in the past people just, it would have been too difficult to create and  too difficult to create the slew of different kind of categories or things to display on the  page. , but what do you think? I, I think it's, it's, it's kind of two things.

One, I think it's,  you know, the technology allows you to actually create these pages. So that's huge. But also I  think people want the social, social motivation to actually, you know, , do things, right so Strava  yes I'm not a runner but every runner I meet talks it's hey what's your name I'm on Strava you know  it's it's they they love talking about it so I just feel for me that's validation that there's an  opportunity to people care about leaderboards and social motivation yeah and the open page I created  years ago still to date is one of the things, even though I never promote it, that I get contacted  about the most.

And often it's , how do I create my own? Or , basically, , I want to set up the  same thing, but as you're saying for running or some other part of my life. Let me show you an  example of this is I'm biased because my husband created this, but he learned to use cursor, and he  never coded before.

And he created this stats page for his surfing. And so it's basically, again, the  same idea that you might for a startup and their revenue. But instead, it's thanks to his tracker  for how often he's surfing, where he's surfing, who he's surfing with, his GitHub tracker for his  surfing and how often he's getting a session in, how he's tracking against his goal.

How did he  create this? He used Cursor. Literally.

Yes. And so that's the thing. I think a lot of people think  that Cursor is the one shot.

You get a static landing page and that's all. But if you actually  learn to use the tool, we're at a point where he, by the way, was the kind of person who I tried to  get to learn to code so many times and never did it. And now, you know, this is a pretty there's  dynamic animations on the page.

When you come in here waving, you can email him. Again, there's  this tracker of how often he's doing something. If you go to the breaks page, you can see the breaks  he's surfing at.

You can learn about them. So this is a kind of one, a solid representation of what  he's doing. But I also think the interesting thing about open pages is it's almost a reflection of  your personality.

And I know that sounds woo woo, but it's you are kind of creating a combination of  art and data that reflects your life. And for him, that's surfing. But for someone else, it might be  running, as you said, or , what would you create an open page for?

Right now, probably tennis.  There you go. Yeah, right now, tennis.

Yeah. And there's no tool today that would represent tennis  probably in the way you want, both visually, but also the metrics that you want to track or  the things that you care about, who you're facing, how you're doing, how you're improving. , and  so today more than for sure three years ago, you can do that and you can do this by the way  in a matter of days or weeks.

I think another big trend obviously is sobriety Yeah So I think  having that how many days you been sober you know how many you know the last time you had a drink  I think that could be huge also Exactly So there both the software for one if someone wants to go  create this on their own behalf where they yes I on this sobriety journey and I want to be able to  display this in my own unique unique way to people but then there's also who can go and create  this software for someone who's not willing to learn cursor and spend a few weeks in there to  basically create something that's modular and that is customizable for people and their unique tennis  or drinking goals. Also people if you don't have a personal website yeah just make a personal website  yeah I feel do you have a personal website I do I imagine you didn't I just try I just trashed  everyone who didn't no no I have one and by the way that was one of the first things I created  when I started you know being a quote creator in 2017 or 2018. And that got me connected to so many  people as well, because instead of creating it on some, you know, website creator Squarespace, I  also taught myself to code and made it custom to, again, the way I wanted to show up.

And I had  so many people David Perel in his very first writing cohort for Rite of Passage. He featured  that because he was , look at this creator who is not creating the kind of standard landing page.  And again, I think it's a way to tell people how you want to show up by actually creating something  that's , again, a visual representation of you.

If you were building this startup, you know, how much  would you charge for it? How much do you think people are willing to pay for something this? I  mean, I think you could create the equivalent of the existing, you know, landing page creators  where you get a free page that's very simple.

And then you just upcharge based on, again,  the modules that you want to add. So imagine a fitness influencer who specifically wants to show  Andrew Huberman, he has certain advertisers and he wants to show who he's affiliated with or the  types of supplements he's taking on Thorne. Well, you could upcharge for that and you could upcharge  for, you know, runners who want to right now, the Strava embed is horrible.

I love Strava, but  if you want to actually show how often you're running or again, your progress towards certain  PRs, you can't show any of that. And so you could have upcharges based on your affinity for  customization. One thing I to do is to look at ads that come up because that shows me if it's a good  business or not.

And website builders advertise everywhere. Every podcast. Every podcast.

VPNs.  Well, because it's also recurring revenue. There's a bunch of other startups as well, but that people  kind of throw shade on because they're , oh, it's just a link page, right?

There's so many startups  that are just building link pages. And that's because there's limited real estate on , you know,  you have you've built up an Instagram profile and you only have one link. But imagine if instead  of that link page just directing to your personal website or your podcast, you actually, again, had  something modular that represented the things that you care about.

And then to your point, there's  all kinds of things you can add there, too. If you want to monetize as well, you can monetize on that  page. So imagine you had a supplement section, and you truly included the supplements that you're  taking and that you care about, but then you also had AG1 in there, and it's clearly represented as  an ad.

But that gives you real estate now to play with that's a lot more creative than just your  standard, hey, it's Steph, or hey, it's Greg page. By the way, OpenPages, I don't know if that  domain's available, but that's the perfect name. We're going to find out.

Namecheap. You're  a Namecheap girl? I am.

What are you? On my worst days, I'm a GoDaddy guy. On my best days, I'm an  Amcheap guy.

One day you'll be a Cloudflare guy. So openpages. com is not.

. . I got confused because  there's openpages.

it. com, which we obviously don't want. It was registered in 1996.

But openpages. me  is available. OpenPages.

me is pretty legit. And . xyz.

inc. Yeah, . gg.

Go grab it. Okay, I had  an idea related to this. Yeah.

And I want your opinion on it. Okay. So go to my website,  GregEisenberg.

com. When you scroll down, you see this popular guide section? Yes.

So you, I create  a lot of content and people bookmark my stuff. So I started basically taking some of my most popular  tweets, basically, and putting them into guides. And so I made these landing pages and thousands  of people every month download them.

And it got me thinking that every personal webpage, just  every personal webpage should have an open page, should have essentially a knowledge open page that  you gate so you can get people's email address. Interesting. Why that's important is because  we're all on social and the algorithms change sometimes and we want to own the email address so  we can connect with our community, our audience.

And I don't know, and maybe you know, but I don't  know of any specific platform that helps me manage this lead magnet for personal web pages. I don't  know if that's dedicated to personal web pages, but yeah, you can create a lead magnet site that  pushes people through the funnel through things HubSpot. But give me an example of, so you've got  this one that's , find winning startup ideas.

So how would you change this page? Or you're just  saying you think a product should exist that helps you create these. Yeah, if I go to Squarespace,  for example, and I make a personal website, which is where millions of people are doing that,  it's strictly informational.

informational. It's strictly about me, who I am, maybe some pictures,  social media links, but it's nothing around taking the next step. Of course, you can have a link  that says, subscribe to my newsletter, but that just doesn't work anymore.

I guess that's the  insight. Saying, hey, subscribe to my newsletter, people have hit fatigue in terms of newsletter  fatigue, but they are willing to put in their email address if they're going to get something  out of it. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I think your point just about what worked in 2010 for marketing on  the web is just out the door. And so that's why I think people should absolutely, there was always  this gap between people knew that, you know, static landing pages from the past were outdated,  but I don't know how to actually create something new.

And we're now at a point where actually you  can create just about anything through a tool cursor, right? Where you can actually code and  dictate your creative vision on a digital page and it not being hard at all. And you can actually  differentiate in that way.

And so I think that's maybe the prompt that people should take is just  , sure, you can whip up something very quickly on insert marketing tool here, but then you're just  going to look everyone else. And that's just not good enough today. So I think maybe that's the  takeaway.

All right. What else you got? Okay so this one is we were talking a lot about health  so this is a personal request And I sure people are working on this In fact I feel I know people  working on bits of this but just there needs to be some centralized platform that integrates all of  the information that you are capturing regarding your health.

So , I'm wearing a CGM right now. I'm  one of those people who have, , I've got an eight slate people of Aura range. CGM is a glucose? 

Continuous glucose monitor. Yeah. Yeah.

But also it's if you use Strava, that data should  be in there. If you go and use function health and get your blood done, that should be integrated  into the same platform. If you go see your doctor, I'm taking medication right now.

So it's that  should be in there as well. An example of why this matters is so I ran my first marathon on  Sunday, did not go as well as I was hoping, despite a year of training. but I've been facing  this nausea thing which feels very different from a fueling issue or an energy or training issue and  it's been so hard to figure out and only after the marathon it dawned on me that oh my gosh this  medication that I've been taking for the last few months only might be playing a role in what's  going on here because again it's this weird nausea thing that I've asked so many runners and they're  I've experienced other stuff but nausea not so much and if I had this tool that was integrating  all of the information, it could triangulate and at least give me suggestions or at least, you  know, imagine a chat GPT interface where I could probe it and be , is there anything happening in  my whole health ecosystem that you might think could be causing this?

And that just does not  exist. In theory, a doctor should do this, right? In theory, a doctor should have the wholesale  understanding of what is happening in your body, but it doesn't.

Right. In theory, the doctor  should be the data warehouse. and there should be an AI layer that you can ask it based on the data. 

Yeah, and so this is again my request for startup because all of these tools, whether it's Dexcom or  Abbott, they have CGM APIs that you can integrate into. Strava has an API. So all of these things  exist and the data can be imported in, but there needs to be some sort of good application that  aggregates it and makes sense of it.

And then to your point, has kind of your digital doctor layer  where it's not prescribing anything, but where you can interrogate it and I can say, hey, this was  my HR or my heart rate during my marathon, and this is the point where I hit an issue and I felt  nausea, , what's going on? And obviously it can integrate information from the web as well,  which would actually be much more effective than a doctor because the doctor can't actually  be probing the web in real time and pulling in all that information. So that's my request for  someone to build, which is an integrated layer of everything.

And obviously you can pick and choose  what you want to bring in. But to date, I haven't seen this. And I think that's actually been a  limitation of many of these products, too, where people wear an Oura ring and they're , it's good  because I can see the data, but I don't know how to relate this to my life and actually take action  on it.

Yeah. And it's it feels this is a business, I mean, that people would pay for. I would pay for  it.

How much would you pay for something this? i mean i think i would pay substantially more than  the classic ten dollar per month subscription just because it is i mean if you think about  an eight sleep costs thousands of dollars an aura ring costs hundreds of dollars many of these  other things strava you're paying ten dollars a month for so i think there's an awareness that  those things that people are spending money on are not quite giving them the information that  they need to make it actionable and so maybe I'm more ready to pay than the average person,  but I would for sure pay at least $30 per month, especially in instances where I'm trying to solve  an issue the example I just gave. And it could be one of those businesses that you actually sell  to, I don't know how this works, maybe you know, but as a perk to businesses, right?

So the  companies would pay for their employees at no cost to employees to basically use this product.  Totally. I don't know why I haven't seen this more in the U.

S. , but when I was in the U. K.

, friends  of mine would be on health insurance plans that would incentivize them to do healthy things. ,  this already existed. My friend's , do you want a free coffee at Starbucks?

And I'm , why do you  have a free coffee at Starbucks? And he's , well, my insurance plan has given me points or, you  know, free dollars to certain things because I have, you know, if he's wearing an Oura ring, I  have achieved a good health score or sleep score. or because I've gone to the gym a certain number  of times or I've seen my doctor on a regular basis.

I don't remember what the inputs were, but  he specifically was , my health insurance plan has done the data analysis to determine this is worth  X to us for someone to be a healthier person. And therefore we're going to incentivize this through  rewards. Incredible.

I mean, health is wealth. Maybe that's what you call this thing. Maybe  you call it healthiswealth.

ai. Yeah. And I mean, there's tiny little things.

People are going  to find them silly. But I swear there is demand for this where you could also just be this ongoing  health assistant for folks where there are so many things that, for example, I don't drink enough  water. I just am never thirsty, never have been.

But I know I should drink more water. I tweeted  about this two days ago and there was 400 comments of people being , either I have the same thing  or I fixed it with these really simple tricks. But I think at the end of the day, if I read  all of the comments in that thread, the answer was just building a habit.

I'm , I can't build  a habit on my own. I need an assistant to remind me as silly as it sounds to be , it's time to  drink water. And I know there are apps for this, but if it's a lot more customized, personalized  to your way of operating, instead of me having to open an app and remember, I think there's little  things that.

posture is another thing where if you have this ai assistant and it knows your issues  i feel there's just ample opportunity to be that micro fix in order to build the habit and to you  know help someone i guess address the issues that are unique to them i love it by the way just so  you know this you think this is water barking water but i actually put put a little Celsius in  here. So it's sort of a melange. So I'm also one of those people who don't drink enough water.

It's  so funny. Celsius water doesn't count. It's funny because there's for sure, I don't know what the  percentages are.

There's people who hear that we don't drink much water and they're just , what's  wrong with you? You're a mammal and you need water and this makes no sense. But then I don't know. 

There's, I don't know if you're this, but I just have never drank much water. I think it's kind  of the late debate where people who are late just will never understand people who are not late and  vice versa. I think it's a lot of us heard that you need to drink two liters a day and we're just  , it's outlandish.

So then I just lose all trust in the system. It's , it's the, , breakfast is the  most important meal of the day. And then it's the egg companies that sponsor that, that message.

And  it's , okay, obviously I'm not eating breakfast anymore Yeah The water thing though I feel I  trust that we need water I just don understand the mechanic of why some bodies don seem to have  as clear a signal that they thirsty I guess we've just gotten used to being constantly dehydrated.  Could you give us one last idea before we leave? Yeah.

What kind of idea do you want? You want  something more still in the AI world? Okay, well, here's just a – let me give you two quick ones. 

One of them is just when you think of the Internet five, ten years ago, there was this huge wave of  once information became digitized, that there was this opportunity to create directories. So you  have things Nomad List, which was just , let me take all the data that exists and aggregate it  to make sense of what cities nomads should go to. There's tons of other examples where literally  directory companies became really sizable.

but today my prompt for people again this is a  really quick idea is just what directory companies or websites can become custom gpts so nomad list  is great but what's better is the ability to have your custom gpt where you say hey i care about  these things or i want to you know i really over index on wanting good weather or i actually  have no money and so i really need this place to be less than a thousand dollars per month and  to be able to chat with it, which places don't, or do I need a visa for, et cetera. And so I  just think using the frame of what exists as a directory that can be improved through a custom  GPT, nomad visas is one, one frame. And then.

Are you seeing people make money through custom GPTs?  Not yet. have you seen any i heard one story of a lawyer who owns all the top legal gpt and and he  buys all the custom if something comes up he'll just go and reach out to the developer and be i'll  buy it and he's using it as a legion so basically people are and millions and millions and millions  of people are, , you know, prompting for, I need a contract for this or I need that.

And then he's  just basically reaching out and being , Hey, do you want a real lawyer? , so I've only heard of  from a lead gen perspective, which by the way is interesting. That's super interesting actually. 

Yeah. So to that point, I think I'm trying to, so in order for custom GPT to, I think be able  to monetize, you do need some sort of specialized data that other people don't have. Because if that  same thing can be done through ChatGPT or Claude, you don't have a business.

But to your point, if  there is a custom GPT that is uniquely effective at answering someone's specific set of needs, you  might be able to monetize that. But just creators have different ways of monetizing through ads,  affiliates, or their own products, I think your point about it being a lead gen mechanism is  equally interesting and I think would work for many of these topics. So my last thing is I feel  with AI, there's got to be better dating apps.

Neither of us are single, but I think if you look  at the prior wave. . .

Yeah, let's get the married people to come up with ideas for dating apps.  We're that annoying person where we're , I think I can solve your problem. But okay, my seed for this  one is just simply that dating apps today, and maybe this is just a reflection of the way that  humans think are all based on looks.

So you're swiping and you're , in theory, you're adding all  this other information about, you know, I to do this, or this is my favorite thing to do with my  friends. But it's all swiping based on do I the way this person looks. But if you think about the  mechanisms for people to actually come together, it's things humor, it's things intelligence,  and none of the AI or none of the apps today, I think accurately capture those things.

And  obviously different people index on, again, humor, intelligence, all of those things in terms of what  they care about. But I met someone in Bali years ago who was creating an app. I guess it didn't  work.

So worth noting. But he was basically , what if the app was instead of scrolling on someone's  face, it was scrolling on memes? So you're just or swiping rather.

So you're swiping on things and  it's basically getting a sense of your sense of humor, right? And basically, according to that,  it then is going to match you with different folks. And obviously, then you can still be , am  I attracted to this person?

Do I want to chat with this person? You still have agency to choose.  But I just think, especially with AI today, this is easier than ever for you to base to be  able to create, whether swiping or otherwise, a mechanism for determining if people are compatible  based on those other traits.

I'll take your idea further. So I think from what I hear from people  in single land, they are tired of swiping. So why don't we just remove the swipe?

You download  the app, you figure out, you know, the memes, the memes that you . Do you it? Maybe there's an  initial, you know, onboarding where you do swipe for , I this meme, I don't that meme.

and then it  just assigns you to a person to meet basically a blind date 7 p. m. You know you're going to meet  over here.

They know where both of you live. Yeah. And good luck.

And it gives you some sort  of prompt. I mean these AIs are so good at being you guys right both this movie or you both enjoy  running or whatever it is and it can even get more specific than that. But imagine taking the  idea further.

It's you don't even have to swipe. You can choose what applications you want to  integrate. So maybe it connects to your Goodreads or maybe it connects to your Netflix or your  Strava or insert thing here that has information about the way that you live and the things that  you .

Your open page. There you go. I mean, in a future world when everyone has an open page,  that would be the perfect mechanic to identify if people may be at least initially compatible. 

I do think that the future of dating is with no swiping. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, basically your  personalized AI matchmaker. Basically arranged marriages. By the AI.

You still get to choose if  you want to stay in the relationship. But yeah, I that. And I the idea of it just setting up. 

I think I heard of a company that's doing well doing this. I can't remember the name, but it's  just it sets up a time for you. It says meet at this time and it picks a location as well.

So  you don't have to think about any of the dating mechanics of , oh, maybe we'll meet in two weeks.  and it never happens kind of thing. Steph Smith, you exceeded my expectations.

Did I? I had high  expectations. What do you want to, anything you want to plug or say or leave people with?

No, I  mean, you can just find me at my personal website, stephsmith. io. I also have a product project  that teaches people how to find interesting things around the web called Internet Pipes,  internetpipes.

com. We'll include the links so people don't have to do hard work. Thank you.

And  thanks for, thanks you for doing the hard work, for coming up with these ideas. Thank you  so much. Steph Smith.

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