Greg Eisenberg
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first heard May 2024
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The Startup Ideas Podcast · Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $100k/month idea) · 10 Jun 2024
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I'm not going to go buy an iPhone from you, so we can't do the affiliate thing. So this is just one of those ideas that I wish exists. And just because the UI is 10 years old doesn't mean it's necessarily a good business.
When we talked about the scientific journal one, I think that was more interesting to me from an affiliate standpoint because you can actually cherry pick scientific journals, take out the insights that are relevant to products and then sell those products. Whereas this, I just don't really see that happening and it feels very niche.
So sometimes, lesson learned, sometimes ultra niche is too niche. I always say you want to go niche and then think about can you go a little bit nicher? I call that super niche. But when you're talking about ultra niche, sometimes that's not a business idea, that's a utility. But thank you for this, Yash.
William Blaze says, new idea here, newsletter and job board for companies that qualify for QSBS and allow 83B early election for people looking to join early stage companies with tax advantage outcomes. So for those outside the US who don't know what QSBS and 83B is, QSBS is just a tax law that allows founders and early employees to save money on stock basically. And 83B is the same sort of idea.
It's a tax way for early employees, founders to save money on stock. Again, this feels a little too niche. Also, job board plus QSBS feels like the reason why you're going to join a startup, it's like you believe in the founders, you believe in the mission, you think you can add value. It's not because you can do an 83B election.
So sometimes you come up with an idea and you're like, oh, I wish I could... What probably happened here is William Blaze here, if that is his real name, William Blaze was like, oh, I had an issue with I started a company and I never signed my 83B and it was a mistake and something happened. I had a bad experience.
So other people might have that experience, but again, this is a bit too ultra niche and I'm not convinced that job seekers think about this when they're actually going and looking for their jobs. Okay, another startup idea. Alejandro Ordinez says, feedback on this idea, and we just built it. It's called Sweatro, Fantasy League for Real Life Physical Activities.
So it says, virtual race platform and fantasy league for real life physical activities. Competition is not about winning or losing, it's about pushing ourselves to be the best we can be. Okay, how does it work? You basically sync your device, It creates a Sweatro profile.
It's a fitness tracker and then you join a challenge, you commit to a goal, and then you earn cash rewards by completing the challenge. This is actually very similar to what we talked about for the gaming one. You're just getting rewarded for getting fit and then they've got four brands that are compatible. Garmin, Suunto, Wahoo, Polar. And it sounds like the reason why... Oh, interesting.
So a lot of them you actually have to pay. Wow. Okay. So this is... Wow. Wild. So... I'm looking at one of the challenges. Run 45K in one week. The entry fee is $5, but the pot is $30. Or you can... The July 4th 10K run. The entry fee is $10, and I'm not sure how big the pot is. I shouldn't say, but there's some pot. The Tour de France challenge, it's a free entry fee, and pot is $300.
So this kind of feels like somewhat gambling. I mean... kind of gambling, right? You're putting in money and there's a pot. Interesting. I just think that there's a lot of friction with getting people to put money in. I mean, if they're going to do this, maybe they'd rather put money in a meme coin. If they're trying to gamble, there's other ways that they're going to go and gamble.
So I'm not sure that I love that approach. I think this could be like a small business, which is cool. And I think the impact of it is really cool. Like you're making people more healthy. But I think that this is something that a big company might do. I mean, not the gambling piece, but just motivating people to be more active. I think that if I'm a startup and I'm trying to like,
deal with the Garmin APIs and the Sento APIs and the Wahoo APIs and the Polar APIs. I mean, I've only heard of Garmin. I just feel like that's a lot of work to do. Upkeep of the app, deal with people's money and entry fees. I don't love it. I like simple businesses. That's why I like the gaming one. It was like, okay.
you're going to plug into one API and it's gamers and you're not going to ask anything from them. They're just going to get rewarded. So it's just a win-win proposition. So this is cool, but I personally wouldn't start something like this. And there you have it. Bunch of ideas for you. Get your creative juices flowing.
If you like this, please, please follow, subscribe on your platform of choice and go to YouTube to write a comment. I read every single one of them and I enjoy reading them. I'm having a blast reading them. And it helps me know if you like this, it helps me know what I should talk more about and I'm trying to make this the best possible show for you to make it the most valuable show for you.
And I want you to have a good time and I want you to learn along the way and I want you to come up with ideas along the way. And you're going to take one of these ideas sometime and you're going to build something big. So it's been real. I'll see you later. And thanks for tuning in.
This strategy is, is foolproof. Like you, you are able to pretty much meet whoever you want via this strategy and, and you don't need hundreds of thousands of followers. And most of those relationships began by just me literally reaching out on places like Twitter. I'm sure a lot of people are listening to this and they're like, well, Greg, like you have 300,000 followers.
Of course, it's easy for you to like DM people and they're going to respond. But I've literally been doing this my entire life.
So the first thing is... And we are back.
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