Marc Lou

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The Startup Ideas Podcast · How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas) · 11 Sep 2024 podcast

If we step, um, all right, maybe we can move from that. Whatever course you're trying to sell, there's something I love and it's maybe speaking to only gamers out there, but I'm a big fan of all the Farcraft. I've played games for so many years and I try to gamify things that have a purpose in real life.

So for instance, you could gamify your sleep, you could score points, you can compete with friends, you can lose money if you don't get good sleep or if you don't track your habits or something like that. I think there's a lot to do in the gamification system because Everybody wants better sleep. Everybody wants to eat better. Everybody wants to work out.

And I think there is a gamification things that could help people achieve their goals. And that could be a software by itself.

Yeah, I think in this case, it's, I think it's a mattress company that sells the app on top of that. So that's eventually on a call on a podcast, you would end up talking about the mattress because it's interesting. Normally you don't talk about a mattress. I think that makes a lot of sense, but that would require you to already have a business.

If you're setting a course about how to sleep better, you could bring a little board of all the people who purchased and make them compete. For sleep, there is Pokemon Sleep, an app that was released, I think, a year ago or something, which makes $100 million a year. And basically, the better you sleep, the more your Pokemons will grow and evolve.

I don't know what is the license fee they pay for the Pokemon license.

That's $10 per download?

Yeah, that's pretty crazy. I think the nostalgia of Pokemon combined with a real-life goal, that's something big.

I mean, yeah, man, I would love to grow my Jedi as soon as I ship a startup. My lightsabers becomes, I don't know, double or something. Just so many. And we're talking about general stuff like sleep, or workouts, but you could go deep into niche, like, developers who commit, this is an app I have in mind for a long time. I'll probably build it in years from now.

It's like every time you make a commit as a developer, it's pushed to GitHub. And there is like this super addictive GitHub things where you have like a grid of all your commits across the last 365 days. Every developer is wherever your software engineer is using TypeScript or your Peter Lovell is using PHP and don't care about anything. Everybody knows about that and everybody loves this grid.

And man, I kind of, I want to bring that in and make a massive leaderboard of commits or whatever grids, something that makes people want to push some code online. This is one of the millions of niche where you can gamify gamify habits goals. Yeah.

Okay. I'll build that with you.

The track record you have, because if that ended up working two years from now, it's like, this idea was born on the Startup Ideas podcast. Exactly. We documented it. I'm really taking note of that one. I'll CC you, I'll DM you if I ended up building it.

Oh man, I dropped it here because this is the number one question I receive on every YouTube videos I make. Where did you set up your company? How does it work? How did you set up your strap account with that company? The same question every single time. And the thing is, I think there is an opportunity for an info product for sure. So people understand a little bit better about what is going on.

How does the thing work? Because it's mostly, it starts with that. And eventually for a service where you have, you marketplace where you match people and their needs and the legal entity that they need. I am terrible at legal stuff. Like this is something that it pulls my hair. So I spend as least time as I can on it. But I think there's a real need because people ask all the time.

Okay, I think in your case it's probably an advanced version maybe to optimize your taxes or something like this?

All right. I think, yeah. Maybe because in New York... I think you're from Canada, right? I'm originally from Canada, yes. I think there's... What I see is from people who are usually not from the US. Because for you guys, there is this easy option of Stripe at last.

So you paid taxes in, in the U S now?

Okay. So yeah, you've, you've been, cause I look, I look at my situation. I am a French person who is married to a Korean woman in living, living fiscal, like take my tax. I pay my taxes in Bali. There was an infinite ocean of options. Where would I pay my taxes? Where would I pay my company? Where would I open a company?

Because I don't need to open a company necessarily in Indonesia or in France. I can open it in Singapore. And so you have like so many options. And sometimes like, yeah, but you have Cyberclass in the US where you pay 0% taxes. Why not opening there? And then you realize if you do that, then you're not, you own a company like there and you live in Indonesia, it's maybe illegal.

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