Startups & Ventures

2021-04-25 14:51:18 Program auto-creator
A tool that transforms your idea into a product sketch in no-code. You have a bunch of automation, some parts with code where you need low-level stuff, somewhere you have integrations with other tools, other parts are complete no-code. Of course, the quality of such a sketch depends on how well you describe an idea and how the result should look and behave. Open / Comment

2021-04-24 06:02:01 Datasets normalizer
A tool that helps people who create, manage, use datasets to normalize them to decrease the time they spent on such work. Good ML models are good data, and most of the time people spend on normalizing it: to remove duplicates, extremely high or low points, empty values, and so on. Open / Comment

2021-04-22 07:24:03 Semi-virtual notes
A notebook where each page has a unique id that can be scanned by an app on a smartphone. The app can link a real notebook page to a virtual space where you also could add notes. Besides that, you can have handwritten notes mirrored in a virtual space, thus you're able to manage them: correct, add more context, notes, etc.
While creating a notebook with the id on each page can be overhead, we could simplify the flow. A person may use a usual notebook and the app scans a whole page for signs it will use an id for the page. Also, a user can create a unique sign that will be recognized. Open / Comment

2021-04-18 20:16:02 I wonder why don't companies manufacture a microwave with a thermometer that says how warm food is, so we don't need to randomly pick a heating time. Open / Comment

2021-04-15 20:15:29 Highlights on web pages
A browser extension that allows you to highlight a text on a web page, with a possibility to add notes. Then the extension saves the highlights in one place(it may even be Notion), so you can access them. The notes are easily searchable, categorized by a website, and custom tags.

A related idea: if you make your notes public, then other users who use the extension can see what you've highlighted on any website. Like, it is on Medium. Open / Comment

2021-04-13 16:42:34 Pauses remover
A tool that automatically detects inconvenient moments in your video such as "ehhh", "hmm", pauses, and cuts it accordingly. No more manual editing. Open / Comment

2021-04-12 17:50:58 Freelance marketplace
A platform like Upwork where people may find programmers to solve their tasks with the following improvements:
- Registration and using the service are free. Only a fee applies for transactions.
- Programmers can be paid in cryptocurrency. No hassle with confirming the identity and receiving payments because of government policies.
- The hardest. An algorithm that connects a programmer with the person/company who needs services. The match is based on the programmer's skills. So if you're a great engineer with plenty of completed projects in real life, why should you work for food for the first year or so to have adequate clients? Open / Comment

2021-04-09 07:21:13 Recurring Revenue Securitization
Problem: Financing options for startups are extremely limited: either equity or debt. Founders must give up ownership in their company or take money from banks at non-zero interest rates.

Solution: There’s been a lot of buzz online recently about alternative forms of financing for startups or SaaS companies with reliable, recurring revenues. The current model is something along the line of what Pipe has done by creating a “financing platform that provides non-dilutive financing to SaaS companies in the form of an instant cash advance.
The concept is best described by Alex Danco in his blog post “Debt is Coming” and was additionally expounded upon by Patrick McKenzie from Stripe in his Tweetstorm on SaaS-cash flow backed securities. Essentially the idea is to give companies money today for the reliable MRR cash flows that will eventually return in the future. The benefit of such agreements are that companies no longer have to discount annual memberships and can retain equity in their companies.

The business would compete directly with Pipe (right now the only major player in the market) and innovate on the recurring revenue securitization model. Perhaps, the business would allow anyone to invest in these securities. Open / Comment

2021-04-05 07:34:54 Decentralized social network
Where you share ideas that can be shown to everyone, not merely to followers. A user can't be removed by someone, but if (s)he posts something irrelevant, the system will rank the user lower because of low people interest.
A side idea is to create crypto tokens for every creator so anyone may invest in a creator that people like. A creator's tokens worth is increasing as (s)he posts interesting content.
There are platforms like that, and the most popular one is poorly implemented. Open / Comment

2021-04-02 12:41:56 Hey friends, do you know that Telegram is booming? My favorite business influencer has launched a channel about the Telegram-marketing especially, it's actually a gem! Take a look, I think you'll like it.

Daniel Zee – t.me/realdanielzee

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