Niche Google Glass and Capterra, AI micro consulting, 10x framework, Nike of Food, ...
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💡 Opportunities
“Wanted: Pagespeed insights that doesn't crash the browser. What do people use for this?” - Tony Ennis
Niche versions of Google Glass are an interesting opportunity right now. Google just announced that they will discontinue Google Glass for enterprise. In related discussions quite a few people were asking for alternatives.
apprentice.io is one successful example. They’re 100% life sciences focused.
One guy looking for a specific niche version of Google Glass mentioned this: “my application is remote support of engineers /customers working in on our hardware microscopes (similar to an electron microscope)”.
“Fintech people, does this exist: accounts balances as a service? Any kind of software where you have money coming in/out (crowd investing, bill splitting, whatever). Holds the funds for each individual until they click "cash out" and sends funds to their bank. like a developer product/API that could easily integrate with anything.” - Tyler Tringas
“startup idea - curated version of Airbnb where you stay at founders’ homes and cowork with them in lieue of payment. A scaled version of ryanckulp.com/visit/” - Ryan Kulp
“I definitely think someone could expand to build a niche capterra or g2crowd specific to e-commerce apps… wonder if there’s enough demand/reward for something even more niche for just Shopify apps?” - John Speed
Interesting idea by Micheal Greenberg: 1. Offer a low-cost coaching productized service (e.g. like Jordan O’Connor’s Power Half Hour). 2.) Transcribe all recordings. 3.) Use it to train AI chatbot. 4.) Scale service using AI.
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👨🎓 Framework
💸 Revenue Signals
Mid Day Squares (the “Nike of Food”) is currently making $17M/year. (Source)
Tabs Chocolate (aphrodisiac chocolate brand) is making $3.8M/year in revenue right now. (Source)
“It took me almost two years to cross the $2k MRR for Microns 🚀” - Ilya Novohatskyi
Microns is a marketplace for micro startups.
“Podsqueeze MRR keeps growing and we just reached another milestone $300 MRR” - Tiago
Podsqueeze: “Generate shownotes, timestamps, newsletters and more for your podcast with one click!”
End Note
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Jakob
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