Satellite imagery opportunities, product decay, powerslap, lightweight consulting, ...

Hey,

this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you.

Let's dive in!

💡 Opportunities

• A guy called Joe Morrison wrote a great thread with his personal "call for startups" in the satellite imagery space.

  • Example: “Commercial roof reports. It's something like a 9-figure (!!!) business for Eagle View auto-generating roof reports for commercial roofers bidding on jobs. Go do it in a new market or a better way.”

  • Example: “Supply chain verification The bottleneck in your supply chain for your most crucial ingredient is a factory in South America that says they have 10 trucks lined up outside being loaded right now. Are they telling the truth? Who ya gonna call?”

  • Note: I think this is interesting because just recently I learned that for just $175 you can order a satellite image of any specific location at any future date. So I think in the same way a few startups were built purely by building a user-friendly wrapper around OpenAI APIs, it’s possible to do something similar here.

• “Google Maps but it has Fog of War for places you haven’t yet visited” - Twitter

• “Request for startup: Lightweight consulting platform. Think Twitter meets Upwork. I want to be able to: 1. Set a public budget (e.g. $250) 2. Have people reply 3. Like the most useful replies 4. After 24 hours, budget gets distributed to most liked replies” - Marc Köhlbrugge

  • Note: StackOverflow but paid. Always wondered why this doesn't exists.

🛠 Things Worth Checking Out

• SaaS Origin Stories Podcast. Deep conversations with founders as they share how they started their SaaS journeys. You’ll hear firsthand the do’s and don’ts of building and growing a SaaS company and inspirational stories to fuel your own SaaS adventures. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

• Pure Genius. 'Read and Deploy' marketing insights, ideas, tactics, and tear downs from one of the world’s top marketers wrapped into ONE digestible email each week.

• Play Permissionless. My second and more personal newsletter besides the one you’re reading right now where I share behind-the-scenes updates on my entrepreneurial journey.

📈 Trend Signal

• Power Slap is “the world's premier slap-fighting organization” by UFC founder Dana White.

• The /r/powerslap subreddit is also exploding right now and a good starting point for more information.

• Functional Patterns is a fitness methodology that focuses on making bio-mechanical adaptations relevant to human physiology.

• The conceptual framework of Functional Patterns was first established in 2009 by Naudi Aguilar but only recently the system has really started to take off.

👨‍🎓 Framework

• Startups start with cool people and great ideas.

• After some time, inevitably bureaucracy and management by metrics lead to product decay.

• Product decay is happening everywhere and even though most people are aware of this cycle, hardly anyone seems to be able to stop it.

• While this is frustrating as a customer of any business where this happens, it’s great news for aspiring startup founders. Every decaying product is an opportunity.

• Two current examples below:

  Danny Postma @dannypostmaa

  My @heroku account has been deleted, bringing down all my applications. No message, no email. Has anyone ever had this happen to them??

  Francesco Di Lorenzo @frankdilo

  Same here. Death by a thousand paper cuts. Who’s building the new 1Password?

  

  @levelsio @levelsio

  I haven't had a working @1Password in 2 months Every time I sign up to a new site and I click Generate Password it tells me to re-authorize 1Password, I then do that and nothing happens I knew when they'd raise VC they'd fuck up, not sure they'd fuck up this fast though https://t.co/ttSc2lU27E

💸 Revenue Signals

• NGL is at $20M ARR. (“NGL stands for "not gonna lie." We want people to share their honest feelings and opinions with their followers.)

• “http://wordcounter.net, which is literally, a word counter, has around 7m visitors per month! At $6 CPM that's $500k a year for a website that tells you how many words there is in the text you just pasted!” - Pierre de Wulf

• “One of the guys who co-wrote the hit song My Sharona from 1979 still makes $100,000+ per year from royalties.” - Freakonomics

• Twomarkup generated $20k last month. (“I will remove Impersonating Instagram & TikTok accounts in less than 7 days”)

End Note

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Have a great week,

Jakob

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