Startup ideas with the receipts attached
Every idea here links to the complaints that produced it. If the evidence is thin, you will see that too — we would rather show you a weak signal than dress it up.
Narrow it down
7 subcategories
Each one is a live query. Pick the space you actually want to build in.
Fintech
1Financial workflows still held together by exports and manual checks.
EdTech
Learning tools whose users describe the gaps in detail.
HealthTech
Where clinical time is lost to software rather than to patients.
PropTech
Property runs on paperwork that nobody wants to be doing.
InsurTech
1Claims and underwriting workflows people describe as opaque and slow.
ClimateTech
Reporting mandates create budget where goodwill alone did not.
Logistics
Warehouses and fleets run on radio calls and paper.
Ranked by opportunity score
1 opportunities in Startup Ideas
Highest-scoring first. Every card links through to the evidence behind it.
Common questions
Where do these startup ideas come from?+
Every one starts as a complaint somebody actually wrote — on Reddit, Hacker News, an app store review, a software review site or a job post. We extract the specific friction, group near-identical complaints, and only then turn the cluster into an idea.
How are they ranked?+
By a weighted opportunity score across seven dimensions: pain severity, competition gap, market size, monetisation clarity, build feasibility, evidence strength and distribution ease. Evidence strength is measured from how many independent sources back the cluster, not estimated by a model.
Are these ideas already taken?+
Often something adjacent exists — that is normal and usually good, because it proves people pay. Each opportunity page names the real competitors we could identify and the specific gap their own users complain about.