Stupid Startup Ideas around Curation
Stupid Startup Ideas around Curation
"Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not." - Michael Dell
My definition of a curation site is any site that either curates or chooses the best things themselves, or has the users vote for what they think are the best in a certain niche. One such example of the latter is ProductHunt and on a larger, broader scale Reddit. We all enjoy these sites because we are given the best content on a certain subject without having to sift through the mess ourselves. Here are some more examples to show you what type of websites I am talking about:
I recently saw a post on Indie Hackers about Stan Bright who created SaasHub and LibHunt, which are both similar curation sites for saas and open source code respectively. They are both fairly simple and with millions of monthly views, they rake in around $10k/month each. I think there are many opportunities to create websites similar to these in different small niches.
One founder I have been following, jedcal, created a startup inspired by the popular curation/review site RateMyProfessor. His spin off of this is RateMyDorm, which currently has around 75k views per month. It pretty self explanatory, but students go onto this website and write reviews for their dorms where other students can come and find the best fit for them in college. It is similar to the other sites mentioned before, with user generated content, reviews, and recommendations, but he was able to create this site in a niche that was somewhat untapped.
I have also been considering making a similar curation platform to these. I might make a website for Stupid Startup Ideas, where users can submit an idea and other users can upvote or downvote them, so the best stupid ideas reach the top. I think this could be a good little website to bring new emails in and see what people are interested in. If I were to do this, I would probably make a similar site to 50hacks.co by Marc Lou, it is simple and effective.
Lastly, before the ideas, I recently saw a post by nfx insights explaining how Generative AI will change the curation landscape because curation will become creation. For instance, ProductHunt right now is a platform that shows you the best and most interesting websites and products, but in the future it could be a platform that you just say what product you want and it makes it for you. Who knows how AI will truly change curation, but it will sure be interesting.
Now some curation ideas:
I was going to say AI tool curation sites, but there are already so many. FuturePedia, TheresAnAIForThat, and numerous others.
Curated Painting Marketplace - I am not so sure if this is a great idea of not, but it would be a platform where people put there artworks up for sale and with each upvote the price goes up. Anyone can buy the artworks whenever, but the website would be similar to ProductHunt where you can only initially see the first and most upvoted paintings. This would cause the most liked and popular artworks to be the most expensive and at the top. A major problem with this idea for me, is that it could easily be replaced by AI and artwork generators.
ModelHunt or RenderRank - I actually like this idea, but I am not into 3d modeling much and I can’t say I have done it. I think y’all already know what this site is like, but you post your 3d models, maybe free or paid, and people will upvote your models and people will be able to use them.
RecipeHunt - “ProductHunt for recipes”, people post their favorite recipes and people upvote them and review them if they tried to make them. I don’t know if this is a great idea, but that is why it is stupid, and I think it would be difficult to monetize without ads.
Idea Curation - I have not really refined this idea, but it would be a website similar to 50hacks.co where users submit ideas or hacks and they are ranked. These could be website ideas, random secrets, business lessons, or random other things.
Use AI to turn one of these curation tools into a tool that generates.
There are of course an infinite amount of things you can curate, so just brainstorm and maybe you have a brilliantly stupid business idea. Then you just have to execute and pivot off the setbacks.
Do you think it would be cool if I made a website for Stupid Startup Ideas, where you could post your ideas and people could rate them.