Only Fortune 500s hedge because they have treasury teams managing options and swaps. Everyone else just eats the risk. Prediction markets change that. Simple, binary, you know exactly what you're paying for. No volatility drag, no guessing what's priced in. A restaurant owner worried about food costs could hedge that specific outcome without a team of traders. Build the tool that opens this up to everyone.
Countertop device that scans your food and tells you exactly what's in it. Drop in a strawberry, it flags pesticide residue. Piece of steak, it tells you what the cow was fed. Sleek enough to sit on your counter. Basically a food lab test in seconds.
EHR data is a mess. Fragmented systems that don't talk to each other. Researchers spend months finding candidates for clinical trials when it should take minutes. Build the layer that organizes and standardizes this data so you can instantly match patients to studies. Faster trials, better drugs.
AI companies scrape your data for free. Let people sell it instead. App where you pick what to share: calls, texts, photos, videos, browsing history. You set the price. AI models need diverse real-world data, people generate it every day. You created it, you should get paid for it.
Upload photos of both parents, AI predicts what your baby will look like. Fun and viral on its own. But the real business is the dataset. Millions of parent-child photo pairs, incredibly valuable for genetics research and aging prediction. Users get a fun experience, you build a massive proprietary dataset.
People should be able to sell their kidneys. 50k die per year from the shortage. Almost 1% of the US federal budget goes to treating kidney failure. 520k people on dialysis at ~$100k/year each. Living donor kidneys last 15-20 years and save ~$900k per patient. Government program: $50k tax-free, paid leave, lifetime health coverage. Donors live just as long as non-donors. Crazier to compensate willing donors or let patients die?
Turn dead EV batteries into fertilizer. Recycling LFP batteries costs more than you recover. But you can convert them into potash, which the US imports 93% of from Canada. Wave of expired batteries coming as they hit end-of-life after ~10 years. Ford and GM going all in on LFP. Recycling problem becomes domestic fertilizer supply chain. UWM already has a proof of concept with the USDA.
Doorknob that recognizes your hand and unlocks on contact. No keys, no codes, no phone. Biometric sensors in the knob itself. Your grip is your key. Works for homes, offices, Airbnbs. Grant access to guests, revoke instantly. Every smart lock still requires pulling something out of your pocket. This one doesn't.
All-in-one machine that washes, dries, and folds. Or at least gets clothes out wrinkle-free. Laundry is the one chore that still needs multiple machines and multiple steps. Load dirty clothes, pull out ready to wear. Tech exists in pieces, someone just needs to put it together in something that works and fits in an apartment.
Testosterone in men has been dropping for decades. Most guys don't know theirs is low until they're exhausted, losing muscle, feeling off. Not a TRT clinic. A brand focused on fixing root causes: sleep, diet, stress, toxin exposure. Testing, protocols, supplements, coaching. Nobody owns this category yet.
Tours of places you'd never normally see. Restaurant kitchen during Friday rush. Sewage plant. Factory floor. Morgue. Air traffic control tower. People love seeing how things actually work. Charge a premium, keep groups small, partner with businesses that would never think to offer tours but have something genuinely interesting to show.
Google Lists is terrible. Build the app for saving restaurants you've been to, city recs, food spots. AI-powered suggestions. Follow friends and influencers to see their favorites. Everyone saves spots in Notes or screenshots right now. Give them a real home.
Paste a link to your podcast, YouTube, or upload a talk. AI gives you a storytelling score. Pacing, structure, hooks, emotional range. Plus ways to improve with examples of what good and bad looks like. No objective way to measure this stuff right now.
Landfills are a disaster and getting worse. India is literally burning mountains of trash. Plasma gasification, advanced composting, something new. Waste management is massive and barely innovating. Someone needs to figure out what to do with all this garbage.
Plaid but for health. Medical records, lab results, wearable data, prescriptions all scattered across dozens of systems. Build the universal API that lets any health app pull your data with one connection. Every digital health startup needs this and none of them want to build it themselves.
Point and click on any site to get that built. Any action, transcription, video, graphic... how did they build that? Point and click and you get it built into your product.