👻 Founder Treat: 500+ Unclaimed Startup Ideas

👻 Founder Treat: 500+ Unclaimed Startup Ideas

Happy Friday Builders,

Who's dressed up for Halloween on Sunday? We thought FB was with its new name change. Then we realized it didn't swap back this morning. Surprise, surprise. For the early mornin' day traders out there, don't forget to change your Robinhood watchlist from $FB to $MVRS on Dec 1st. Another special shoutout to our friends @ Tesla for hitting the trillion-dollar club.

Today's lineup:

  • 3 Frameworks for Startup Ideas
  • New Feature Drops You Voted For
  • Cool Things Kernalers Are Building

Put your feet up, sip your latte and let's dive in. ☕️

⚡️ 3 Frameworks for Million Dollar Startup Ideas

Our team's pretty bullish on the MFM podcast. So when we heard Jack Abraham of Atomic came on to chat startup frameworks with Sam and Shaan, we had to drop the napkin notes for you to steal his formulas:

  1. Build a product people want but is too expensive: Turn high luxury items into very accessible items for the everyday spender. Uber democratized private drivers at cost. Airbnb made luxury condos on standby.
  2. Turn a 14 chrome tab process into 1 streamlined process: booking online travel used to be a headache. Kayak pulled it into 1 site.
  3. Relocation of Similar Business Models: When a startup idea blows up in SF, who's holding back South Africa or Tokyo from launching a similar idea and beating them to the target market? Keep that one in your back pocket for a rainy day.
Wanna cue up the episode for your Saturday chores, save it here.

🍫 Feature Drops Sweeter Than Candy

Free Hershey bars are tasty, but nothing is sweeter than new features on Kernal. With the Kernal feedback portal alive and well, we've already built 2 requests that you, our users, have asked for. Here's what we've been staying late up to build: 🌙

Feature #1: Filter Startup Ideas by Status

  • Filter by "Unclaimed" to find ideas that are shared by the community that are open for others to run with:

    The users who share these startup ideas are  not pursuing them. That's what makes this community great. Our users want great ideas to exist and they are not afraid to share them. Maybe they just don't have the time, space or domain knowledge to execute. With this new feature, you can easily find the ideas that are up for grabs. 🕵️‍♀️
  • Filter by "Seeking Team Members" to find startup ideas that are in progress and want to partner up with other Kernalers.
  • Filter by "Seeking Investment" to find startup ideas that want to connect with investors.
Pro-tip: Want to change the status of your existing ideas? Go to My Ideas and click the "Status" button

Feature #2: Claim a Startup Idea

Now that you can easily find ideas that are up for grabs, you can also take ownership of them as well.

  1. Click on a startup idea
  2. Scroll down to the "Status" section
  3. Click the "Claim this idea" button

Once you've done that, you can start posting progress updates to let everyone know there's a new sheriff in town and keep the followers of the idea engaged on the milestones you're hitting. 🤠

Feature #3: Team Up on a Startup Idea

Often, many of you have had a similar idea to one that's already been posted on Kernal. Or perhaps you've started an idea on your own but are looking for others to bring their expertise to the table. Now you can easily send a request to team up and put additional brainpower on executing an idea. 🧠

To join a startup idea:

  1. Click on the startup idea
  2. Scroll down to the "Team" section
  3. Click the "Request to Team Up" button
  4. Add a personal message telling the creator why you'd like to team up and what skills you bring to the table

The creator will receive the request and accept or decline it. Once accepted, team members can add other users, share progress updates and adjust the status of an idea.

Have ideas to improve Kernal? We're listening 👂
These feature requests come directly from your feedback, comments and requests. If you have a suggestion on how to make Kernal more valuable to you, let us know.  

🍪 Startup Goodies Made by Kernalers

🥤Community Updates:

The winner of the Smoothie Contest issssss: Nick Loper! With his startup idea titled 1-Click Unsubscribe for Physical Mail. Keep your eyes peeled for a deeper dive on his idea next week where he's won free a PR package to get his idea Smoothied and his idea featured on Kernal.

That's it for updates today. Off to the startup ideas. If you've got a friend that'd like to catch next week's newsletter, send them this invite code.

Up-vote and comment on our freshest ideas of the week.

1-Click Unsubscribe for Physical Mail
We have CAN-SPAM laws, GDPR rules, and even a Do-Not-Call registry, yet physical junk mail — that’s made out of actual trees! — is painful to stop. That’s why we need an easy way to “report spam” and/or unsubscribe from real paper mail. OpportunityJunk mail has a huge environmental footprint and …
Crypto Tipping App
In today’s inflation-ridden market, crypto is increasingly gaining steam as a way of hedging against said inflation while building fast-growing wealth. Even diverting small amounts of money incrementally is a great way to build wealth for the future. I was thinking of building an application that…
Gamify DEI- App that challenges teams to take action
OpportunityCompanies are looking for solutions to retain their employees, commit to social responsibility and build diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies.Companies spend $8B annually on DEI services.The DEI HR Tech space is $313M and growing. CustomersThis app would target Directors of H…
App/program/database to auto-sync and store social media content
For creators who use social media to build their community, the gatekeeper to their content is the platform that hosts it. What happens when, for example, a Twitter/IG account gets taken down for some unknown reason? Years of content-building and ideas are lost. Solution: An app/program database to…
Help seekers find the perfect place to live, high-touch
A year ago I wrote a blog post about how we decided where to live: https://alexisgrant.com/2020/01/06/how-to-decide-where-to-live/ TLDR: We made a spreadsheet with lots of places + factors and then visited them to narrow down and choose. We ended up in a small town in West Virginia that wasn’t on a…

🥁 Meme of the Week

Analysts, hold strong till year-end. You got this. 🙏

Go have some fun this weekend.

💚 The Kernal fam

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