Software to help colleges manage alumni and raise money for endowment — this is a big problem for a lot of colleges. Are you tired of getting calls from your alma mater asking for donations? I’m sure they’re tired of hiring people to call you. It’s a pretty poor process overall that surprisingly no one is trying to make better.
A tool to help lawyers more quickly organize class action lawsuits — I know this sounds kind of controversial, but there’s probably hundreds of millions of dollars to be made here. Lawyers currently send out thousands of letters to get people involved and this could all be done online.
Automatic referral tracking through URL — this one is kind of technical, but every page on a product should append a unique parameter (something like ?id=532391) that way when I copy the URL and send it to a friend, they know who referred who. And a link could be permanently created between users.
A marketplace for airline tickets — this is a hard one, because you’ll have to get around a lot of airline industry regulation, but anyone who can crack it will be very successful. It’s amazing to me that if I can’t make a flight, I can’t sell my ticket to someone else.
A tool to help online services onboard users better — most products have pretty horrible onboarding flows (the steps after a users signs up) that aren’t being tested or optimized. There are a few services out there that do this, but none that have really stood out to me.
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A tool to help lawyers more quickly organize class action lawsuits — I know this sounds kind of controversial, but there’s probably hundreds of millions of dollars to be made here. Lawyers currently send out thousands of letters to get people involved and this could all be done online.
Automatic referral tracking through URL — this one is kind of technical, but every page on a product should append a unique parameter (something like ?id=532391) that way when I copy the URL and send it to a friend, they know who referred who. And a link could be permanently created between users.
A marketplace for airline tickets — this is a hard one, because you’ll have to get around a lot of airline industry regulation, but anyone who can crack it will be very successful. It’s amazing to me that if I can’t make a flight, I can’t sell my ticket to someone else.
A tool to help online services onboard users better — most products have pretty horrible onboarding flows (the steps after a users signs up) that aren’t being tested or optimized. There are a few services out there that do this, but none that have really stood out to me.