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  • Sarah Guo

    AI Phone Agents for Local Businesses

    Build AI phone agents for local businesses (pest control, plumbers, HVAC, restaurants) that can't afford receptionist but lose customers by missing calls. Use tools like Bland.ai to create voice agents that answer immediately, do intake, qualify leads, and warm up customers before human follows up.
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  • Chris Koerner

    Garage Shelving

    Build and install simple, custom garage shelving using basic lumber and Costco-style totes, sold entirely through organic Facebook Marketplace posts. Low startup cost, simple tooling, and minimal marketing. Proven six-figure business built with nothing more than a saw and consistent posting.
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  • Steph Smith

    Posture Correction Business

    Target "nerd neck" from screen time with posture coaches, devices, programs. Market: anyone at computer/phone daily. Underexplored despite widespread problem. Package as online course, device subscription, or boutique studios for posture-specific training (core/back strength + correction techniques).
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  • Greg Isenberg

    My AI Tax Guy

    An AI tax assistant embedded inside ChatGPT that files quarterly and annual taxes via natural-language prompts. Connects to Stripe, Plaid, Gmail, and Google Drive to find deductions, surface missing forms (K-1s), and auto-fill filings. Removes friction for people overwhelmed by forms.
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  • Nick Gray

    Neighborhood Tech Support

    Go door-to-door offering tech support: boost WiFi, clean laptops, upgrade charging cables to USB-C max power, basic troubleshooting. Charge $100 per visit with $100 toolkit (keyboard cleaning gel, cables, basic supplies). Dress professionally, target neighbors with dirty/slow devices.
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  • Shaan Puri

    YouTube University

    Create a modern trade school for content creation, treating top YouTube creators as professors and real projects as the curriculum. Students learn videography, editing, scripting, audio, and storytelling by publishing content publicly and getting real feedback. Monetize via tuition, cohorts, and certifications.
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    Real Estate

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    AI Yard VisionA software platform that generates instant backyard designs and price estimates using satellite imagery and AI. Homeowners enter an address and receive layouts for pavers, pools, decks, or landscaping. Contractors respond faster, win more jobs, and avoid unpaid quoting.
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    Personal Finance

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    Personal Finance

    Credit Repair AIAn AI-powered credit repair assistant that helps users understand, simulate, and improve their credit score. Connects to credit bureaus, surfaces actionable steps, auto-generates dispute letters, and shows “what happens if” scenarios. The category is large but scam-ridden; the opportunity is transparency, automation, and trust. Strong SEO + ChatGPT discovery tailwinds.
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    Entertainment

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    Entertainment

    AI GrandmaA conversational AI persona designed to give warm, blunt, old-school life advice, positioned as an antidote to hyper-optimized productivity coaching. Could live as a subscription, wellness companion, or brand-able IP layered across multiple verticals.
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    Entertainment

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    Entertainment

    AI Meme StudioA tool that generates viral-style memes, slideshows, and short-form content on demand inside ChatGPT. Users prompt topics (“make a meme about startup burnout”), and the app outputs ready-to-post content optimized for TikTok and Instagram.
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    Health & Wellness

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    Health & Wellness

    AI Healthcare ConciergeA ChatGPT app that helps users find and book doctors based on insurance, specialty, and location. Users ask questions like “find me a dermatologist near me who takes Blue Cross,” and the app connects to Zocdoc and insurance networks to show real availability and booking links. Monetize via affiliate fees or enterprise partnerships.
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    Personal Finance

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    Personal Finance

    My AI Tax GuyAn AI tax assistant embedded inside ChatGPT that files quarterly and annual taxes via natural-language prompts. Connects to Stripe, Plaid, Gmail, and Google Drive to find deductions, surface missing forms (K-1s), and auto-fill filings. Removes friction for people overwhelmed by forms. High-intent queries, strong willingness to pay, and obvious expansion paths.
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    Entertainment

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    Entertainment

    AI-Native Social AppsNew social platforms designed around AI participation from day one, where some “users” are AI avatars and interaction itself is AI-mediated. Not a copy of Instagram or TikTok, but entirely new behaviors enabled by AI characters, dynamic content, and synthetic personalities.
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    Productivity

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    Productivity

    Cursor for EmailAn AI-native email client that blends directly into your inbox, pre-reads messages, researches senders, prioritizes what matters, and suggests responses in context. Unlike plugins or chatbots, this is a full client built for power users who spend their lives in email and will pay for meaningful time savings.
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    Personal Finance

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    Personal Finance

    AI Personal Finance AdvisorA conversational AI financial advisor that understands your full balance sheet, goals, and risk tolerance, then gives ongoing, CFO-level guidance. Designed for people who don’t have access to a human wealth advisor but still want reassurance, planning, and someone to “talk to” about money decisions.
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    Productivity

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    Productivity

    AI-Personalized News AgentAn AI news product that knows what you care about, pulls relevant stories automatically, summarizes them, and lets you ask follow-up questions conversationally. It behaves like a “smart friend” who’s read everything and can explain, compare, and contextualize the news on demand.
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    Lifestyle

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    Lifestyle

    Live Shopping with AI AvatarsA live-shopping platform where shoppers interact 1-on-1 with AI avatars instead of human influencers. Brands license celebrity or creator avatars that can sell products at infinite scale, answering questions and personalizing recommendations in real time.
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    Personal Growth

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    Personal Growth

    Coach K in a BoxAn AI-driven motivational system that generates hyper-personalized coaching moments like videos, speeches, and prompts, based on a user’s goals, context, and emotional state. Inspired by elite sports coaching, it’s designed to deliver the right message at the right moment (sales call, workout, decision).
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    Productivity

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    Productivity

    Context-Aware Auto CompleteAn autocomplete system that understands what you’re doing across apps, not just within one field. It uses recent context (clipboard contents, files, messages, prior conversations) to suggest the correct words, names, or phrasing in real time.
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    Lifestyle

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    Lifestyle

    AI CameraA camera app where the shutter click is the input to an AI pipeline, not the final output. The app automatically fixes blinking, bad lighting, awkward composition, background clutter, and distractions, then offers multiple high-quality variations.
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    Productivity

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    Productivity

    AI TypeformA form builder where you describe your intent in plain English and the AI generates the questions, flow, and logic for you. It dynamically adapts the UI (multiple choice, text, conversational) and later summarizes responses automatically. Instead of drag-and-drop or static fields, the product behaves like a smart interviewer that knows what questions you forgot to ask.
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