12 ideas. Filter by what you bring or the kind of business, then start one.
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An API that checks email addresses and phone numbers for businesses that send marketing
Businesses pay per check to keep bad contacts off their lists, and usage grows with each customer.
Skills you can bring: Developer skills and comfort with usage-based pricing
Per lookupStart this - 2
A phone scanner that tells building-brick collectors what their sets are worth
Collectors want to know what their collection is worth, and resale prices are public.
Skills you can bring: Collector know-how and comfort with pricing data
$5–$10/moStart this - 3
Spending limits and receipts for companies whose AI agents hold payment cards
Teams that give agents cards need spending limits and an audit trail.
Skills you can bring: Payments or finance engineering experience
$49–$199/moStart this - 4
Escrow and reputation scores for AI agents that hire and pay other agents
If AI agents start paying other agents, they will need a way to trust each other.
Skills you can bring: Payments or marketplace experience and patience with an early market
A fee per transactionStart this - 5
Billing software for AI companies that charge customers for each result delivered
More AI companies now charge for results, and most billing tools haven't caught up.
Skills you can bring: Billing or finance engineering experience
A share of billed revenueStart this - 6
A service that lets AI agents search current building permits, gathered from city records
Teams building agents need current data, and public records are messy enough that they'll pay for a clean copy.
Skills you can bring: Data engineering experience with public records
$29–$99/moStart this - 7
An API that reads freight invoice PDFs and returns clean data for logistics companies
Back offices still retype documents by hand, and one document type can be read very accurately.
Skills you can bring: Knowing one industry's paperwork and building data pipelines
$49–$199/moStart this - 8
A weekly summary of a small software team's customer feedback, grouped by theme
Small teams hear from customers in support, reviews and sales calls, and lose the pattern across them.
Skills you can bring: Product management experience
$49/moStart this - 9
A daily spreadsheet of auction results from a public site, for teams that need the data
Teams want the data but not the upkeep, and they'll pay for a feed that keeps working.
Skills you can bring: Building data pipelines and knowing who needs one dataset
$49/moStart this - 10
An AI agent that matches freelancers' receipts to card charges each week and flags missing ones
Freelancers dread hunting for receipts at tax time, and weekly matching keeps the books ready.
Skills you can bring: Bookkeeping habits and careful data handling
$15/moStart this - 11
Price ranges from photos for house painters, sent to customers within the hour
Homeowners want a rough price before they book a visit, and a quick range from photos gets them talking.
Skills you can bring: Experience pricing house-painting jobs
$49/moStart this - 12
Moving quotes from customers' video walkthroughs, for local moving companies
Customers want a moving quote without a home visit, and a quote from a short video saves both sides a trip.
Skills you can bring: Experience estimating household moves
$99/moStart this