17 ideas. Filter by what you bring or the kind of business, then start one.
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Professional headshots for job seekers, made by AI from a few selfies
Job seekers want a good profile photo without booking a photographer, and image models now make convincing ones.
Skills you can bring: A photographer's eye for light, pose and a face that looks off
$29–$49Start this - 2
A link-in-bio page and booking storefront for tattoo artists
Tattoo artists already pay for bio pages, and one built for their bookings serves them better than a general one.
Skills you can bring: Contacts among tattoo artists and taste in page design
$9/moStart this - 3
An add-on for presentation software that turns consultants' notes into finished slides
Consultants pay to skip formatting slides, and AI can now build a draft deck in seconds.
Skills you can bring: Strong taste in presentation design
$10/moStart this - 4
A gift-idea finder that suggests presents from photos of the person receiving them
Gift shoppers look for ideas every holiday season, and photos give AI clues to a person's taste.
Skills you can bring: A knack for gifts and a following that shops your picks
Affiliate commissionsStart this - 5
An AI stylist for plus-size women that earns from affiliate links to the clothes
Plus-size shoppers struggle to find clothes that fit, and many look for style help made for them.
Skills you can bring: Personal style for plus-size bodies and a following that shares it
Affiliate commissionsStart this - 6
A planning app for couples having a micro-wedding or elopement
Couples planning small weddings need help but not a full planner's price.
Skills you can bring: Wedding-planning experience and taste in small, personal events
$29–$79Start this - 7
Monitoring for small teams' scheduled jobs, with an alert when a job fails to run
A scheduled job that silently stops is often found weeks later, and a missed-run alert is cheap to provide.
Skills you can bring: Operations experience and taste for small developer tools
$9/moStart this - 8
A shared viewer for coding-agent sessions, so a team can watch, comment on and take over a run
Coding agents run in one person's terminal, and teams want to review and steer that work together.
Skills you can bring: Building developer tools and leading a team that uses agents
$15 per seat/moStart this - 9
Private hosting for the small internal tools teams now build with AI, for up to ten people
People can now build a small tool for their team in an afternoon, then have nowhere safe to share it.
Skills you can bring: Infrastructure experience and a feel for what non-engineers need
$20/mo per toolStart this - 10
Tests that run a team's AI prompts on each new model and show what changed
A model update can quietly change a product's answers, and teams want to see the difference before users do.
Skills you can bring: Experience shipping AI features
$49/moStart this - 11
A chat bot that writes each engineer's daily standup from yesterday's commits and tickets
Engineers dislike writing status updates, and most of what they'd say is already in their tools.
Skills you can bring: Experience leading engineering teams
$5 per user/moStart this - 12
Client libraries in three languages for API companies, built from their API spec and kept current
API companies need client libraries but can't staff them, and an accurate spec does most of the work.
Skills you can bring: Writing libraries in several programming languages
$199/moStart this - 13
A tool that records, replays and compares webhooks for developers debugging them
Debugging webhooks means waiting for real events, and replaying a saved one skips the wait.
Skills you can bring: Experience building integrations between software systems
$15/moStart this - 14
A status page with uptime checks for one-person software companies, set up in a minute
Solo founders need to look reliable, and a status page answers customers before they write in.
Skills you can bring: Experience building small, reliable web services
$9/moStart this - 15
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 - 16
Architecture diagrams for software teams, drawn from their code and redrawn on each merge
Diagrams go out of date the week they're drawn, and generating them from code keeps them accurate.
Skills you can bring: System design and a clear visual sense
$29/moStart this - 17
Finished-job photo checks for mobile car detailers, sent to the customer with the invoice
Photos of the finished car settle disputes and sell the next detail, so detailers want them sent every time.
Skills you can bring: Experience detailing cars
$49/moStart this