Startups For the Rest of Us

In episode 638, Rob Walling chats with Justin Vincent about how to generate startup ideas. They share 8 startup ideas in this episode along with Justin’s approach for coming up with thousands of startup ideas. Topics we cover:  1:58 - Coming up with SaaS ideas 3:51 - Transcription for team meetings 11:42 - Online time capsule 15:41 - Pest control using drones 20:29 - Prerecorded live interviews 25:06 - Special diet builder 26:30 - AI-casting director 29:53 - Cash burn alert for VC 31:47 - database modeling tool Links from the Show: Justin Vincent (@justinvincent) I Twitter Nugget.one Techzing Episode 526 I Launching, learning and teaching with Justin Vincent  If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you. Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher Transcript: Rob Walling: Welcome back to another episode of Startups For the Rest of Us. I'm Rob Walling, and today I welcome Justin Vincent on the show. We talk a bit about how to generate startup ideas, plus look at eight ideas he brings to the show that you can steal. Justin and I had a great time talking through these ideas. He had sourced them from a few mastermind friends of his, as well as his own brand. He has a tendency for coming up with ideas. I really enjoyed our conversation. If you don't know of Justin, he is the co-host of the TechZing Podcast, and he also, last time he was on this show, was running nugget.one, which is a community for early stage founders, as well as bunch of business ideas, 4000 he tells me. I thought it was 800, but 4000 different business ideas that he had gathered over a few years. He is no longer focused on that. He's moved on to a new idea, which we will talk about in the show, so let's dive right into our conversation about generating startup ideas. I want to ask you about coming up with startup ideas because A, it's something that you have done a lot. I mean, I heard you do it on TechZing, your podcast, many times coming up with ideas and even just bringing new ideas, talking through them with your co-hots. But I also watched you start Nugget, nugget.one, which we've talked about here on the show before, where you didn't generate all these ideas yourself, but you did bring them in, evaluate them, and kind of churn them through, and there's 780 of them or something like that. Justin Vincent: 4000. Rob Walling: Are there? Oh, my gosh. I was looking at the premium ones. So 4000, holy moly. Justin Vincent: Yeah. That's right. Rob Walling: And you have generously allowed me to talk about some of them in the YouTube series that I'm doing. About every six weeks, eight weeks, I do a, here are some SaaS ideas to get your mind going basically. And so the YouTube channel, I'll start showing some of those. But really today I want to talk about A, your process for coming up with ideas, and then you had some ideas you wanted to bring to the show, that you wanted to talk to listeners about. Justin Vincent: Yeah. So since we set this up, I've just been thinking through stuff. I've asked a couple of people for some ideas. And let's see, I've got nine ideas for you. I've got two ideas that I think would be good for solo boot strappers because there's a specific kind of context. I think your context really matters about the idea that you pick. And that's actually kind of a big part of why I started Nugget in the first place, because I realized I was really bad at picking ideas, so I wanted to just do that thing where I got a chance to test it out many, many, many times. And ultimately, you know what I've learned over 25 years? I've learned that I need to do a to-do app because that's where I'm at. That makes the most sense for me. And it's finally, I'm going to actually build something very good that's very useful. There's so many different les