2022 startup company ideas
Another year, more free ideas 2023-05-13 #startups
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Startup ideas have no business value, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy them. It also helps to reflect on how we might realistically address the struggling moments that inspire them.
Calendars
Status Calendar - a calendar with status codes for more expressive meeting request rejections, based on HTTP status codes, because many categories don’t require a longer explanation:
| Code | Rejection reason | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Agenda Missing | If you don’t know why you want a meeting, I don’t know if I have time |
| 401 | Talk To My Secretary First | You’re not authorised to claim my time |
| 404 | On Holiday | You won’t find me at work then |
| 405 | Ask On Slack First | This meeting could also be a text message |
| 406 | I Only Do Zoom | You proposed an in-person meeting in another country |
| 409 | Conflict | I can only attend one meeting at a time |
| 425 | Too Early | There’s something I can’t get out of then… bed |
| 429 | Too Many Requests | Make. The. Meeting. Invitations. Stop. |
| 451 | Unavailable For Legal Reasons | I had to take out a restraining order against you |
Categorical - a calendar that lets you categorise events, e.g. ‘pointless meetings’, and shows the total hours per category for the current view and so far, e.g. ‘hours spent in pointless meetings this week’, ‘Tactical naps - year to date’.
Workplace
Meme school - executive training for remote work: memes and emoji training for executives who need to adapt to async remote-first communication.
Meet DJ - Basic DJ skills training for executives who want to master the art of playing intro music to warm up arrivals to their online meetings.
Commute Zero - In-office residential units for companies with under-utilised office space - ‘don’t work from home, live in the office!’.
Social media
Fesshole Poll - a bot that follows every anonymous Fesshole confession with a poll, to give confessors feedback:
- You’re forgiven
- Not forgiven
Feedback Buddy - provides a platform for people to give each other feedback, promoting consent and trust, to help people get better at giving and receiving feedback and educate companies to replace annual review cycles with immediate feedback.
Birdsong - a Twitter alternative with proper thread functionality, and the ability for me to automatically mute threads longer than three posts, and address Jason Knight’s complaint:
If anyone has any lukewarm exposes today, please start up a 50-Tweet thread. It’s definitely the best way to try to present information 🧐
Fluidr - a dating app that models gender as free text and encourages gender identity creativity, for when it absolutely has to be a post-hipster metrosexual lumberjack or a femme Firefly engineer.
Real world
Pterodactyl Classics - Small (178 mm) paperback editions of classic software development non-fiction, like Penguin Books does for classic literature, but with more stylish retro covers than O’Reilly Pocket Guides.
Smug Cloud - Comparative weather app that compares much worse weather at home with what you get while you’re on holiday.
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