Business Munchies: Pet Care Industry, Social Stock Trading Apps, Interstate food delivery, Building Habits

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Timestamps:
(0:35) - Social Stock Trading Apps
(9:50) - The Pet Care Industry in India
(20:40) - Interstate food delivery 
(28:03) - Building habits through social accountability

Business Ideas:

1. Social Stock Trading Apps - People in India loving trading stocks and there are a bunch of WhatsApp and Telegram groups that have popped up that just give advice on what stocks to buy and when. Stallion Asset has built their PMS purely on the back of their founder, Amit Jeswani, being a financial influencer. There is a clear demand and supply of this market - how can you organise it and make it more professional? The idea is to get all the influencers giving these stock trading tips onto one platform and incentivise them by adding a transaction layer which easily allows them to monetise their following. 
2. The Pet Care Industry in India - This industry is already 3,000 crores and divided into Pet Food (2000 crores), Pet Pharma (700 crores), Pet Toys (500 crores) and other stuff. The main driver for this industry is the fast growth in the number of pet dogs and cats being adopted by families across India - there were 30 million pet dogs in India in 2019! That was up from 20 million pet dogs just a few years ago. The way to enter this industry would be either in a niche of Pet Food (vegan, healthy, raw meat, etc.) or with high quality pet toys since everything is currently imported from China. You could also start a doggy day care or get into pet sitting because people need to send their dogs somewhere when they go on vacation - but kennels are quite low quality. 
3. Interstate Food Delivery - Who wouldn't love some fresh Rasgulas from Calcutta or Hyderabadi Biryani? This idea is definitely targeted at the premium customer who can pay the high transport cost to get fresh food from one state to another. One go to market strategy for this idea would be to target high end parties where people may want to show off the fancy food that they have. Just my Roots is already doing this in India but the quality of the website clearly shows that they're not able to target the right audience. GoldBelly is a succesful US startup that has figured out this niche - they sell gourmet food with a very upmarket branding. I would love if someone built this interstate food delivery business - I want daily Sondesh delivery from Calcutta. 
4. Building Habits through Social Accountability - This is an idea that Siddharth actually tried to build. Changing habits is really tough - we're generally very easy on ourself and let our bad habits slide even though we know its bad for us. Can you build accountability for yourself either through social or financial accountability where you're socially shamed or lose money if you break your promises of improving your habits? This platform would have some kind of system where you are actually held accountable for the promises that you make to improve yourself.