This Google Doc Has $10M Startup Ideas in It (My Secret Sauce)
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Jun 13, 2025
Discover 17 innovative strategies for generating startup ideas in the AI era! Learn how to use ChatGPT to identify tedious workflows and mine your own usage history for potential products. Explore online platforms like Reddit to unearth unaddressed needs and analyze friction points between tools for opportunities. Delve into service marketplaces to spot manual tasks that could benefit from automation. This discussion is packed with practical insights for both aspiring and seasoned entrepreneurs looking to innovate!
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Use AI to Find Pain Points
Use ChatGPT to uncover tedious workflows in specific jobs that AI could automate.
Focus on the most painful tasks as solving them offers a strong product opportunity.
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Analyze Your ChatGPT History
Review your ChatGPT history to spot repeated prompts you use often; these indicate unmet needs.
Turn frequently repeated AI prompts into niche product ideas that solve those pains.
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Search Reddit for Tool Requests
Search Reddit via Google for questions about tool availability in your niche.
Identify unmet demand by reading user requests and frustrations about missing tools.
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I share 17 practical methods for generating viable startup ideas in the AI era. The strategies focus on identifying pain points, tedious workflows, and manual processes that could be automated or improved with AI. These techniques can help both aspiring entrepreneurs seeking new ventures and established startup founders looking to expand their product offerings.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro 01:48 - Method 1: Using ChatGPT to identify tedious workflows 06:08 - Method 2: Analyzing your ChatGPT history 09:11 - Method 3: Searching Reddit for tool requests 12:00 - Methods 4-7: Finding friction points and using Idea Browser 15:08 - Methods 8-11: Exploring niche groups and software review sites 19:13 - Methods 12-15: Learning from agency owners and job titles 24:06 - Methods 16-17: Finding opportunities in low-rated but high-usage plugins
Key Points:
• Use ChatGPT to identify tedious workflows in specific professions that AI could automate • Analyze your own ChatGPT history to find repeated prompts that could become products • Search online platforms (Reddit, Facebook, Discord) for people asking about tools that don't exist • Examine where you copy/paste between tools as these friction points represent startup opportunities • Browse service marketplaces like Upwork and Fiverr to find manual tasks ripe for AI automation
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