Methodology v1.0 · Oct 17, 2026
The state of real startup ideas.
Ten views of report 01. The numbers are the catalog, not a traffic dashboard. A CSV of the same table sits at the bottom.
100ideas
20categories
15,919upvotes read
7,460comments read
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Caregiving & Aging Parents, Productivity & Notes, IT, Sysadmin & MSP lead the catalog, with 10, 9, 9 ideas.
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Mean hotness is 3.31. 6 ideas are scorching, at 4.0 or above. 3 are cool.
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Careers & Hiring has the highest average hotness (3.85). Caregiving & Aging Parents has the most ideas and sits at 3.41.
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Dots in the top-right are easier to build and still hot. Each dot opens the idea.
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Freemium is the most common model (23). Toggle to see price bands.
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39 of 100 ideas need no AI at all. That is 39 percent.
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53 ideas sell to a business. 47 sell to a person.
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30 ideas are scoped as a two-week MVP. The squares below are the whole catalog, one each.
Thirty of these are a two-week shape. We build one from $10,000.
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r/povertyfinance is the loudest community by upvotes plus comments (3,977).
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