
Business Brainstorms
By Jakob Greenfeld

Business BrainstormsMar 17, 2021

Brainstorming business ideas with Michael Greenberg

Flipping Wordpress and Shopify plugins for fun and profit with Vikas Singhal

Brainstorming niche site ideas with Jake Lang

Brainstorming remote work opportunities with Sagiv Ofek
This episode is brought to you by Founder Flywheel.
Sagiv's website Sagiv's Twitter profile Sagiv's summary of our conversation
Brainstorming SaaS ideas with Tom Zaragoza

Unbundling Fiverr and winning the Great Online Game with John Bardos

Brainstorming Business Ideas with David Kofoed Wind: Figma for X, Capterra automations, and travel adventures

Brainstorming Business Ideas with Andrew Lynch: The opposite of the metaverse, living in nature with friends, Zero to Wine, and Primal Weekends

Abandoned Assets, "be ready when they slip", and finance tracking with Tom Dekan

Better outsourcing and professional matchmaking ideas with Tom Dekan

Brainstorming indie maker ideas with Xavier Coiffard (job boards, form builders, ...)

Brainstorming Data Products, Jungle Scout for X, and Airtable Alternatives with Jordan Hansen

🤖 Brainstorming GPT-3 Business Ideas with Harish Garg
Harish is a GPT-3 consultant, founder of MynaOne, and author of the "Definite Guide to building products with OpenAI".

Mining idea gold on the Shopify App store with Daniel Sim

Brainstorming Shopify for SaaS with Travis Fischer
This podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so.
Right now Travis is building Senpai, an asynchronous video platform that allows creators to monetize their expertise. Travis is pretty active on Twitter and you should also check out his amazing blog where he's sharing all the lessons from his ventures.
Unearthing Opportunities with Alejandro Navia (Psilocybin, Microdosing, and Transformation)

Opportunities in real estate with Peter Fabor
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Summary of the episode. Peter's website. Peter's Twitter account. Peter's thread on travel niches are growing like crazy.
Unearthing Opportunities with Matt Klein

Brainstorming opportunities in the WordPress ecosystem with Iain Poulson
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Resources mentioned in the episode:
Iain's website Iain's Twitter account Plugin Rank (Iain's SaaS tool for plugin creators) Integrate (Iain's WordPress-Instagram plugin) WP Trends (Iain's Newsletter) WP User Manager (the plugin Iain acquired) WPContent.io (Iain's WordPress community) WP Rocket (the premium caching plugin that succeeded despite strong competition) Freemius (service that makes it simple to sell WordPress plugin subscriptions)
Unearthing Opportunities with Keevin O'Rourke (Part II)

Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kim (Part II)
Andrew's idea list
3. Design Assessment Platform (enterprise Coderbyte but for UX/UI Designers) 4. Speed Runs of Non-Games (GamesDoneQuick but for other digital activities) 1. Homeschooling Extracurricular activities (have homeschooled kids socialize more) 5. Piggyback Distribution. Micro influencer marketing. (get slack/discord/subreddit active community members to 'hunt' your product) 2. Be my guest. Play at exclusive member only places (primarily golf clubs to begin)Summary
Jakob and Andrew discuss the idea for design assessment platform, like CoderByte, but for UX/UI designers (1:28) Jakob and Andrew moves on to the next idea – speed runs of non-games (12:04) Jakob and Andrew discuss plans on how to monetize the project / idea (20:09) Jakob and Andrew move on to homeschooling extra-curricular activities (22:28) Jakob and Andrew discusses the next idea – micro influencer marketing (32:17) Jakob asks what the missing link is in the current ecosystem (34:50) Jakob and Andrew discusses their experiences in private / public communities (36:17) Jakob mentions that there's room for improvement for communities in general (44:41) Jakob and Andrew talk about their experience using Circle (46:46) Jakob and Andrew then move to the last idea: find a way to play at exclusive member only places like golf clubs (49:53) Andrew tells what originally prompted this idea (52:57) Jakob mentions how the two last ideas are connected (55:25) Andrew decides what idea he want to execute (57:13)
Unearthing Opportunities with Keevin O'Rourke

Unearthing Opportunities with Max Mirho
Jakob explains how and why he reached out to Max (01:20)<br />
Max describes and enumerates what they do on a live show and in business (02:13)<br />
Jakob and Max discusses more about the latter’s business model and its sustainability (04:51)<br />
Max talks about the tools he uses as his primary sponsorship source and eventually scaling it up (05:04)<br />
Max tells Jakob the story behind his unnamed agency (07:12)<br />
Max mentions how he discovered that speaking at universities, especially private schools, are profitable (11:50)<br />
Max talks about how and why he got into the LinkedIn platform (17:27)<br />
Max discuss about the project’s focus being on the tech side (20:26)<br />
Jakob talks about product ideation (22:12)<br />
Max says that a lot of stuff they build is more product focused and that he plans to build these into real scalable things (23:38)<br />
Max mentions Superstack and explains how he wants to build it (29:48)<br />
Jakob talks about his project that collects Substack data and Max expresses his interested (32:40)<br />
Max tells more about his plan to launch an online course about LinkedIn automations, SEO, building websites, etc. (34:56)<br />
Jakob and Max talk about the benefits of using Twitter (40:35)<br />

Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kim
Andrew's ideas:
1. Productize my ProductHunt profile as a "Good Luck Charm" because I have the lucky of being user #777777
2. Negotiation Practice or interviewing.io for negotiations (not just salary)
3. Start with a "Why So Expensive" product, and build something around that
4. Collabs GAN (Generative Adversarial Network)
5. Dynamic Price Widget

Unearthing Opportunities with Luke Cannon

Unearthing Opportunities with Aswin John

Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kamphey
Resources we talked about:
List of 100 business ideas by Andrew 7 Newsletter Product Ideas for Indie Hackers by Andrew 9 Podcast Product Ideas for Indie Hackers by Andrew Better Sheets Twitter templates by Andrew A tool I built based on the ideation framework shared by Andrew
Unearthing Opportunities with Menajem Benchimol
Resources we talked about
Product Byte Trends.co Trends.vc Keevin O'Rouke's profile and Product Byte updates on Indiehackers Software Ideas by Kevin Conti Rappi app
Unearthing Opportunities with Brian Burrous
Resources we talked about:
Capiche.FM My First Million podcast Agency Course How I built this podcast Dickie Bush's Ship 30 for 30 challenge David Perell's Write of Passage Course https://twitter.com/brandonthezhang(his first essay was indeed shared by David Perell) The Day You Became A Better Writer by Scott Adams Writing Guide by Julian Shapiro Fast, Slow Notes by Andy Matuschak The Krystal Theme for Tiddly Wiki

Unearthing Opportunities with Daniel K. Hunter
We talk about:
Launching on Product Hunt Deals for indie makers why private communities don't really solve the problems that public communities have. Painpoints.io Indie Hackers Trends.vc IndieDrops.com Product Explorer Gum Spy IndieThinkers.org Nesslabs https://jakobgreenfeld.com/gut Trends.co Kaggle Peter Askew RanchWork.com https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/