Blue Collar "Moneyball" Recruiting
Gen Z wants trades, contractors need workers, but matching infrastructure is prehistoric—measurement layer wins, not another job board.
Commerce / Marketplace
E-commerce, marketplace, and product-driven startup ideas connecting buyers and sellers. From digital products to curated goods, these models offer strong growth potential through niche positioning and repeat customer engagement.
The Bluesky Feed Heist
Bluesky's custom feeds fragment distribution across hundreds of micro-algorithms. The cross-tool measurement and monetization layer doesn't exist yet—same opportunity SEO tools captured with Google.
The Indie Drops Club
Main Street collapsed from missing infrastructure, not missing demand. Weekly verified drops with pickup networks create the ritual that turns local preference into $100K+ MRR.
The "Grandma-as-a-Service" Marketplace
When AI floods every category with free how-tos, human verification becomes the scarce resource worth paying for.
The $20 TikTok Launch Lab
A repeatable system for identifying, validating, and scaling visually demonstrable products through creator-native distribution and structured experimentation.
TikTok Food Trend Monetization
A century-old German cheese is selling out because a high school English teacher in Georgia found the laziest lunch in America. Viral recipes consistently cause grocery sellouts. The rails for shoppable content exist—but no one owns the trend-to-cart attribution layer yet.
Organic Ad Underwriting Platform
Meta validated organic-to-paid workflow. The $37B opportunity is cross-platform prediction, rights management, and routing intelligence that platforms won't build.
Creator Operations Platform for Home Improvement
Major retailers launched first-party creator programs. The infrastructure for managing multiple affiliate relationships across platforms doesn't exist yet.
Plant Tissue Culture Kits & Clone Lab Infrastructure
A YouTuber democratized tissue culture and crashed rare plant prices. The real money moved upstream to kits, skills, and infrastructure.
Live Host Guild for Live Commerce
Whatnot hit $6B GMV, but live streams remain tiny. The bottleneck isn't tech—it's talent. Build the guild that plugs hosts into inventory-rich merchants.
Trust Layer for TikTok Shop
TikTok Shop users regret 23% of purchases. Build the trust layer that captures post-viral buyers seeking quality over hype.
Micro-App Studio Opportunity
Wabi and Lovable validated AI app creation infrastructure. The real opportunity isn't building apps—it's becoming the monetization layer that captures portfolio value.
Commerce Platform for Psychic Industry
Spiritual practitioners generate billions in services but lack commerce infrastructure connecting bookings, inventory, memberships, and ritual calendars into one platform.
Mood OS for Gen Z Emotional Commerce
Gen Z spends hundreds monthly on emotional regulation through "treat culture." The infrastructure connecting physical rituals, creator distribution, and behavioral data remains wide open.
Premium Physical Notebook Brand Platform
Premium notebooks are growing 4–5% annually while Amazon KDP cracks down on AI spam—opening a compliance moat for curated physical products.
Roblox Creator Asset Production Pipeline
AI just commoditized 3D generation. Roblox demand is spiking. The gap between "cool demo" and "shippable, engine-ready assets" is wide open.
Identity-Driven Mushroom Coffee Brands
Big Beverage is buying culture, not chemistry. Mushroom coffee incumbents still sell generic benefits—leaving identity-first positioning wide open for micro-tribe operators.
Desk-Friendly Breakfast Brands
Hybrid workers skip breakfast 39% of the time, eating at desks when they do—creating a TikTok-native convenience play beyond traditional CPG channels.
Modular Fragrance Layering System
Gourmand fragrance searches exploded 77% while Kayali's pistachio scent went viral—but nobody's built the modular system TikTok's layering culture actually wants.
StockX for Restaurant Equipment
Restaurant liquidations hit record highs while secondhand equipment trades like a 1970s flea market. The pricing chaos creates a massive arbitrage opportunity.
Data-First CPG Launch Platform
FlavCity's scanner app tracked 18M users' dietary constraints before launching CPG products, reversing the traditional brand-building sequence with data-first manufacturing.
TikTok Shop DIY Kit Brands
Smart operators hit seven figures selling Dubai chocolate DIY kits while TikTok Shop's order-volume caps create an accidental moat against casual sellers.