The Shopify Moment for AI Labor: Owning Worklines on MuleRun
MuleRun hit 600K users offering promotional economics to fill their marketplace. Workline owners capture value; single-agent builders get commoditized.
IC: Community Chatter
Forum, social, and community insights that expose needs, hacks, and frustrations.
The Black Book: Build a Private Intel Network for the Anti-Viral Economy
TikTok made gatekeeping valuable again. Build a paid trust network for recommendations that never go viral—and charge venues for access.
Snack Drop Hunter + Data Play
QSRs run $200K limited drops with no real-time visibility. Build the verified hunt map that becomes their demand oracle.
Build the AG1 of Mobility: Gen Z's Mobility Aesthetics
Nearly 20% of Gen Z uses joint supplements. The category hit $14B and projects to $27B. No brand positions mobility like skincare yet.
The Living Room Franchise
Silent reading events surged 223% while commercial real estate bleeds off-peak. The format scales, the membership model is missing.
The Missing macOS Layer for Dasung's $2,000 E-Ink Monitors
E-ink monitor displaying crisp text, macOS menu bar, eye strain relief icon, Dasung company logo, VS Code editor interface
Strava for Mental Resets (How to Monetize Dopamenus)
Everyone's selling dopamine menu templates. The real opportunity: build the social layer where people discover, fork, and share their reset rituals.
The Stripe Play for AI Companion Apps (Collect the $5M Compliance Toll)
New York and California mandated crisis detection for AI companions. 337 apps need compliance infrastructure by January. None want to build it themselves.
From 30-Day Challenges to Seven-Figure Platform
Creators are duct-taping 30-day challenges with Docs + drips. The wedge: “Seasons”—an advent-calendar format for transformation (daily unlocks, spoiler-proof sharing, finite finish line). 100 creators × $50K/yr = $5M GMV; a 10–15% take = $500K–$750K.
Blue Collar "Moneyball" Recruiting
Gen Z wants trades, contractors need workers, but matching infrastructure is prehistoric—measurement layer wins, not another job board.
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.
Blue-Collar Cred Empire
Fashion distributed workwear as identity. High-income professionals want the competence to match—and they'll pay premium retreat prices to earn it.
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.
Governance AI for Self-Managed HOAs
373,000 volunteer-run associations managing $120B annually with amateur controls and predictable fraud patterns, creating structural demand for purpose-built governance infrastructure.
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.
"Oh-Shit" Bar for WordPress
Most newsrooms use AI daily but lack pre-publish safety gates. When prompt remnants ship to print, screenshots go viral and Legal starts asking questions.
Offline Ritual Kits (aka the House Phone Comeback)
A Stanford grad's $280K handset launch proved people pay for phone boundaries—but the durable business is owning offline ritual formats, not selling another cute gadget.
Ghost Job Detection Infrastructure
Job boards sell hope without proof. Regulators want disclosure. Build the hiring internet's "nutrition label" for jobs. Start as a ghost-job detector. Finish as the verification standard.
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.
The Creami OS Heist
Viral kitchen appliances are training millions in process engineering. The software layer for troubleshooting complex workflows doesn't exist yet.
Vibe Coaching
Video verification is becoming mandatory across dating and professional platforms. Identity proves you're real—camera presence proves you're trustworthy.
Identity Commerce Platform for Menswear
Quarter-zip phenomenon proves men buy identities, not clothes. $130B+ menswear market shifting from disposable microtrends to stackable, nameable uniforms with built-in community.
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.