There’s way more ideas than time to work on them. I have a notion page with ~100 startup ideas I’ve collected over the years. Here’s a curated list of the ideas that I think are really promising and I wish they would exist. Please build them!

Automate your nutrition

Eating is a very fundamental thing for humans.

We eat two big meals a deal every day of our lives, that’s ~58,400 meals in a lifetime! Neverthless, getting each of these meals ready it’s quite a high effort: buy groceries, mantain an inventory of groceries at home, spend ~10-60min cooking, plan meals in advance, learn about healthy nutrition etc…

This feels so last century.

My guess is that nutrition will be totally autoamted in the near future, and that it’s technically possible today.

The key things for it to work would be:

  1. Subscription
  2. No choice
  3. Tasty
  4. Home delivery
  5. Fresh
  6. Healty
  7. Affordable
  8. Mobile App

1. Subscription

You pay ~€300/mo for a subscription. Subscribe once and forget about paying for food forever. You don’t make a payment every time you want to eat.

2. No choice

For everyday nutrition you don’t want to make a decision in advance about what you want to eat every day for lunch and dinner. The app should bring you food without your input, you just receive food and eat. Maybe you can add some recommendations in the app to customize slightly the meals.

3. Tasty

This is probably the hardest thing to get right. You will be making food for 1000s of people and all of them have to find it delicious, and continue to find it deliceous for months and the years. The most likely outcome is that you’ll end up repeating dishes and users will end up hating your food.

4. Home delivery

The food comes to you, everyday. You just receive it and eat it. No logistics when it’s lunch time!

5. Fresh

Food is fresh every day, not frozen. You can’t automate your whole nutrition with frozen food, society is not going to do it.

6. Healty

Everyone wants to eat healty, but it’s hard. So hard that a lot of people read a long list of books to undersatnd how it works. If you build a product that it’s really nutritionally balanced you are effectively automating and selling health as well. This has higher value than just the eating.

7. Affordable

It’s not ridiculosly expensive. I guess you start expensive for power users and then lower price.

8. Mobile App

Managing your nutrition is something that is very close to your human experience. You need a mobile app to interact very easily, multiple times a week without friction. To do things like “today I’m OOO, don’t bring my food”

Size of the market

Huge. Let’s do some napkin math just for barcelona.

500k adults in barcelona * €300/mo * 12mo/y = €1.8B/y

And that’s just barcelona!

Why nobody notices?

It is crazy that for a primary necessity like nutrition, most people still cook themselves and this hasn’t been automated yet. Why nobody really notices? I think because this observation is most easy to see in the transition period from living at your parents house where this happens for you, to having to take care about it. Once you’re already in the loop of cooking for yourself you no longer notice the crazyness of it.

Zoom for Musicians

If you had a Zoom for musicians you could…

  • jam on the internet
  • meet people
  • concerts
  • music lessons

The human ear can notice two soundwaves are not in sync if they are >10ms appart. But the maximum delay to play together I guess it’s going to be much higher, 100ms-200ms?

The challenge is optimizing all the tech stack so that you can play music with low delay, and it’s useful.

It seems technically possible but it doesn’t seem anyone has turned it into a real-world product that creates the impact that this could have!