Startup ideas for designers and developers

1. Wix for android and iOS apps.

It really is time for this to happen. Drag-dropping the inbuilt templates can prove to be highly useful during hackathons and whenever there arrives the need to present prototypes urgently. In such utopia, pitch deck’s and BMC’s (Business model canvas) will be made in comparatively less time.

2. Grammarly for prototyping principles.

It would indeed be such a bliss to receive rectifications and alerts if the design misaligns or does not match the core product values. In the era where UI/UX designing has been such a buzz, very less designers have actually read definitive guidelines for design principles. This tool will help designers who straightaway embarked on designing voyage out of enthusiasm and their love for design. So every time you use an invalid font style or placeholder, there’s a bot/notification to point out your mistake and suggest variegated solutions to it.

3. Inshorts version of product hunt

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have notifications for all apps per category and their descriptions in 60 words? Also bookmarking will happen so quickly! Product hunt surely allows saving and managing collections for every app and also an app description with less than 15 words as a tag line. But, having Inshorts version for product hunt will be a flood of tech insights.

4. Given the ingredients, an auto AI bot that generates sattvik recipes

All the mothers across India will get blissed out of such application, for they don’t have to ask all the family members of what to cook for a day. Just by inputting ingredients, a trained neural network will derive a simplistic recipe dish. The bot can also take inputs from mothers for previous recipes they had baked, by which the bot will ensure the correctness in cooking methodology.

5. Meme, GIF or comics generator for all psychotherapy lessons

Wouldn’t it be awesome to actually receive psychotherapy word and concept updates which affects our lives? Psychotherapy, philosophy, psychology and cognitive psychology articles are often long reads. Wouldn’t it be a bliss being able to comprehend the meaning of stoicism from a concise meme or GIF? And comics on essential psychotherapy concepts. A startup or a social media campaign like this can make psychotherapy much more easy to handle and widely accessible.

6. A 3D printing and paper engineering startup for customized popup books

Making a popup book requires a lot of hands – planning illustrations, visuals on the page, characters and elements spread into the page, deciding which parts we want to move first and how and a great deal of storyboarding with mockups. And once the mockup is ready, printing is begins, arrayed with digital presses where personalisation is possible. Often it requires workforce to assemble paper parts in bulk orders. Now imagine there’s a startup which can take orders for your life story and convert it to a storyboard. Such a great gift to give to your loved ones! Also, popup books for world leaders can be made and exhibited in school fairs. Pop-up book applications are be immense. It indeed is a amazing idea to barge in for business.

7. AeroMorph MIT’s self-folding origami technology for folding cars.

MIT, inspired by Origami techniques came up with self-folding robot called – AeroMorph. Now imagine if this is applied to cars to make cars foldable anytime anywhere, parking spaces will not exist. Instead that space can be utilized for tree plantation. Sebastian thrun with his company kitty hawk and udacity is already pumped up to produce flying cars. But with this foldable origami technology, who knows that after a century we'd see foldable cars, ships, space shuttles and everything which requires massive space. This can prove to be a marvellous technology if humans fail to regulate population.

8. TV series wardrobe

It will be the Etsy which detects fashion designers and dresses on a particular TV series character. This tech will be for the people who are tired of taking screenshots of their favourite clothing worn by a particular TV actor and then surfing google and fashion blogs for the same. It is high time that a portal like this exists. Would it not be awesome to know which designers clothing is your actor wearing, just with a plugin? One can derive names of designers without trailblazing all the way through post credits and surfing Google. Dear, data scientists and machine learning engineers, it is time to utilize and channelize the data of this sort!

9. Udacity Nanodegree version for Masterclass.

Masterclass is authentic by the quality delivery, but wouldn’t it be awesome if it were more extensive in nature? A three or six month nanodegree for copywriting, film making, writing for TV, etc. aided with 1:1 mentorship and hiring opportunities.

10. Repository of screenshots for company campaigns

Now company campaigns with creative videos and graphics come and go. For a design engineering student, a full stack marketer or management students, they need to traverse and surf a lot of case studies of companies which created successful and creative campaigns. Now, here in this case pinterest board pinning and pocket app feature will be tedious for user experience as users need to pin or tag/bookmark their favourite campaigns. Also added description will be hard to read.

The reason why screenshots will be effective storage mechanism is: that whenever one sees a creative video Ad, display Ad, or a strategy used in a particular Ad which fascinates the user, the user can just screenshot that part and add texts on the screenshot with the company name as tag. With this a typical dashboard will have company names as folders and inside them the screenshots from users of the best marketing campaigns led by their company.

This can hugely help brand strategists study the marketing flow of other brands. With this application, badge mechanisms like quora, stack overflow and product hunt will be an added advantage. It can work like Pinterest + Pocket. Pocket has a lucid UX. At times defining tags for every Ad link becomes tedious. It would be too good on UI part for Pocket if boards and secret boards for Ad links are introduced just like pinterest. Accessing brand stories will be way too faster then.

11. Conversion of text diaries into comic novels via comic bot

There are a lot of application startups existing which converts text to comic illustration. Some of those bots are hugely used over facebook chats. But would it not be awesome if all of the text in a diary get converted into graphic novel itself? With this, turning copywriting to storyboarding will cost less time! Also to gift somebody their life story will be a blessing. With this kids can read their parents’ lives in form of comics. If powered by dazzling UI, UX and affordable pricing, this can be the next big thing!

12. Tone analysers for advertisements

Now there already are existing AI applications which takes any text – whether it be an email, text messages, tweet or an article and analyses the tone of the author as the output. So with this, wouldn’t it be soothing to have such scanner for video advertising and display ads? Cz with digital marketing taking over the web a lot of possibilities rise misinterpretations like – an Ad maybe valid in nature and intention, but a user won’t click it due to innate scepticism and on other hand, an Ad maybe very inappropriate or a clickbait which does not deserve getting clicked. We sure have Ad blockers for display advertisements, but what about the sentiment and tone analysis of a video advertisement? Why not give digital advertising a chance? It can end up in our favour hugely, if we just click the right Ad!

13. An online portal (Enhanced version of LinkedIn) for writers, videographers and video editors who are aspiring to be YouTubers.

There are tons of writers and aspiring artists who have the script or product along with the character casting ready, but all they need is a photographer to shoot it well and a video editor with adobe premiere pro cc and aftereffects ninja skills. A generic quotation which videographers and video editors take to prepare a 5 minute video ranges from INR 15,000 to INR 30,000. And for an artist to have a YouTube channel, he/she must have atleast 10 videos for a potential start. And thereby paying such amount for 10 videos will cost a fortune to the aspiring YouTuber. Also hearing such quotations, some aspiring YouTubers often start learning video editing skills themselves. This results ofcourse in good quality, but the production quantity depletes as you need to take care of all the aspects – from writing to editing. Thus, this is the time when you urges a team to have a full-fledged YouTube channel.

Thereby, what this portal will do is: connect writers, videographers and video editors with each other. Also there are times when video makers and video productions have all camera equipment’s ready to shoot, but all they urge is a phenomenal writer, a Netflix level screenplay. So, this portal can be a hub where writers, artists, videographers and video editors can provide their portfolio initially and swipe right (this can be the tinder for YouTube ventures) the fellow professional whom he/she wants to join with. Later if all four professionals swipe right in affirmation to each other – it means they are ready to go as a YouTube team. This portal will solve the hassle of approaching to writers, video editors, etc. to join in your YouTube venture. Instead, if they really are intrigued and interested in your pitch deck and portfolio, you are easy to work with them as a team. Happy YouTubing!

We hope you cherished these ideas and it is our wish and blessing that you barge in to implement some of these. Have an idea more hilarious than these mentioned above? Write in the comments! Who knows an investor might read those and fund you here itself.