Heres mine:<p>My proposed business is a centralized website similar to Kickstarter that does the financing for new music albums. With the spread of streaming services, many artists are now making an insufficient amount of money through record sales.<p>Bands would list the albums they could potentially release (ie their next album, a live album, b sides etc) on a website where once the band has reached their asking price, they will start working on/or release that album. The price listed is not how much the album costs the band to make, but the amount of money that it would take the band to feel sufficiently incentivized to make/release the album. Once the album reaches this point, the band would release the album for free online.<p>This creates two new streams of revenue - fans who really love an artist (or have lots of money) can contribute proportionally. Additionally, cheap fans that otherwise wouldn't pay for the album would be incentivized to with the hope that the album comes out sooner, or out of fear that it won't be released at all.<p>You can read more details here: <a href="http://danfrank.ca/startup-ideas/" rel="nofollow">http://danfrank.ca/startup-ideas/</a>
I had an idea for an indoor mapping app. Basically Google Maps for inside multi-unit buildings like hotels, apartments, office buildings, malls, etc. Existing maps and navigation can get you to the street address, but there is no easy way to find building 3 or suite 240. I built a prototype Android app for data collection (I used WiFi hotspots as reference points to tag the location of landmarks inside). The big question is how to monetize something like that. You could maybe license the data to delivery companies but I'm not sure how big that market would be.
A CRM solution for small businesses delivered as a facebook chatbot - these businesses have customers who "live" on fb, and in many cases have no web-presence other than a fb page. Such a system would not require them to install/maintain any additional apps, and in theory they would be saved a lot of manual data entry by leveraging your fb page's existing graph connections.<p>However, I'm not sure it would work within the confines of the current facebook graphi api restrictions though, they really seem to lock down getting data out. They seem to want you to build chatbots for facebook without using facebook data, which seems pointless, and in all likelihood a bad user experience.