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I hear a lot of people with new startup ideas, and although it is great to hear them – I start hearing the same one’s over and over again.

Find people around you app – Nobody wants to find people around them and meet them. Trust me. It’s weird, and it’s been done. I don’t know why people think that this is a need.

Coupon / Daily deals – If you are coming up with this idea now, trust me when I say millions of people have the same idea and are executing on them. It’s a saturated market, do something else with your time.

Online Dating Sites. Unless you are building a hack on top of an existing dating site, it’s next to impossible to jump into the dating market.

Book Exchanges for colleges – We have craiglist for a reason, and it works very well. Yes, I know books are expensive and people aren’t getting their money back but it will always be an issue. A book exchange site is not going to solve that problem. It’s saturated, so please avoid it.

Apps that create Apps – This might be the techie in me talking, but for some reason I can’t stand these types of solutions. yes, they are good for non techies, but i’m not sure how much value they are creating in the end.




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