18 ideas
Your own Calendly
A meeting scheduling tool: set weekly availability, shareable booking page per event type, time zone aware slots and more.
WeekendYour own Yelp
A local business review site: business listings with hours and photos, star reviews, search by category and area and more.
WeekendYour own OpenTable
A restaurant table booking service: restaurant pages with available times, book a table for a party size, confirmation and reminders and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Acuity Scheduling
Appointment booking for service businesses: services with durations and prices, staff calendars, client booking page and more.
WeekendYour own Mindbody
Booking software for gyms and studios: class schedule, book and cancel classes, memberships and class packs and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Square
Point of sale for small businesses: item catalogue, checkout screen for a tablet, card payments and more.
Big buildYour own Toast
A restaurant point of sale: menu and modifiers, order entry on a tablet, kitchen display and more.
Big buildYour own Jobber
Field service software for home services: quotes, jobs and scheduling, dispatch to crews and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Housecall Pro
Software for plumbers, electricians and cleaners: online booking, dispatch board, job checklists and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Clover
A point of sale system: inventory, checkout, card payments and more.
Big buildYour own Lightspeed
A point of sale for retail and restaurants: inventory with variants, purchase orders, checkout and more.
Big buildYour own ServiceTitan
Software for trades businesses: call booking, dispatch, technician app and more.
Big buildYour own Vagaro
Booking for salons and spas: online booking, staff calendars, client profiles and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Booksy
Booking for barbers and beauty pros: business profile with services, book and reschedule, reminders by SMS and more.
WeekendYour own Fresha
A salon booking marketplace: marketplace search, business calendar, online booking and more.
1–2 weeksYour own GlossGenius
Booking and payments for beauty businesses: branded booking site, calendar, payments and more.
WeekendYour own Starbucks
An order-ahead and loyalty app: menu with customisations, order ahead for pickup, rewards stars and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Playtomic
Court booking for padel and tennis: find courts nearby, book a slot, open matches to join and more.
Weekend
More things to build
Upscalers, background removers, converters and generators. Image tools pull huge search volume and most of the work can run in the browser.
Compressors, croppers, GIF makers, subtitle generators and intro makers that people search for every month.
Voice generators, transcription, trimmers and noise removal. Pair a simple editor with a speech API and you have a product.
Hashtag, caption, title and bio generators, plus schedulers and thread tools. Small AI tools with steady search demand from creators.
Checkers, validators and generators for site owners: sitemaps, robots.txt, meta tags, SSL, speed and broken links.
Resume builders, AI writers and other everyday tools that people search for by name.
Profit, tax, churn, ROI and creator rate calculators. The easiest wins on this page: no backend, one formula, and searchers who are ready to act.
Your own take on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Midjourney, Otter and more, each with a prompt that wires up the API calls for you.
Feeds, follows, stories and communities: prompts for your own Instagram, Reddit, Threads or Letterboxd for a niche.
Chat, email and calls, from a Slack for your community to a Discord-style server app.
Swipe stacks, matches and chat for a niche dating app, with safety features built in from the start.
To-do lists, notes, wikis, kanban boards and project trackers. Most are a weekend to a week with Claude Code.
Form builders, help desks, e-signature, website builders and design tools. Plenty of people pay for each of these every month.
CRMs, email marketing, social schedulers and lead tools: the software that businesses pay per seat for.
Budgeting, invoicing, expense tracking, trading journals and more. Where money moves, the prompts point you to a licensed provider.
Job boards, applicant tracking, shift scheduling and HR records for small teams.
Two-sided marketplaces and online stores, from a niche Etsy to a local Airbnb, with payments through Stripe Connect.
Workout logs, calorie counters, meditation and running plans. Many are a weekend build with a clear audience.
Flashcards, quizzes, courses and homework help, with Claude generating the lesson content.
Streaming, players, live video and media databases, with a video or audio API doing the heavy lifting.
Link-in-bio pages, newsletters, digital product stores, memberships and video editors for creators.
Maps, trail finders, flight trackers and booking tools built on open map data and travel APIs.
Scanners, file storage, password managers, blockers and other everyday tools.
Original browser games in the genres of the classics: puzzle, arcade, platformer, runner and party games. Your own name, art and levels, with familiar mechanics.
Give Claude more to work with while it builds: skills, MCP servers and subagents. Once it ships, use the overnight prompts to find users for it.