36 ideas
Your own Uber
A ride-hailing app: rider requests a ride from a map, driver app accepts nearby jobs, live driver location on the map and more.
Big buildYour own Airbnb
A short-term rental marketplace: hosts list a place with photos and a calendar, guests search by location and dates, booking requests and confirmations and more.
Big buildYour own Shopify
An online store builder: product catalogue with variants, storefront with cart and checkout, orders dashboard and more.
1–2 weeksYour own DoorDash
A food delivery marketplace: restaurants with menus, cart and checkout, order tracking for customers and more.
Big buildYour own Uber Eats
A food ordering and delivery app: browse nearby restaurants, menus with options and extras, checkout with tips and more.
Big buildYour own Etsy
A marketplace for handmade goods: seller shops with listings, search and categories, cart across multiple shops and more.
Big buildYour own eBay
An auction and resale marketplace: listings with photos, timed auctions with bidding, buy it now and more.
Big buildYour own Upwork
A freelance marketplace: clients post jobs, freelancers send proposals, messaging and more.
Big buildYour own Fiverr
A marketplace for fixed-price services: sellers create gigs with packages, buyers order and pay, order page for delivery and revisions and more.
Big buildYour own Zillow
A property search site: map and list of homes, filters by price, beds and area, listing pages with photos and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Amazon
An everything store: catalogue with search and filters, product pages with reviews, cart and checkout and more.
Big buildYour own Temu
A discount shopping app: deal-heavy home feed, flash sales with countdowns, gamified coupons and more.
Big buildYour own Walmart
A retail store app: product search and aisles, cart with pickup or delivery, weekly deals and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Rover
A pet sitting and dog walking marketplace: sitter profiles with services and rates, search by location and dates, booking requests and more.
1–2 weeksYour own TaskRabbit
A marketplace for local odd jobs: post a task or browse taskers, tasker profiles by skill, booking and messaging and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Instacart
Grocery delivery from local stores: pick a store and browse items, cart and delivery slot, shopper app with picking list and more.
Big buildYour own Vinted
A second-hand clothes marketplace: list items with photos, size and brand, browse and filter, offers and messaging and more.
1–2 weeksYour own WooCommerce
An open-source e-commerce plugin: products and variants, cart and checkout, shipping and tax settings and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Printful
Print-on-demand fulfilment: product mockup generator, upload designs, sync products to stores and more.
1–2 weeksYour own ShipStation
Shipping software for online stores: import orders, compare carrier rates, print labels and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Faire
A wholesale marketplace for independent shops: brand storefronts, wholesale pricing, retailer accounts and more.
Big buildYour own Thumbtack
A marketplace to hire local pros: customers post a job, pros get leads, quotes and messaging and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Angi
A home services marketplace: search pros by service, request quotes, reviews and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Lyft
A ride-hailing app: request rides, driver matching, live map and more.
Big buildYour own Depop
A social resale marketplace for fashion: shop profiles, listings with photos, explore feed and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Craigslist
Local classified ads: post ads by category, browse by city, anonymous email relay and more.
WeekendYour own Facebook Marketplace
Local buying and selling: list an item, browse nearby, message the seller and more.
WeekendYour own Turo
A peer-to-peer car rental marketplace: list a car, search by dates and place, book and pay and more.
Big buildYour own Blinkit
Ten-minute grocery delivery: catalogue by dark store, fast checkout, rider assignment and more.
Big buildYour own Zomato
Restaurant discovery and food delivery: restaurant listings, menus, delivery orders and more.
Big buildYour own Swiggy
Food and grocery delivery: restaurants and stores, cart, live tracking and more.
Big buildYour own Grab
A super app for rides, food and payments: rides, food, wallet and more.
Big buildYour own Too Good To Go
A marketplace for surplus food: shops list surprise bags, map of nearby bags, reserve and pay and more.
1–2 weeksYour own StockX
A resale market for sneakers and collectibles: bid and ask order book, price history charts, authentication step and more.
Big buildYour own OfferUp
Local buying and selling: listings, offers, chat and more.
WeekendYour own Zara
A fashion brand store: lookbook-style catalogue, size and colour variants, cart and checkout and more.
1–2 weeks
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.
Scheduling, appointments, reservations and point of sale for local businesses: some of the easiest software to sell.
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.