9 ideas
Your own Spotify
A music streaming app: library of tracks and albums, player with queue, shuffle and repeat, playlists you can create and share and more.
1–2 weeksYour own YouTube
A video sharing platform: upload videos with a title and thumbnail, watch page with comments, channels with subscribe and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Netflix
A video streaming service: rows of titles by genre, title page with trailer and episodes, player that remembers where you stopped and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Twitch
A live streaming platform: go live from OBS with a stream key, live player with chat, follow and notifications and more.
Big buildYour own Shazam
A song recognition app: listen and identify a song, track page with artist and links, history of found songs and more.
1–2 weeksYour own IMDb
A film and TV database: title pages with cast, people pages, ratings and more.
WeekendYour own SoundCloud
An audio sharing platform for artists: upload tracks, waveform player with timed comments, follow artists and more.
1–2 weeksYour own ESPN
Sports scores and news: live scores, team pages, standings and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Audible
An audiobook store and player: catalogue, player with speed and sleep timer, bookmarks 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.
Two-sided marketplaces and online stores, from a niche Etsy to a local Airbnb, with payments through Stripe Connect.
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.
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.