9 ideas
Your own WhatsApp
A messaging app: one-to-one and group chats, read receipts and typing indicators, photo and voice note messages and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Gmail
An email client: inbox with threads, labels and search, compose with rich text and attachments, archive, star and snooze and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Discord
A community chat app with servers and channels: servers with text channels, roles and permissions, threads and reactions and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Zoom
A video meetings app: create and join meetings by link, video grid with mute and camera toggles, screen sharing and more.
Big buildYour own Slack
A team chat app: workspaces with channels, threads, reactions and mentions, direct messages and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Telegram
A fast messaging app with channels and bots: chats and groups, broadcast channels, bots with commands and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Outlook
Email and calendar in one: unified inbox, focused and Other tabs, calendar and more.
1–2 weeksYour own Microsoft Teams
Team chat and meetings: teams and channels, chat, video meetings and more.
Big buildYour own Signal
An end-to-end encrypted messenger: encrypted one-to-one chats, groups, disappearing messages and more.
Big build
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.
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.
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.