
Business Brainstorms
By Jakob Greenfeld
Trends and realistic business ideas for indie hackers, solopreneurs, and serial makers.
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Brainstorming opportunities in the WordPress ecosystem with Iain Poulson
Business Brainstorms • By Jakob Greenfeld • Mar 17, 2021
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Flipping Wordpress and Shopify plugins for fun and profit with Vikas Singhal
Vikas' Twitter profile
Vika's business
31:37
March 24, 2022

Brainstorming remote work opportunities with Sagiv Ofek
This episode is brought to you by Founder Flywheel.
Sagiv's website
Sagiv's Twitter profile
Sagiv's summary of our conversation
51:49
March 10, 2022

Brainstorming SaaS ideas with Tom Zaragoza
Tom's Twitter account
Tom's website
37:58
February 10, 2022

Unbundling Fiverr and winning the Great Online Game with John Bardos
John's Twitter account
John's newsletter
59:30
February 04, 2022

Brainstorming Business Ideas with David Kofoed Wind: Figma for X, Capterra automations, and travel adventures
David's Twitter account
David's company Eduflow
58:22
January 20, 2022

Brainstorming Business Ideas with Andrew Lynch: The opposite of the metaverse, living in nature with friends, Zero to Wine, and Primal Weekends
Andrew's Twitter account
Andrew's website
Andrew's thread on the opposite of the metaverse.
44:29
January 13, 2022

Abandoned Assets, "be ready when they slip", and finance tracking with Tom Dekan
Tom's Twitter profile
Tom's website
Tom's newsletter
Tom's SaaS Redstone HR
01:01:02
January 11, 2022

Better outsourcing and professional matchmaking ideas with Tom Dekan
Tom's Twitter profile
Tom's website
Tom's newsletter
Tom's SaaS Redstone HR
52:21
January 07, 2022

Brainstorming indie maker ideas with Xavier Coiffard (job boards, form builders, ...)
Xavier's Twitter account.
Xavier's community.
Xavier's info product.
01:01:57
December 10, 2021

Brainstorming Data Products, Jungle Scout for X, and Airtable Alternatives with Jordan Hansen
Jordan's Twitter
Jordan's agency Cobalt Intelligence
01:15:14
December 01, 2021

🤖 Brainstorming GPT-3 Business Ideas with Harish Garg
Harish is a GPT-3 consultant, founder of MynaOne, and author of the "Definite Guide to building products with OpenAI".
01:15:56
July 09, 2021

Mining idea gold on the Shopify App store with Daniel Sim
Get access to Daniel's private Shopify app store database here.
You can connect with Daniel on Twitter.
Daniel's website
He's currently running App Store Analytics ('Google Search Console for Shopify apps').
53:14
June 01, 2021

Brainstorming Shopify for SaaS with Travis Fischer
This podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so.
Right now Travis is building Senpai, an asynchronous video platform that allows creators to monetize their expertise.
Travis is pretty active on Twitter and you should also check out his amazing blog where he's sharing all the lessons from his ventures.
01:14:08
May 25, 2021

Unearthing Opportunities with Alejandro Navia (Psilocybin, Microdosing, and Transformation)
Alejandro's personal website
Alejandro's Twitter profile
01:00:23
May 17, 2021

Opportunities in real estate with Peter Fabor
This podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so.
Summary of the episode.
Peter's website.
Peter's Twitter account.
Peter's thread on travel niches are growing like crazy.
01:05:22
April 15, 2021

Unearthing Opportunities with Matt Klein
This podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so.
Matt's Twitter Account,
Matt's Newsletter
55:27
April 07, 2021

Brainstorming opportunities in the WordPress ecosystem with Iain Poulson
This podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so.
Resources mentioned in the episode:
Iain's website
Iain's Twitter account
Plugin Rank (Iain's SaaS tool for plugin creators)
Integrate (Iain's WordPress-Instagram plugin)
WP Trends (Iain's Newsletter)
WP User Manager (the plugin Iain acquired)
WPContent.io (Iain's WordPress community)
WP Rocket (the premium caching plugin that succeeded despite strong competition)
Freemius (service that makes it simple to sell WordPress plugin subscriptions)
01:01:07
March 17, 2021

Unearthing Opportunities with Keevin O'Rourke (Part II)
Keevin's Twitter account
Keevin's Newsletter Brainstorms.io
It's Under the Radar Newsletter by Rob Sullivan
46:32
February 15, 2021

Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kim (Part II)
Andrew's Twitter profile.
Andrew's idea list
3. Design Assessment Platform (enterprise Coderbyte but for UX/UI Designers)
4. Speed Runs of Non-Games (GamesDoneQuick but for other digital activities)
1. Homeschooling Extracurricular activities (have homeschooled kids socialize more)
5. Piggyback Distribution. Micro influencer marketing. (get slack/discord/subreddit active community members to 'hunt' your product)
2. Be my guest. Play at exclusive member only places (primarily golf clubs to begin)
Summary
Jakob and Andrew discuss the idea for design assessment platform, like CoderByte, but for UX/UI designers (1:28)
Jakob and Andrew moves on to the next idea – speed runs of non-games (12:04)
Jakob and Andrew discuss plans on how to monetize the project / idea (20:09)
Jakob and Andrew move on to homeschooling extra-curricular activities (22:28)
Jakob and Andrew discusses the next idea – micro influencer marketing (32:17)
Jakob asks what the missing link is in the current ecosystem (34:50)
Jakob and Andrew discusses their experiences in private / public communities (36:17)
Jakob mentions that there's room for improvement for communities in general (44:41)
Jakob and Andrew talk about their experience using Circle (46:46)
Jakob and Andrew then move to the last idea: find a way to play at exclusive member only places like golf clubs (49:53)
Andrew tells what originally prompted this idea (52:57)
Jakob mentions how the two last ideas are connected (55:25)
Andrew decides what idea he want to execute (57:13)
58:27
February 02, 2021

Unearthing Opportunities with Keevin O'Rourke
Keevin's Twitter account
Keevin's Newsletter Brainstorms.io
Sidemail.com
50:32
January 25, 2021

Unearthing Opportunities with Max Mirho
Jakob explains how and why he reached out to Max (01:20)
Max describes and enumerates what they do on a live show and in business (02:13)
Jakob and Max discusses more about the latter’s business model and its sustainability (04:51)
Max talks about the tools he uses as his primary sponsorship source and eventually scaling it up (05:04)
Max tells Jakob the story behind his unnamed agency (07:12)
Max mentions how he discovered that speaking at universities, especially private schools, are profitable (11:50)
Max talks about how and why he got into the LinkedIn platform (17:27)
Max discuss about the project’s focus being on the tech side (20:26)
Jakob talks about product ideation (22:12)
Max says that a lot of stuff they build is more product focused and that he plans to build these into real scalable things (23:38)
Max mentions Superstack and explains how he wants to build it (29:48)
Jakob talks about his project that collects Substack data and Max expresses his interested (32:40)
Max tells more about his plan to launch an online course about LinkedIn automations, SEO, building websites, etc. (34:56)
Jakob and Max talk about the benefits of using Twitter (40:35)
36:47
January 19, 2021

Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kim
Andrew's Twitter profile.
Andrew's ideas:
1. Productize my ProductHunt profile as a "Good Luck Charm" because I have the lucky of being user #777777
2. Negotiation Practice or interviewing.io for negotiations (not just salary)
3. Start with a "Why So Expensive" product, and build something around that
4. Collabs GAN (Generative Adversarial Network)
5. Dynamic Price Widget
01:12:32
January 16, 2021

Unearthing Opportunities with Luke Cannon
Luke's Twitter Profile
Luke's Newsletter
David Perell Bot
Birdy Bots
Hypefury
Colony.io
Urbit
APIs all the way down
38:48
January 14, 2021

Unearthing Opportunities with Aswin John
Aswin's website Learn then Apply
Aswin's Twitter profile.
01:15:34
January 13, 2021

Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kamphey
Andrew's Twitter profile
Resources we talked about:
List of 100 business ideas by Andrew
7 Newsletter Product Ideas for Indie Hackers by Andrew
9 Podcast Product Ideas for Indie Hackers by Andrew
Better Sheets
Twitter templates by Andrew
A tool I built based on the ideation framework shared by Andrew
01:23:12
January 06, 2021

Unearthing Opportunities with Menajem Benchimol
Resources we talked about
Product Byte
Trends.co
Trends.vc
Keevin O'Rouke's profile and Product Byte updates on Indiehackers
Software Ideas by Kevin Conti
Rappi app
45:08
December 18, 2020

Unearthing Opportunities with Brian Burrous
Resources we talked about:
Capiche.FM
My First Million podcast
Agency Course
How I built this podcast
Dickie Bush's Ship 30 for 30 challenge
David Perell's Write of Passage Course
https://twitter.com/brandonthezhang
(his first essay was indeed shared by David Perell)
The Day You Became A Better Writer by Scott Adams
Writing Guide by Julian Shapiro
Fast, Slow
Notes by Andy Matuschak
The Krystal Theme for Tiddly Wiki
46:09
December 17, 2020

Unearthing Opportunities with Daniel K. Hunter
We talk about:
Launching on Product Hunt
Deals for indie makers
why private communities don't really solve the problems that public communities have.
Painpoints.io
Indie Hackers
Trends.vc
IndieDrops.com
Product Explorer
Gum Spy
IndieThinkers.org
Nesslabs
https://jakobgreenfeld.com/gut
Trends.co
Kaggle
Peter Askew
RanchWork.com
https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/
55:22
December 08, 2020