Problems (ideas) I am excited about

I try and view startup ideas as problems first. Here are 7 of them that I have been discovering.

Jun 01, 2025

Here are seven ideas that keep me up at night. Not an exhaustive list. Just the ones burning in my brain right now.

I'll explain each one. Clear and simple.

Your feedback matters. Tell me what you love. Tell me what you hate. Just skip the cynicism - you know, that famous Dropbox comment on Hacker News where someone said it was just FTP for morons.

Help me in two ways. First, tell me which ideas grab you and which ones don't. Second, tell me if you actually have these problems.

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The List:

A new commercial search engine
1Password for memory (AI memory portability)
An AI wealth manager for people about to get rich
Simulations
A gambling GPT
ChatGPT but social
An AI security guard

1. A New Commercial Search Engine

Picture this scenario. You're fundraising. You know exactly what to build. Now you need VCs. But not just any VCs - you want ones who invested in consumer social travel apps that went viral.

So you search: "VCs who invested in consumer social AI traveling apps that went viral."

What do you get?

SEO garbage. Some Zapier listicle titled "Top 10 Consumer AI Apps in 2025." Number one is ChatGPT. Obviously.

Here's another example. You want "all Lady Gaga songs about revenge." Google gives you "Bad Romance" and stops there. Nothing else.

This breaks my heart. And gets me excited.

Google trained us not to search for nuanced things. Why? Because early users tried sophisticated queries and got nothing useful back. So we learned to dumb down our searches.

Before you say - yes ChatGPT makes this experience better. However its search results are still based on Bing.

Garbage in garbage out.

When I was running Godmode, I saw this daily. People settling for simple searches when they needed complex answers.

I am working on this.

2. 1Password for Memory (AI Memory Portability)

Your ChatGPT conversations vanish when you switch to Claude. Your Claude chats disappear when you try Gemini. As a user, I should own my AI memory. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Me.

This goes beyond the big models. Think about all those B2B AI tools you use daily. Each one starts from zero. Each one needs to learn your preferences again.

My screen time already shows what websites I like. What writing style I prefer. What marketing language works on me. ChatGPT captures some of this, but I use Claude and Gemini more than OpenAI.

Result? Mediocre outputs. Wasted time teaching each model my preferences from scratch.

3. An AI Wealth Manager for People About to Get Rich

Have you ever been approached by a wealth manager? I haven't.

Then I learned something wild. The average wealth manager is 49 years old. They're stuck in a reality that doesn't exist anymore. Today's reality involves WhatsApp over email, 24/7 availability, and the Robinhood generation that actually understands finance.

I reached out to 100 wealth managers. Three responded. Two laughed at me because I'm not "stupid rich" yet. The third one offered me one hour per month of his time.

This sucks.

Is it important? Let me put it like this: Morgan Stanley made $7.3 Bn last quarter only on wealth management.

4. Simulations

Movies bomb. Marketing campaigns flop. Pickup lines fall flat. You never know how things will turn out until they do.

That might be fine for most people. But what if you had a dataset? What if similar approaches had been backtested? What if you could see that your pickup line had a 12% success rate versus the 47% success rate of something else?

That Asian girl might not have ghosted you.

This is possible now.

5. A Gambling GPT

Betting decisions could be informed by more context than any human can process. Most bets are emotional. This leads to decisions based on feelings rather than facts.

The real problem? I have a gambling addiction and I'm probably overthinking this whole thing.

Damn.

6. ChatGPT But Social

Yeah, yeah. It's not defensible. It's just a wrapper. Blah blah blah.

But here's the real problem. You see a video, image, or song online. More than ever, someone just like you created it. The creator economy is booming. AI makes this even easier.

When I see that perfect video, I save it. I bookmark it. Then I spend 5-6 hours trying to recreate it for my company or personal projects. I usually fail.

This becomes a massive hassle.

There are 100 video generation models and 1,000 image generation tools. Nobody shares their prompts. Nobody remembers what they used.

What if ChatGPT was social? Every conversation, every video, every output shows up in a feed. You could see what your colleagues are creating. You could follow that designer you admire and watch their generation process.

Now that's fire.

7. An AI Security Guard

I work at WeWork. I haven't missed a single day in 90 days. Weekends included.

When I arrive, the security guard and I exchange an awkward "Hi." When I leave, I glance over. The guy's asleep.

I'm not trying to shame him. But think about it. Regular apartments don't have security guards. They have cameras. But those cameras only help catch the killer. They don't prevent the killing.

This could be different.