The biggest opportunities right now:
1. build for solving loneliness (the more AI floods everything, the more people crave real human connection, IRL and small social)
2. build for agents that need to spend money (they're getting virtual cards and budgets, someone builds the spend controls, fraud protection, receipts)
3. build for people drowning in AI output (everyone generates infinite drafts now, the bottleneck moved to reviewing and choosing, build the judgment layer)
4. build for the burnout economy (everyone is expected to always be on and always optimizing, and the backlash toward rest, slowness, and enough is building)
5. build for verifying humans (deepfakes broke trust, every dating app, marketplace, and video call needs proof-of-human within 2 years)
6. build for the physical world (the trades, hardware, robots that AI is finally reaching)
7. build for the agent that answers the phone (every local business misses calls after 5pm, a voice agent that books the job is worth thousands a month)
8. build for the aging (70M+ boomers who want to stay healthy, sharp, and connected)
9. build for the LLM-search land grab (being the cited answer is the new SEO)
10. build for the newly automated (the paralegal, the analyst, the marketer whose job just changed and needs to reskill fast)
11. build for the seat-pricing collapse (software repricing from $50/seat to per-outcome, whoever nails outcome billing wins a category)
12. build for AI enablement (95% of businesses use nothing beyond ChatGPT, someone has to onboard the other 95%)
13. build for the agency everyone resents (businesses pay $1k/mo to agencies they hate, an agent that does 80% of it undercuts the model)
14. build for verticals on 2011 software (dentists, HOAs, contractors, all overdue for an AI-native rebuild)
15. build for reviving dead software (thousands of abandoned apps with real users, agents can maintain what a team couldn't, buy and revive)
16. build for markets too small to matter before (500 lobster fishermen was never worth a team, now it's a weekend and a real business)
17. build for agents hiring agents (a shadow economy is forming, it needs escrow, reputation, and dispute resolution for machines)
18. build for the anti-AI premium (as everything gets generated, human-made and analog become status symbols people pay up for)
19. build for distribution-first (anyone can build the product now, so the audience is the moat, media company first, product second)
20. build for the reinvention of college (what does an MBA even mean anymore)
21. build for a world with more free time than it knows what to do with (if AI takes the busywork, the question becomes what people do with the hours, and that's a civilization sized market)
note: more trends/ideas @ideabrowser (free to sign up)
22. build for the return to the physical (screens fill with slop, people crave the real world, the hands-on, the local, the analog)
23. build for the caregiving wave. The population is aging fast, tens of millions are caring for parents, and the whole burden is landing on families with no support.
24. build for the longevity shift (people want to live to 100 healthy, and a whole industry is forming around actively managing your own biology)
25. build for the housing and rootlessness problem (people can't afford to settle down, and the whole idea of a stable home base is up for grabs)
26. build for spiritual hunger (as institutions hollow out, the need for meaning, ritual, and belonging is exploding into new forms)
KEEP BUILDING
BREAKING: Israeli settler terrorists are attacking the village of Al-Naqoura in the West Bank, setting fields on fire and attacking homes.
Residents fear that the attacks could escalate into a pogrom.
Everyone needs to see this. Hundreds of Israeli settlers are coming down from hilltops and setting entire Palestinian villages on fire. Full on pogroms.
POGROMS
against defenseless civilians
all over the West Bank (while Gaza is under fire).
Israeli civilians and army joining forces.
It is not just Nethanyahu and few "rotten apples".
THIS IS ISRAEL
ARMS EMBARGO NOW - STOP TRADE NOW
This is what intl law requires.
🔵 Snakes and rodents add to suffering inside Gaza’s displacement camps
Footage shared by Palestinian journalists Mustafa Khabeisa and Sakher Ashraf shows snakes and rodents entering tents and crawling among families’ belongings as extreme summer heat compounds already unbearable conditions.
Despite a nominal ceasefire, Palestinians are being forced to survive without basic protection as Israel systematically blocks reconstruction materials and shelter supplies. Israel has conditioned essential aid and rebuilding on Palestinian resistance groups disarming, violating the written agreement, which guaranteed shelter and aid during Phase 1. Hamas already completed all its obligations under that phase.
“The war is continuing,” Ashraf wrote on Instagram. See links to both journalists in reply.
One of funnier moments from Speed's World Cup run.
Two people ask for a selfie at Spain vs. France. He thinks randos. It's Ana Botín (Exec Chair of Banco Santander) and Juan Rigo (head of Mercadona, Spain's largest grocery chain).
Botín says "he's the Walmart of Spain and I'm the JPMorgan of Europe."
She pitches him to open a checking account at her US brand OpenBank with a juicy 4% deposit interest ("OpenBank like OpenAI").
Two billionaires and some of the "most important people in Europe" but Speed "has more followers" lol