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Ask HN: Which niche online businesses would you love to own?
I'm looking for inspiration:
Have you had your eye on a small website or piece of software delivered online, delivered seamlessly online (e.g. no sales team or implementation) that is just a great business but it's so good the owner won't sell?
My example is BuiltWith.
What is yours?
- greentext 2y agoMaybe something low effort and ironic like you'd find on a web ring, but even less effort.
- rasmus1610 2y agohttps://diskprices.com/ https://diskprices.com/
- markus_zhang 2y agoSome online obituary websites that people with the right credential can join a "group" setup by the family and share thoughts and even photos. Privacy could be the worst enemy, though.
- bhag2066 2y agoGreat one! Internet native, simple web page, low cost and clear value transfer between the company and the customer. Edit: to make the comment more useful
- rrwright 2y agoThis question sounds like it was asked by a private equity investor looking to sample the tech zeitgeist before buying up and destroying some beloved tool.
- yen223 2y agoI like email marketing companies, please don't buy them up and destroy them
- bhag2066 2y agoNah, the point is these businesses are so good the owner would never sell. So there's nothing to buy. It's more for inspiration, like, what does a good, neat, fun, useful, little internet business look like?
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- alexei_rudak 2y agoI would love to have my own service and technology to localise videos by using AI. All startups in that niche are growing so fast.
- bhag2066 2y agoLooks like you are living your dream :) Best of luck with it!
- alexei_rudak 2y agoThanks! But I'm still not in my dream, may be next year will be able to create technology that can do that with desired level of quality ))
- shivc 2y agoSimple micro apps I guess which serve a very specific but important pain point IMHO. Todoist is a a good example, so is an app called Focus To-Do (the one with orange logo)
- keiferski 2y ago> I Sell Onions on the Internet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
- shanecleveland 2y agohttps://750words.com https://750words.com or https://builtwith.com https://builtwith.com
- bhag2066 2y agoI've admired 750 Words as an internet business from afar for a while now. Combo of Morning Pages being a time tested tool (with Tim Ferriss as a practitioner no less) and it being a perfect match for the internet and a small subscription (daily journaling with streaks) The webmaster has some interesting write-ups on Indie Hackers for people wanting to know more...