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Startup Ideas - Physical

Consolidated Gig Marketplace

Consolidated marketplace for all services (Single platform for all delivery both for customers and delivery agents - gig workers)

  • Zomato + Swiggy - Food delivery
  • DTDC + Amazon + ecommerce - Parcel delivery
  • Uber + Ola - Transportation
  • Dunzo + Porter - Adhoc delivery

Dynamic pricing and price surge like in Uber/Ola

Personalized gym trainers with equipments at home

  • The only thing left for people to go out is going to gym
  • Or some good experience at home
    • Book candle light dinner experience at home
      • Where a good chef will cook a great food
      • Butlers will come to home with all equipment
      • Maybe restaurant on wheels
  • But why people don't want to go out or interact with other people
    • Because they don't like seeing poor people
    • They don't like seeing the city dirty
    • They are depressed

Dantewada - Coding coaching classes (laptop/mobile training)

  • Teach coding from freecodecamp using JavaScript
  • Give systems for them to study
  • Use Laptops and let guys issue laptop over night

Business plans

  • Food industry
  • Software industry (core expertise, easy)
  • Agriculture industry
  • Hoticulture industry (self servicing indoor plantations for home)
    • Greenery inside homes

Self maintaining green cover on top of buildings

  • But conflicts with solar roofs
  • How to stop surface run-off
  • Ground water recharge
  • Circular economy and circular water system for urban sprawled areas

Pizza slice vending machine

  • Why vending machine is not a hit in India?

Electrical / Electronics

  • A socket that does not need switch
  • Smart appliance for Indian cooking - Ex - DelishUp
    • smart connected appliance
    • pre-sets for cooking tasks
    • integrated weighing scale
  • Live TV on phones without internet

Mechanical

Vertical Parking system for cars+suv

Max height for 15 cars each slot of suv height for every car fit. Height will be checked at entrance with the in time. Total money calculation can be done by subtracting the out time with in time. The parking money can be hour wise or by car weight. Can be placed at every metro. A complex with 15 car capacity per building for 5 structures will contain 75 cars. In ground are of 5 car space. Excluding the area of infrastructure around it. All steal truss structure for easy addtion and removal. Modules will be constructed independently and can be just directly placed.

Using energy from surrounding.. glow lights... Led back for laptop

Iot switch

Perfect School

Get vegetables from farmer and make a distribution center.

Cars

  • side mirror sees behind if anything is coming to not let the user open the door accidentally
  • Fog cameras in car, they can see everything infront by cutting through the fog, using night-vision/other sensors like lidar/radar, etc

Zero Profit Store - direct Business to Customer without any hidden profits and margins

There are sweaters that can keep you warm, create a clothing that can keep you cool in warm weather integrate micro electronics for fans and some cooling liquid for transferring heat off your body

IoT enabled water tank monitoring system

  • Fully autonomous
  • Create its own energy
  • Shape like a ball that floats inside tank and measure the level of water using accelerometer
  • Send data using WiFi directly to cloud
  • All analytics done on cloud and user can see it's dashboard
  • Should be cheap

RFID Smart Meters

  • Users must scan and send the meter reading to the server, this removes the problem of having a personnel send to take the meter reading
  • Users can pay the used meter units using the same app or any other app
  • It must be tamper proof and locked from inside
  • Using ML any anomoly in meter reading will be cross checked on site

Small nuclear power plants for cities

  • No losses due to electrical transmission
  • No large scale investment
  • No large scale nuclear disaster
  • Smaller system can be stable

Reusable flex

Flex that can be reprinted again and again. Or no need to print, just put up a flex, add a device which prints it. No need to remove and install new flex

Civil Engineering

Better and Cheap Pervious Concrete

  • Pervious concrete, also known as porous concrete, water permeable concrete, or thirsty concrete, is a type of concrete that has a high void content that allows water or air to pass through.
  • Pervious concrete allows the passage of air and water, which can help preserve trees. It can also reduce stormwater runoff, which is a leading source of pollutants entering waterways.
  • Researchers have found that pervious concrete has less tensile and flexural strength than conventional concrete. That's why it is generally not used for concrete pavements for high traffic and heavy wheel loads.
  • Clogging

Traffic Management

Connected traffic lights with intelligent routing system

Computer vision traffic management, single pole in mid with high mast 4 side cameras, within same poles trafic lights. Traffic light will be controlled by the amount of cars in each lane.

Mobile As Laptop

  1. Only desktop, keyboard and mouse needed
  2. Can be used at test centers, people can directly bring their mobile devices and give papers
  3. Can be used at WeWork, where people just bring their mobile devices
  4. No need of laptops, no need to carry large devices
  5. Can be seemlessly switched between large (desktop) and small screens (mobile screen)
  6. Window continium

Windows that can remove use of blinders

Example - Air India airplane windows that can change the transparency of windows

Distributed Kitchens

D-Restra (Not owned by anyone, open source)

Anyone can run server locally and run restaurant.

People vote to create a restaurant in their locality.

Can also vote to add, delete items in menu.

Set menu, preferences, etc.

Drone selfies, get a drone to take a picture or photo shoot by app

Get personal photographers by app

Affordable tiffin service (p2p tiffin service)

Packaged Food

Why packaged food startups fail. - by Shashank Mehta

Restaurants

Restaurants have the highest mortality rate of any industry in the world. 60% restaurants shut in Year 1. 90%  shut in less than 5 years. 9 out of 10!

When you think of going out, your brain goes ‘aaj kuch naya khate hain’. Let’s try something new today.

Why Restaurants Fail - by Shashank Mehta

New gen smart home

  • No switches
  • Users will wear a watch, that automatically switches light on when someone goes to room and turns it off
  • All wires go to a smart wifi/bluetooth enabled central controller
  • Scheduling capability
  • Multiple appliances can be grouped to start and stop together
  • Cost saving
    • As no boards with switches
    • Only sockets

ATF Fuel Optimizer

Airline can be transporter of fuels if passenger occupancy is lower, i.e. based on passenger count and current rate diff of flying airport ATF rate vs place you are going, airline can decide on which airport it want to fill it's plane with

Universal Basic Income (UBI) / Universal basic services (UBS)

Universal Basic Income Explained - Free Money for Everybody? UBI - YouTube

An Honest Discussion About A Universal Basic Income - YouTube

Universal Basic Income (UBI) - Life After Automation - YouTube

A Socialist Perspective on the Pursuit of Happiness | Aaron Bastani | TED

  • Education
  • Housing
  • Healthcare
  • Transport
  • Food

Autonomous Vehicles / Driverless Cars / Self-driving Car

Others