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🎃 Want to Grow Your Startup? Discover how one daring entrepreneur went from $700k to $2 million in just 1.5 years—no tricks, just treats!
Chris Bulen & Daniel Ebohon
October 29, 2024
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Hey there, brave readers.
it’s Chris and Daniel from Startups.fyi—happy Halloween Tuesday! 🎃
With Halloween around the corner, your favorite newsletter has stirred up some hauntingly startup ideas from the wild corners of startups, side hustles, and online businesses to give your entrepreneurial spirit a bit of Halloween magic!
So, expect ghostly insights and spooktacular ideas with some serious earning potential. 💀
Dare to catch up with us on X (Twitter)! Drop by, say hello, and let us know if there’s a project we should feature—we’d love to hear from you! 👋🏾
For our new members, welcome to the haunted house! 🕯️ You’re officially part of the crew, so feel free to sign up or dig through past editions and get ready to turn your startup dreams into something extraordinary!
Get ready for some spooky insights!
Today: 7 spooktacular 👻 startups ideas
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🦇 Startups.fyi Spotlight 💀
1. AI Headshot Generator 🧛
This AI-powered instant headshot creates professional portraits, eliminating the need for studio visits, costly fees, and long wait times.
This tool was launched in 2024 and was built with no-code tools by a solo founder.
Curious to find out more? [Click here and try it if you dare!]
2. QSTN 🕸️
This platform lets you create and share interactive questions, quizzes, and polls, perfect for bewitching your audience.
Launched in 2024 by a solo founder, this platform is currently in its pre-revenue stage.
3. Shotzio 🕷️
Make your screenshot spooktacular!!
With this user-friendly screenshot editing tool that helps users beautifully edit, watermark, and share their screenshots with ease, no design skills are required!
Created in 2024 by a solo founder, this platform is still in there pre-revenue stage.
4. AutoRFP 🏚️
This AI-powered platform automates and streamlines proposal creation and management, making it easier and more efficient for businesses.
Generating $349/month since 2023.
5. TestDriver 🦊
This AI tool automates software testing for smoother, error-free launches for DevOps teams, QA engineers, software developers, and test automation specialists.
Brings in $500/month for its creator.
6. Pushbio 🧙♂️
Here is an all-in-one platform for creators to showcase their work, engage their audience, build a loyal community, and monetize their passion through a customizable bio link page with various features and tools.
Launched in 2020 by a solo founder, this tool generates $1,000 per month.
Writer RAG tool: build production-ready RAG apps in minutes
RAG in just a few lines of code? We’ve launched a predefined RAG tool on our developer platform, making it easy to bring your data into a Knowledge Graph and interact with it with AI. With a single API call, writer LLMs will intelligently call the RAG tool to chat with your data.
Integrated into Writer’s full-stack platform, it eliminates the need for complex vendor RAG setups, making it quick to build scalable, highly accurate AI workflows just by passing a graph ID of your data as a parameter to your RAG tool.
7. AroundDeal Insight 👻
This tool gives you quick access to valuable info about competitors and growth ops which can help you understand competitors and discover growth opportunities lurking in the shadows.
Launched in 2024 by a team of founders, this tool is generating $5,000 MRR.
Want more info on this? [Haunt your competitors’ secrets today!]
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🧛 Startups fyi Roundup 🕯️
🧐 What dark forces shaped Stripe’s $1.1B acquisition of Bridge?
Discover the cryptic secrets and strategic twists behind Stripe’s monstrous deal and its impact on future transactions. [Learn more here!]
🔍 What’s Haunting Your Startup?
Face the lurking shadows in your business with our guide to exorcizing obstacles. [Click if you dare!]
⚰️ From Beyond the Grave: Success Stories!
How one brave entrepreneur transformed their $700K business into a $2M powerhouse in just 1.5 years. [Unearth their secrets here!]
🕯️ Startup Ideas Unearthed!
Unearth over 9,000 spine-tingling startup ideas from the depths of r/startups and r/somebodymakethis. Will you discover your next big scare? [Peek if you dare]
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That’s it for this time! See you again next week.
— Chris (@ChrisBulen)