Million Dollar Business Ideas

Build in a weekend. Make millions.

GET: Million dollar business ideas

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Hi there, I’m Dan Ryland (@RealDanRyland). You may remember me from such hackathon entries as 🥇 WINNER: Supafactor: Does your README have it? and 🥈 Runner up: Groove AI: AI Generated Drum Patterns.

What have I build this time round?

A million dollar business idea generator.

Presenting milliondollarbusinessideas.com, where you can build in a weekend AND make millions.

How does it work?

I seeded the database with 611 million dollar business ideas. Each idea consists of a title, description, a suggested MVP or first prototype, suggestions on how to get your first 10 users and finally, the big one - how to make your first million.

Taking inspiration from Y Combinator's 'Request for Startups', I asked GPT-4 to suggest some typical search queries that would go along with these theme descriptions.

Taking each search query, I used Brave Search API to provide current and related news articles matching the search query.

Returning to GPT-4 I then asked it to merge the initial YC theme, the search results from Brave and generate 10 related million dollar business ideas following my format.

To automate further, I used Zapier to loop through the remainder YC themes, generate search queries then run together to get the ideas.

Within the web application you can either get a bespoke list of ideas matching an interest or you can pick 20 random ideas from the database.

Once you've selected your idea, you can read the full blueprint on making your first million including generating matching images using DALLE-3.

Supabase features

The following Supabase features are being used:

• Database
  • Fetch
  • Upsert
• Edge function
  • Open AI (gpt-4-1106-preview)
  • Brave Search API

Design process

• Figma for prototyping and designing assets
• DALL-E 3 for contextual images within the business idea blueprint

Build process

Built entierly using Quasar framework

To run locally, you'll need the following:

Environment variables

SUPABASE_URL
SUPABASE_KEY
SUPABASE_FUNCTION

For the edge function:

OPEN_API
BRAVE_API

Install the dependencies

yarn
# or
npm install

Start the app in development mode (hot-code reloading, error reporting, etc.)

quasar dev

Lint the files

yarn lint
# or
npm run lint

Format the files

yarn format
# or
npm run format

Deploy

Deploy the Supabase edge function:

supabase functions deploy bespoke-idea

Hosted on Cloudflare

Build the app for production

quasar build

Publish directory:

dist/spa

Icons

Favicon

icongenie generate -i src/assets/img/icon-million-dollar-business-ideas.png --quality 12 --skip-trim