Founder of Technology Incubator Idealab and 100 companies in last 30 years. Tweeting while on my quest for learning in life and at conferences.
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Check out the 1.2m free business ideas we have posted at idealab.ai..
For 50+ years, I’ve been obsessed with finding problems worth turning into companies.
Today I’m launching @Idea_lab_AI to apply that process with #AI at a scale I never could alone.
1.2M+ business ideas. Free to explore and use.
What will you build?
idealab.ai
#IdealabAI #Entrepreneurship
Most surprising has been that in just one day, more than 16,000 ideas have been viewed by more than 112 countries! That makes us super happy but we had no idea it would have so much reach..
If you find an idea that you love, and want to take it forward, we are working to either make funds available or connect you to investors who might be willing to fund. My whole goal is to cause more great startups to be formed via idealab.ai..
This looks great, talk to lots of people who want more ideas. What’s the piece about $100M in funding.
Rob, thank you, that's such great news!
That was one of our goals, not only to help people find great ideas at Idealab.ai but also to be able to type in an idea and get ways to improve it with adjacent ideas. You are using this exactly the way we dreamed..
Love it, its helped me validate Mederti.com and improves our roadmap too
Christian, thanks so much! I really appreciate your kind words..
I really hope that people can find something that really inspires them at Idealab.ai
Incredible. Just incredible. @Bill_Gross
fortune.com/2026/10/20/ideal…
Michelle, thank you for supporting this idea so generously! Cloudflare is an amazing company and I'm so honored to be able to share it with all your great partners at your Conference. The audience was incredible and so receptive..
Inspired hearing about the new company @Bill_Gross has launched called IdeaLab AI. There are 1.2 million ideas on there for anyone that wants to build something. And @Cloudflare is giving $100,000 in credits to help build any of the ideas. Let’s go!
Thanks so much for sharing this! I hope people can find a great idea at idealab.ai that matches their skills or passions. They are all free, so I really would love people to give it a try..
So far, more than 16,000 ideas have been explored by people from more than 112 counries!
AI analyzed 17M+ sources and brainstormed 1.3M+ startup ideas!
Bill Gross (@Bill_Gross), founder of Idealab, just unveiled his new project: Idealab.AI at the CloudFlare Connect 2026.
And the best part? They’re all open source.
If you’re a founder looking for your next big idea, this is worth exploring.
Check it out: idealab.ai
Dennis, I hope you find a GREAT new business to start at Idealab.ai If you do, please let us know! We want to help you be successful..
Thanks for sharing this. I really do hope this can be a game-changer for founders.. I realize the idea is only the first step, but we're hoping to help with all the stages too, with our Periodic Table: idealab.ai/elements-of-busin… at Idealab.ai
That's so awesome! We'd love to hear it. I don't think we have a way to submit an idea (because we are overflowing with ideas - smile) but let me talk to the team. Thanks for the suggestion, and your idea sounds great..
Can we submit our ideas to the website?
My husband built automotive dealership platform, to run a dealership under one platform instead of the 10 different systems that they currently spend anywhere from $25k-$100k a month on software alone.
This one can run it all for 1/8th of the price. With AI capabilities built in.
Idealab.ai is now live on Product Hunt: producthunt.com/products/ide… let me know your thoughts there and please try it out..
Thank you so much Andrew, that's my whole goal. People can find their passion and skills match to great ideas, and then take it from there! I can't wait to see what happens..
That's a great idea for an improvement at Idealab.ai I will tell the team! Thanks so much!
Brian, thanks so much. Thank you for sharing. We want as many people as possible to find a problem they are passionate about in Idealab.ai and if we can help them get that started, that would be amazing..
The database of 1.2m ideas at Idealab.ai does talk about competitors, but we also offer a more in depth patent search and competitor analysis as an option at the end of each idea. It takes more time and has a small token cost, but it's available to check out..
Matt, you are too kind! But yes, my whole life I have been trying to come up with more ideas to solve problems, and idealab.ai I guess is the culmination of that..
For the 1.2m ideas at Idealab.ai, we did as much duplicate filtering as we could.. If some got through that are the same, please let us know and we will improve. Thanks.
Yes, every great idea in there is just a starting point.. It still needs lots of human judgement, passion, adjustment, decision making and so much more. But if that first spark can be helpful, that would be amazing.
That's so awesome that you even found a great idea around that use case in there! With 1.2m ideas, I have only seen a tiny percentage of them, so hearing this makes me feel great about the hidden gems in there at Idealab.ai Thanks..
