If you want to build something instead, I suggest taking a look at indie hackers to see what other people are doing or using a tool like glimpse to find trends before they pop-off and build a solution to those things. Source: 11 months ago

The most valuable and impressive thing you can do is build a business. Hands down. Especially if it makes money. That will show you're not just a cog in the wheel but able to critically think and have valuable practical skillsets. I would experiment with something that has tailwinds. Like an AI business, or a VR business once the new apple VR app store comes out. you'd be shocked at how much you can make... Source: 12 months ago

For example; trends.co is not very good because the people that write for them are journalists, not business owners so although the writing is good, the ideas are poorly researched. On the other hand, meetglimpse.com is pretty good, they have nuanced and unique business ideas that you can take advantage of but the market research behind it is a little lacking, their chrome extension tool is great tho. And then... Source: about 1 year ago

a lot of things. I've built 3 online businesses that were profitable with under $1000. it's really just a hustle once you get product market fit. Starting something online shouldn't take that much money if you know how to test it. Check out like trends.vc, explodingideas.co, meetglimpse.com etc. They may be able to spark your creativity for ideas that could be good opportunities for the price point. Source: about 1 year ago

Great idea. You should scrape ideas from meetglimpse.com, explodingideas.co, trends.co and the other sites that post ideas. Would be an easy way to bulk up the document. Source: about 1 year ago

This is called open startup.. you can see a list at https://openstartup.tm. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

I don't know about _fully open_, but I think Buffer is an example of a company that shares unusually much. https://buffer.com/resources/revenue-dashboard/ There's some sort of list at https://openstartup.tm/ but I think a lot of companies listed there are open with only select pieces of info. Both of these are about public sharing though. Employee sharing is trickier to know from the outside. Perhaps Valve... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

- https://openstartup.tm/ pros: if you're an early adopter, it's nice to know how the service you're investing time in is doing financially. One of the biggest risks of choosing a new/unknown service, as a consumer, is that it will fail/close and you'll have to migrate somewhere else. I think the open company movement has other benefits as well. Behind just financials, but companies sharing their employee... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago