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Free Business Ideas From Vercel's CEO

Straight from Guillermo Rauch's mind

Aditya Kumar Saroj
June 03, 2025

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I was scrolling through X as usual and came across a free ideas thread by Guillermo Rauch. I’m just resharing the ideas with my thoughts added (if you care about it).

Vibe Note Taking App

A Notion-style document tool where every block can be vibe coded. For instance, if you need a chart, that’s just a matter of adding a block backed by a prompt. These blocks could be live / reactive and re-evaluate as you write more (e.g.: a block at the end backed by the prompt “list of sources and citations referenced in the doc”). Embrace constraints & minimalism. Modern docs don’t need the feature creep of Word.

I have no interest in note-taking apps. Even the default Android Notes app is good enough for me. But millions of people use them, Notion being the most popular so it would definitely be cool to have one that can create notes and visualizations for you in any structure that you can convey with your words. It would still be neat but more flexible than any note-taking app in the world. Cool idea!

LLM-like Google Trends

The LLM vibes radar. Periodically ask AIs for opinions and rankings (“what’s the best burger in SF?”, “who is the best candidate?”, etc). Data visualization could look Google Trends-y. Use ISR for snappy and efficient rendering. This tool can help the world become aware of biases in AIs, be the “Wirecutter for everything”, entertain, and inform businesses on how they’re falling in or out of favor.

This is interesting if you build it but you need data like a search engine for this. For Google all it would take is to add a LLM on top of Google Trends. Not worth it in my opinion. But hey what do I know? Maybe you can build it and earn enough before Google does this.

Cloud To Database Tool

Cloud to SQLite. A glorious program dropped the other day on HN: Gmail to SQLite. I’m the most cloud & manage services pilled person in the world, but having near-realtime backups of any dataset of any SaaS sounds dreamy. This has value for individuals looking to explore data with LLMs and SQL, back up their data, gain portability, but also Enterprises and companies looking to build custom agents on top of their otherwise locked-up data36

Whatever data comes into your SaaS (let’s take an AI chatbot for example) gets organized into a neat data structure and stored in a DB for later use. Interesting idea - can be of great use for some businesses, worthless for others. B2B ideas like this make great money if you’re able to find the right customers.

Super Deep Research App

Deepest research. I notice that when I really need to study a topic in depth, I don’t want to bank on the viewpoint of a single LLM. Many times I fire up ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity in a bunch of tabs. I would love a tool that uses all the available intelligence on the internet to produce the best possible report. Key: tell me how the “experts” aka AIs differed, especially if they have contradicting facts, figures, or conclusions.

“Many times I fire up ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity in a bunch of tabs“ - I do the same thing every time too. This is a personal problem so I can definitely relate to it. I know there are multiple tools that offer different models in the same UI (haven’t really used any of them a lot). Don’t they provide cross-model Deep Research too? If not, they should!

Google Images with Better Search and Editing

Modern Google Images. Google has surprisingly not updated this crucial tool in a decade. I’d start by removing all the traps that make it hard to get to the actual image, remove duplicates, offer built-in AI tools like hyper-resolution / magnification, clearing imperfections, etc. Consider how hard it is to find a clean meme template or make a meme, which must be a huge cluster of queries! I’d specialize and enhance the results for relevant clusters like searching for logos, svgs, memes, and combine the internet’s index with generative ones.

This idea has been floating in the tech circles for quite a while now. The problem with this - you practically need to build a image search engine better than Google and then monetize while Google Images is free. And, if you somehow manage to do this, Google can destroy you in weeks by just copying your features. Not worth building imo. But again I can be wrong (I would love better image search too!).

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