How to Get Startup Ideas

👉 Here’s how you spot startup ideas in your day-to-day, from small annoyances to big opportunities.

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Egemen Eres
August 20, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

👋 Hey — Egemen here.

Ideas don’t come out of nowhere.

They show up when something feels broken, slow, or annoying.

“What do you wish someone would make for you?”

This week we’re digging into that.

Here’s a snapshot of what’s on the menu today:

💡 Spotlight: Go From Idea to Video in Minutes – Not Hours

🧠 Deep-Dive: How to Get Startup Ideas

🗺️ Method: All Your Apps In One Connected Space

⚾️ Catch: Monetize Your Skills

☝️ Scaled This Past Week: Midas

💡 Spotlight

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🧠 Deep-Dive: How to Get Startup Ideas

I’ve been thinking about how we actually come up with startup ideas. Turns out, trying to think of ideas is not a good approach.

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The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.

Ideas hit when I notice something broken in my own life.
A tool that slows me down or a process that feels ancient or whatever.

I’ve started treating every annoyance like a question: Could this be easier? Faster? Less painful? Sometimes the answer is yes, sometimes no. But the exercise always gets me somewhere.

So here’s my short recipe:

  1. Start with what bugs you. Seriously, what’s a small pain-point in your day? That’s your idea seed.

  2. Ask, don’t assert. Turn every thought into a question: Could I make this better?

  3. Scan for weird stuff. If something feels odd or outdated, lean in. That might be your edge.

I do that in my spare time and all of a sudden, I’m vibe coding another project.

refind 🌀

🗺️ Method

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⚾️ Catch

This tweet. Just this.

Take a moment and reflect.

☝️ Scaled This Past Week: Midas

Midas just secured $80M in Series B – it’s the scale of the week!

Midas Raises $80M Series B Funding

Midas, an Istanbul, Turkiye-based provider of an investment platform, raised $80M in Series B funding

www.finsmes.com/2025/08/midas-raises-80m-series-b-funding.html

This brings Midas’s total funding to date to over $140 million.

  • Since launching in 2020, Midas has rapidly grown to serve more than 3.5 million investors.

  • It offers access to Turkish (Borsa Istanbul) and U.S. equities, mutual funds, and cryptocurrencies, all in one platform.

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