6 Products I Wish Existed

Here's a list of products that I haven't seen (at least not executed the way I'd like) and would love for someone to build. Note that I do not tend to do much research on these, so if they already exist, I would appreciate the heads-up.

1-Man Video Game Studio

GenAI-powered video game studio where one person can create the art, music, story, and logic for a 2D video game in a couple of weeks with no code. Could also be a cloud-first collaborative game studio where you can team up with folks who specialize in the music, story, art, or logic side.

The Social OS

One app where you log in with your credentials from other social apps, and you can then do two things:

1. Post to all/some of the apps, all at once;
2. View & respond to DMs or other direct engagement from all the apps in one place.

For browsing, you can go to the apps themselves, but boy would I like to be able to just do those two things from just one app and not even have Instagram or Twitter installed on my phone.

The Social App For Millennials

Instagram, TikTok, and Snap have all gone the way of the zoomer, leaving a space for one app to serve as the central means of interaction with friends—not the general public. Simple, basic text + images + videos + profiles, but shows you only friends content, or maybe friends and friends-of-friends.

Video Game for Kids to Learn History

Kids love video games. Kids hate school. History class can be boring and it's featured less than ever in modern curricula. Someone should make a hit video game that teaches history as part of the narrative.

Google Glass, by Apple

Slap an M1 chip on a pair of sunglasses and make an AR device that can scan your environment (front-facing camera) and apply smart overlays (face recognition on people, star ratings on restaurants, warnings when suspicious/threatening behavior is detected, etc).

Bonus: gloves that detect movement precisely enough that you can "type" with specific hand movements; usable while walking around and seeing the screen overlayed on reality. I want to be able to walk through a forest and write emails or code while I do so, at the same speed that I'd be able to do so on a phone.

Jarvis, by Zapier

Zapier already knows how to use the APIs of a bajillion other apps. They should make an assistant that I can pull up on my laptop and ask to do things, and it calls the APIs and does basic transforms/logic as needed to service my requests. "Transfer all my data from Slack to Teams" or "Create a Google Sheet with Discord engagement metrics from the last month".