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Colaunched notices what people are already asking for, turns it into business ideas, and scores each one for you: what you can do, what you'd put in, how long you'd give it.

Free to browse. No card. We never estimate what you'll earn.
What an idea looks like: example cards, scored for a sample profile.
87
HealthNew
Jet-lag coaching for business travelers
Editors are asking practitioners for protocols, searches are up 61%, and nobody sells a packaged program.
Asked for 14 times  ·  Search +61%  ·  Under $2k to start
DifficultyMedium
PotentialSolid
82
Small businessNew
Payroll-switch migration service
Owners are publicly describing what broke when they changed payroll tools. The pain repeats every January.
Asked for 9 times  ·  Search +24%  ·  Under $1k to start
DifficultyLow
PotentialModest
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Real demand, not guesses.
Every idea starts as something people actually asked for, confirmed in more than one place, with a date.
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Scored for you.
Difficulty and fit come from what you've done, not a quiz. Potential is the market we observed.
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A plan, and a badge when it's real.
Ninety days with gates. Verified revenue earns the Colaunched badge, checked and never bought.
How it works

How Colaunched finds ideas

Short version: we don't make ideas up. We notice what people are already asking for, confirm it in more than one place, and tell you how sure we are.

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We listen for real demand.
Every day we collect requests from journalists looking for experts, questions people ask in public forums, what people are searching for, and what's being published. We keep each one exactly as we found it, with the date.
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We group them into topics.
When several unrelated requests point at the same need, that's a topic. One request is an anecdote. Two independent ones is the beginning of a pattern.
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We check whether anyone is serving it.
We look at who already sells something for that need, what they charge, and how the advice that exists holds up. A gap is where people are asking and nobody is answering well.
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We write it up as an idea and score it.
Demand, timing, the gap, and how much evidence stands behind it. Then two things that are personal to you: how hard it would be for you, and how well it fits what you can do.
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We keep checking.
Ideas are re-scored every morning. Windows close, competitors appear, and demand fades. When that happens we say so rather than leaving a stale idea on the list.

Browse for free. Pay when you start.

Every idea, every score, and your profile cost nothing. Pro is for the ninety days. Partner is for doing it with someone.

Yearly billing is the lower price on each card; month to month is the higher one.
FreeFor finding what to start
Free
Every idea, scored for you
Difficulty and potential on each
Your evidence-based profile
One saved list
Share any idea
Join free
ProFor the ninety days
$29 a month, billed yearly
or $39 month to month
Everything in Free
The full reasoning behind each score
A launch plan with gates
Answers drafted for live requests
Verification and the badge
The morning email
Start ProCancel any time. The badge is earned, never bought.
PartnerPer person
$59 a month, billed yearly
or $69 month to month, per person
Everything in Pro
Matching on the gap your idea needs
Fit and difficulty for the team
Ownership and roles, recorded
Verification for every member
Start Partner
Referrals are months, not money.
Share an idea; if they join, you get a month of Pro. If they become your partner, you both do.
Verification is never upsold.
First revenue is checked the same way on every plan. No tier sits behind a higher price.
We never estimate what you'll earn.
Potential is the market we observed. What you make is yours to find out. How we score
Questions

What people ask before they start

What is Colaunched?+

Colaunched listens for things people are already asking for in public, turns each pattern into a business idea, scores the idea, and then scores it again for you: how hard it would be for you in particular, and how well it fits what you can do. If you decide to start one, it gives you a ninety day plan with gates, written for that idea and for you, and it holds you to it.

It is not a list of ideas someone dreamed up. Every idea on the list began as real people asking for something, in more than one place, on a date we can show you.

Is it free?+

Browsing is free and needs no card. On the free plan you see every idea, every score, the reasoning behind each score, and your own evidence-based profile, and you can save ideas to a list. Pro is for the ninety days after you decide to start one: the plan written for that idea and you, the gates, and the morning email. Plans and billing has the prices.

How is this different from asking an AI chatbot for business ideas?+

A chatbot answers from what it remembers, and it remembers what has been written about, which is what already exists. Colaunched starts from what people asked for this week and could not find. The idea is written by a model, but only after a pattern of real requests has been found, and the requests are kept as evidence you can read. A chatbot also cannot tell you what it does not know; every idea here carries an Evidence score that says how much stands behind it, and ideas with too little evidence are never published.

The other difference is what happens after the idea. Colaunched is built around the ninety days: a plan with gates, the record of what happened, and verified first revenue. Getting an idea is the easy part.

Will you tell me how much I could make?+

No, and we never will. Nobody can know what your business will earn, and a product that pretends to is selling you a number. What we show is Potential, which describes the size of the market we observed: how many people are asking, and what others charge for something like it. What you make is yours to find out, and verified first revenue is the first honest number.

Where do the ideas come from?+

From public demand. Every day we collect requests journalists publish when they need an expert, questions people ask in public forums that nobody has answered, one and two star reviews of the apps that lead their category, new rules published by regulators that create an obligation, what people are searching for, and what is being published. Each item is kept exactly as we found it, with the date.

When several unrelated items point at the same need, that is a topic. One request is an anecdote. Two independent ones is the beginning of a pattern, and that is the bar a topic has to clear before anything else happens.

What does the score mean?+

The number out of a hundred is a reading of the evidence on a given day. Eighty and above we call Strong, seventy and above Good, and the rest Fair. Under it, the idea page shows exactly which parts made it: Demand, Timing, Market gap and Evidence are about the idea, and Fit and Difficulty are about you. The page also says where the idea ranks among all the ideas scored for you.

A score is not a verdict on whether the business will work. It says how much demand we saw, how open the window is, how poorly the need is served today, and how much we are sure of.

What happens to my résumé?+

It is read once to draft the lines on your profile, and it is not stored. We keep only the date we read it. The reading is done by a provider that does not keep or train on what it sees; your résumé is never sent to a free model tier that learns from its input. The lines that come out are yours to change, and they are all that remains.

What happens when I start an idea?+

Day one begins. You get a ninety day plan (six months for the one kind of idea that needs a licence before it can sell; see below) with a handful of steps and at least one gate, and within about a minute the steps are rewritten for this idea and for you: the model is given the idea's evidence, what it needs, who buys it, and your own profile lines and limits, and it hands back steps in the same skeleton. You can edit any step, add your own, and set your own gates. The plan is the method; the wording is yours to change.

My product will take longer than ninety days to make. Won't I miss every gate?+

No, because the ninety days were never the time it takes to build the thing. They are the time it takes to find out whether anyone will pay for it, and those are different for almost every business. An inventor's first gate is not "prototype done"; it is five deposits on the drawing, a signed letter of intent from a buyer, or a waitlist that converted when money was asked for. Those are things a stranger can do in ninety days about a widget that does not exist yet, and they are exactly what the plan is written to force, because the expensive mistake is fourteen months of tooling for something nobody ordered. A deposit is first revenue, and the badge counts it.

The plan knows this. When the idea is a physical product, a device, or anything manufactured, the first step is the offer of the thing before it exists (a drawing, a description, a sample, a price) and the gate counts deposits, pre-orders or letters of intent on that offer.

There is one exception to ninety days: an idea that cannot lawfully take money before a licence, certification, registration or regulatory clearance is in hand. For those the plan is written for six months, the reason is printed on the launch page, the first step is filing for it, and the first gate counts both the filing being acknowledged and the people who have said they will pay once it is lawful. You cannot choose the horizon yourself and gates do not move once set; a gate is only worth something because it was fixed before you knew how you would feel about it.

What is the difference between Free and Pro?+

Free is for finding what to start: every idea, every score and its reasoning, your evidence-based profile, a saved list, and the morning email if you want it. Pro is for the ninety days: starting an idea, the plan written for that idea and you, the gates, and the record of what happened. Pro costs $348 a year, which is $29 a month, or $39 month to month.

All 53 questions, on scores, plans, billing, privacy and the badge.