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Ask HN: Which niche online businesses would you love to own?

16 points by bhag2066 ↗ HN
I'm looking for inspiration:

Have you had your eye on a small website or piece of software delivered online, delivered seamlessly online (e.g. no sales team or implementation) that is just a great business but it's so good the owner won't sell?

My example is BuiltWith.

What is yours?

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markus_zhang
Some online obituary websites that people with the right credential can join a "group" setup by the family and share thoughts and even photos.

Privacy could be the worst enemy, though.

bhag2066
Great one! Internet native, simple web page, low cost and clear value transfer between the company and the customer.

Edit: to make the comment more useful

rrwright
This question sounds like it was asked by a private equity investor looking to sample the tech zeitgeist before buying up and destroying some beloved tool.
yen223
I like email marketing companies, please don't buy them up and destroy them
bhag2066
Nah, the point is these businesses are so good the owner would never sell. So there's nothing to buy. It's more for inspiration, like, what does a good, neat, fun, useful, little internet business look like?
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alexei_rudak
I would love to have my own service and technology to localise videos by using AI. All startups in that niche are growing so fast.
bhag2066
Looks like you are living your dream :) Best of luck with it!
alexei_rudak
Thanks! But I'm still not in my dream, may be next year will be able to create technology that can do that with desired level of quality ))
shivc
Simple micro apps I guess which serve a very specific but important pain point IMHO.

Todoist is a a good example, so is an app called Focus To-Do (the one with orange logo)

shanecleveland
https://750words.com or https://builtwith.com
bhag2066
I've admired 750 Words as an internet business from afar for a while now. Combo of Morning Pages being a time tested tool (with Tim Ferriss as a practitioner no less) and it being a perfect match for the internet and a small subscription (daily journaling with streaks)

The webmaster has some interesting write-ups on Indie Hackers for people wanting to know more...

greentext
Maybe something low effort and ironic like you'd find on a web ring, but even less effort.