Each year, tech startups all over the world are trying to reach the top with their breathtaking and sometimes crazy ideas. What are the hottest topics now and what are still exotic to the market of technology? We collected for you 15 tech startup ideas that have Uber-like potential this year.

The Most Exciting Startup Ideas

Speaking about the best ideas for tech startups, it’s always better to start with the topics that are already popular: although the market is overstocked, you have a guarantee of success if you have a good product to offer. Here is how profitable startup ideas look in 2021:

1. Healthcare app: it’s no surprise that healthcare is #1 point of people’s interest now, so creating an app that could facilitate doctor-patient communication and aggregate patient’s medical info at one place is at high demand now;
2. On-demand services app: it would be extremely convenient if different home and life services like cleaning, plumbing, cake ordering, beauty-services, etc. are available in the single app. Different companies have already started offering such services, but still there is no ultimate product;
3. CRM for small business: CRMs like Hubspot, Salesforce and others traditionally target big and medium-sized companies, but the niche of startups and small businesses is still abandoned despite the existing demand;
4. Employee training app: after the pandemic crisis, companies from numerous industries revealed a shortage of high-level professionals, and a need in quick training of newcomers. Both these problems could be solved with the help of dedicated training app;
5. Finance management app: although such products are already available on the market, people are still in search of the one that would fulfil all their desires like right purchases categorisation, expenses control and real-time tracking;
6. Travel-planning app: after COVID-19 planning trips become a risky task, and in case you get ill there is no guarantee that a travel agency will return the money, so creating a special web app that would aggregate information about countries, hotels, restaurants and tickets is in high demand now;
7. AR shopping app: companies like IKEA and Sephora have already tried to use augmented reality to sell their products, but now, when people prefer to shop online in order to stay safe, it’s more relevant than ever.

Blue Oceans of 2021

Our list of best web app ideas is not limited to popular topics, as you can always make a unique startup which nobody did before and become a giant corporation like Uber. Here is the list of startup ideas which stay fresh in 2021:

1. ML-based astrology: lots of people all over the world follow horoscopes every day, so creating an algorithm that infers data from the daily horoscopes and predicts their patterns will definitely bring you a fortune;
2. Memes developing app: the idea sounds insane, but internet memes are growing in popularity each year, so creating an app where users could easily find, store, create and exchange memes is a highly proficient idea;
3. YouTube radio/ChildTube: YouTube has a great popularity, impacting our lives greatly during the last 10 years, so the demand for its lacking products like radio or child app is only growing;
4. Car services app: it could aggregate the info about the nearest car service stations and offer an option of direct online registration for a needed one, whether it’s fuelling, repairing or tire changing;
5. Family web app: such a product could be a helper in daily routine tasks and organising leisure time and hobbies of the family members;
6. Interior design app: with the help of AR technology, people could economize on designer’s services and create their best fitted flat designs on their own;
7. Messages aggregator app: checking different messengers every hour has become a daunting task for a great number of people, while a single messages aggregating platform would make them much happier;
8. Help alert app: such an app would help people in danger to give a SOS signal onto three stated telephone numbers by just pressing a button.

Web Applications Types

After you come up with a brilliant tech startup idea, it’s time to decide upon the type of your web application. Let’s look onto the types of web applications and define their pros and cons for different types of businesses, as it will help you to choose the one that is more suitable for your needs:

1. Static apps — have no flexibility, as the user sees the page just as it is stored on the server, and any changes appear only after the page is completely loaded. Nevertheless, such web apps still can integrate videos and animated objects, and have a bunch of bonuses: easy hosting, low development cost, simple indexation and fast transferring on a low internet connection. They are a perfect match for creating professional resumes, marketing landing pages and promo sites.
2. Dynamic apps — have a more complex structure than static apps, as they need a database to store data and fetch it in real-time due to the users’ requests. Thanks to the use of CMSs and modern technology stack like JQuery, Node.js, Python, etc. dynamic apps fall into a variety of following types:

• Single-Page Applications: perform logic on the web browser instead of the server, that’s why they are quick, easy to debug and user-friendly; brightest examples are Gmail, Netflix and Pinterest;
• Multi-Page Applications: logic is stored at the backend, and each time a user performs a new action a new page from the server is displayed in the browser, like in Amazon and eBay;
• Portal Web Apps: here various sections like documents, chats, friends list, groups, are accessible on the home page. This is the best variant for businesses that want to create customised experience according with their users’ requirements, like it is in student and education portals, patient medical profiles, etc.;
• Animated Web Apps: the content is represented by using various animated effects and technologies like FLASH, HTML5, CSS3, etc., but their huge drawback is that they can’t be SEO optimized and search engines can’t get data from them, that’s why their use is limited now;
• Rich Internet Apps — have functionality of desktop apps, but work in browsers with the help of the client-side plugins like FLASH and Silverlight. They are very engaging and have great user experience, the brightest examples are Adobe Flash and Google Docs;
• JavaScript Powered Web Apps: use JS frameworks like Angular.js, React.js, Vue.js, Node.js, which allows to customise and adapt apps to their users, like it is in LinkedIn and Uber;
• Progressive Web Apps: users of these apps have access to its complete features using mobile browsers, and performance here is high even despite slow internet connection, like in Spotify and OLX;
• eCommerce Web Apps: complex web apps, development of which involves handling online transactions, building databases of products and customers, as well as their real-time updating. The examples of such apps are Lancôme and Flipkart.

Thus, a compact landing page could be a good choice for a legal adviser, a portal web app can fit a medical services company, while an eCommerce app is the best decision for a commercial giant.

How to Make a Technological Choice

Here you should start from defining your target audience and the demands of your future users. It’s good to arrange a thorough research, even to analyse your audience behaviour in social media. It will help you to upsurge the marketability of your brand and make it popular. Then you should proceed with the following steps:

• Make a requirement analysis: how do you see your final product? Which features should it possess? Should it be free or not, and how will you make money on it? Think about it before the realisation is begun;
• Choose your development approach, framework, and design: decide which type of web application you want, as well as the platform for its realisation and design; set a timeline for the project;
• Get the right technology partner: decide whether you have enough resources to fulfil your project, and if not find a reliable partner. Consult with your partner upon the type of application you’ve chosen.

Now you are ready to create your own application. There are myriads of ways to realise a good startup idea, but only few of them will hit the charts in 2021, so we hope this article will help you to make the right choice. Still it can be difficult to hit the ground with all these factors to think about, so if you have a great idea of a tech startup, you can always contact us and get a free personal consultation upon your project. We will help you to choose the right web application type for your business idea, and together will decide upon framework and design. For more information, please click here.