How to find and validate startup ideas in 2026 #startup #app #coding #softwareengineer #computerscience

It's never been easier to make thousands of dollars by building up an app or even build out your own startup with all of the AI tools that are at your disposal for free. The hardest part is picking an idea of what to actually build, so if I were to start from scratch today these are three resources I would use to validate and pick an idea. First is where you should be starting no matter what, and it's the YC request for startups. Every single year YC puts out the exact startups that they're looking for to enter into their program in the next year, so you'll know that this idea is actually validated and is strong enough to get investment. One is Trust MRR, and this is a website that lets you see the amount of revenue that has been generated by other apps. To get motivation go through apps that interest you, for example, I did this with my AI resume generator by finding a competitor that I knew that I could do better at. And finally you have this pretty cool website that I recently stumbled on called ideabrowser.com. They have thousands of startup ideas that you can filter through based off of your career or interests. There's really no excuse, just get building.