98 internet business ideas

You know from an article about assessing the prospects of an online project that ideas are more difficult to implement than to generate. Disagree with this? Do you want to continue to justify inactivity by the lack of a good idea? Will not work. Below are collected all possible ideas of Internet business at the moment. Okay, almost everything. Read, choose, do.

  1. Simple idea: open an online store. What to trade? Yes, anything: children's clothing, handmade, expensive cosmetics. Try to sell what you like and what you understand.
  2. Online insurance broker. Briefly about the essence: the client enters the site, calculates the cost of the policy, transfers money to you. You send him the contract by mail or by courier.
  3. Forex provider. The world currency market works online. Why not become a part of it?
  4. Trust management and PAMM accounts. If you are a successful Forex trader, invite people to manage their investments for a share of the profits.
  5. Content project. What to post? Here the field is unplowed: even seals roll.
  6. Blogging. This is one of the details of the content project. Write or make videos about what interests you and your audience. How does Mikhail Shakin, for example.
  7. Development of software and applications.
  8. Web service "Conversation with an expert or celebrity". Invite an expert and sell a personal conversation on Skype through the auction system.
  9. Affiliate Marketing. Sell ​​other people's products for a commission.
  10. Info products: create and sell courses, webinars, white papers, e-books, and more.
  1. Freelance. The main thing is to choose a specialization to your liking.
  2. Free dating service online. Don't be tempted to break the law.
  3. Digital library. Litres and Bookmate alone are not enough for the entire runet.
  4. Online coaching. Teach people how to lose weight, save money, trade Forex, meet girls, play the guitar, shave with straight razors.
  5. Social network. Just do not say that you should not compete with Facebook and Vkontakte. Start with a specialized social service. Here's ReadRate and LiveLib for inspiration.
  6. Hosting provider. Yeah, you have to buy expensive equipment and push your elbows to get a place in the market.
  7. Service for buying tickets and tours online.
  8. Online radio. Offer your audience a quality information flow.
  9. Photobank. Sell ​​photos.
  10. Online casino or sweepstakes. Find out how to properly register this business so as not to break the law.
  11. Divination, predictions, magic online. For every product there is a merchant.
  12. Games. This particular aspect of creating software and applications can and should be singled out.
  13. Cybersquatting. Invest in domain registration and resale.
  14. Joint shopping service. Try to work locally: in your city or region.
  15. Online flea market. Try to win the competition through specialization.
  16. Discount aggregator. It's a competitive market, but worth a try.
  17. T-shirt prints. This business can be run remotely.
  1. Handmade. Take orders for the manufacture of products online. What to do? Crockery, dolls, furniture, jewelry, shaving bowls, musical instruments. Anything, in a word.
  2. Psychological help online. If someone turns to fortune-tellers, then there are clients for psychologists.
  3. Thematic catalog. Develop the idea of ​​yellow pages, create a virtual directory of businesses and institutions.
  4. Bulletin board. Has already? And you do better. Or search for your blue ocean for the rest of your life.
  5. Trade on Ebay and Amazon. What to sell? One example: Europeans buy 5 Mostochlegmash blades for 1.1 euros. How much do they cost in a store near you? That's right, 3 euros for 100 pieces. See where the gesheft is? Who needs Moscow blades? Hmm, Americans consider them almost the best in the world. If you decide to trade, check out the article about Amazon.
  6. Online Shape Library. Create and maintain up to date a resource from which you can download application forms to any authority: from the passport office to the tax office. Find a way to monetize traffic.
  7. Legal help online. Help the audience to create packages of documents for the registration of enterprises, registration at the place of residence, etc.
  8. Marketing agency. Why not.
  9. Network marketing online. Become a distributor of magic pills and miracle cosmetics. Sell ​​this stuff through your own website.
  10. Online Research Agency. Conduct surveys, study statistics, sell reports.
  11. Online time bank. Most importantly, find a way to monetize this project.
  12. Survival School. Start preparing people for the zombie apocalypse today.
  13. Dropshipping. Just don't confuse it with drag-dilling. Dropshippers are intermediaries that organize the delivery of goods to consumers. In the context of online business, you may be interested in profitable delivery of goods from foreign online stores.
  1. Soap and handmade cosmetics. What is the Internet here? And you will sell products online.
  2. Homemade confectionery. Here it will be possible to work only in the local market.
  3. Individual tailoring. Be sure to publish the guide “How to take measurements yourself” on the site.
  4. Charity. Unfortunately, in our world this is also a business. Fundraisers of charitable foundations around the world receive a share of the funds raised.
  5. Employment advice. You will not believe it, but many applicants, even in the age of the Internet, do not know how to write a resume.
  6. Usury. No, you do not need a banking license. Thanks to online money, you can lend to anyone in the status of a private person.
  7. Remote technical support. Do you know how many users do not know how to set up a router?
  8. Internet cafe. Yes, Wi-Fi coverage is almost everywhere. And you focus on the cafe.
  9. Virtual currency exchange. Change wmz to wmr and back at a favorable rate.
  10. Antique shop online. Buy, restore and sell old items.
  11. Buying and selling sites. You need to buy a failed project, improve it and resell it.
  12. Thematic forum. Create a forum similar to the forum of the Russian Medical Server in your field.
  13. Online sale of sets of goods for everyday use. A couple of years ago, the Net blew up the DollarShaveClub project, which regularly sent out a $1 set of razor blades to customers. This way you can sell different things: socks, hygiene items, contact lens solution, fish and dog food, etc.
  14. Digitization of paper photos, books, documents. Can you handle it?
  15. Online audit. Check sites, programs, applications, services.
  16. ghost writing. One of the particulars of freelancing, if you will. Most likely, you will write not for politicians, like the hero of the film, but for potential candidates and doctors of science.
  17. Web service for teaching older people how to use computers. Do something similar to LinguaLeo, only about basic PC skills for the elderly.
  18. Surprise service. The client pays you 500 rubles and names the address of the person he wants to surprise and make laugh. You take some nonsense, pack it up and send it to the addressee. It is impossible to choose nonsense, otherwise the whole meaning is lost.
  19. Russification of templates for WordPress. Thanks to our guide, you don't need any special training: just go ahead and do it.
  20. Virtual Realtor. Create a resource for publishing ads for the sale and purchase of real estate.
  21. Remote call center services. You will have to pay employees and buy equipment.
  22. hacker agency. You need to hack everything in a row, and then sell information about vulnerabilities to the owners. Be sure to study all the legal nuances. Apparently, you will have to be called not hackers, but cybersecurity specialists.
  1. Sale of online communities. It's simple: we created a community, caught up with bots, earned 100 rubles. To earn more, create real communities.
  2. Delivery service. Focus on online service: the user should be able to set a task and pay for services on the Internet. The courier should appear for a couple of seconds to pick up or deliver the package.
  3. Service Exchange. Create a freelance website for offline workers: plumbers, carpenters, electricians, carers.
  4. Exchange of secret buyers. Help brands find artists for this delicate job.
  5. Sale of organic products. This particular aspect of e-commerce deserves special mention. It seems that the fashion for natural will never go away.
  6. Product testing. Study consumer properties of products and write reports. Once you become a known expert, sellers and manufacturers will send free samples and pay for reviews.
  7. Venture investment. Invest in projects at an early stage of development. Maybe one of the 50,000 startups you fund will be the next Facebook.
  8. Coworking center. Create a working environment for entrepreneurs and businessmen.
  9. Production of modern gadgets with internet connection. These can be robot toys, drones, sensor bracelets for children and pets, smart home devices, etc.
  10. System administration services. Your company will become an outsourcer of services for companies that do not want to keep a system administrator on the staff.
  11. Online copy center. The bottom line is this: clients email you term papers, theses, photographs, and memoirs. You print them, stitch them and send them to the customer via courier service. For a fee, you can edit and format documents.
  1. Sale of goods for animals. Another particularity of online trading that deserves special mention due to its high margins. Paradox: people save on themselves, but pay big money for goods for children and animals.
  2. Event planning. Sell ​​the creation of scripts for weddings, corporate parties, holidays.
  3. Loan broker online. The idea is similar to virtual insurance brokerage: you collect credit card applications online and pass them on to banks. You work according to the TCS-bank model, but represent the interests of several financial institutions.
  4. Medical consultation online. Of course, it will be difficult for you to compete with the Russian Medical Server forum, where you can get advice from great specialists for free. Try to win the market with urgency, video call consultations and mobile patient consultation apps.
  5. Service for creating design layouts, three-dimensional models of premises online. Try to let clients edit layouts themselves.
  6. Tutor online. Create a resource where parents can find remote tutors for their children.
  7. Online estimator. Create a service with which you can automatically calculate the estimate for repairs or small construction. For a fee, let me buy the services of a live estimator. You can earn on commissions from suppliers of building materials.
  8. Credit bureau. In the age of the Internet, credit histories can be generated online.
  9. Office lunch delivery service. No, you don't need to transmit cabbage soup via Bluetooth. Build an app that allows employees in every office center in the area to quickly order lunch.
  10. Lottery agency. Your clients leave a request and the coordinates of the "victim". You play it and get money.
  11. Make toys according to children's drawings. It seems that on Adme.ru they talked about an entrepreneur who implemented this idea. It's simple: a child draws some kind of freak, parents send you a drawing, and you bring children's fantasies to life.
  12. strawberry business. According to some reports, adult content generates more than a third of Internet traffic globally. Take advantage of this. Just have a good understanding of strawberry varieties: do not try to break laws, including ethical ones. Create and sell a beautiful, lightweight, artistically valuable product.


  1. Service for creating mobile applications. Will have to compete with TheAppBuilder and Appsmakerstore. But you will catch the wave of mobile transformation of the Internet.
  2. Play poker online. What does this have to do with business? Professional players earn beautiful amounts of foreign currency at the virtual table. Why poker and not chess, football or roulette? In chess and football, they earn offline, and in roulette, winnings depend on chance.
  3. Open an online university. Remotely teach people anything: programming, journalism, design. Attract reputable lecturers. Make your university degree prestigious.
  4. Service for sending posthumous messages. There is no need to invent anything: it is enough to creatively rethink the idea of ​​the British Last Messages Club. The service sends emails to family and friends when a club member dies. Something like this: “Water the flowers, walk with Barbos three times a day. Yes, the policy and cash are in the cell of Sberbank.
  5. Warehouse outsourcing. Imagine the situation: you have an empty attic, and your neighbor has something that has nowhere to store, but it's a pity to throw it away. Neighbor pays 100 rubles a year for storing rubbish in your attic. Here's a business idea: create an online service where owners of empty attics and junk can find each other.
  6. Employment portal for people with special needs. This service will be in demand by employers and job seekers. Start thinking about how to monetize it.
  7. Realize the idea within the framework of the concept of the Internet of things. Come up with something: Insert the wireless transmitter and display into running shoes, a water bottle, a dog collar, or a baby diaper. Help customers count the kilometers traveled, milliliters drunk, remotely monitor the well-being of children and pets. Similar ideas often appear on Kickstarter, you can peep there.
  1. Find an unusual way to sell ads online. Focus on the crazy ideas of the guys from Captive Media, try to surpass Tittygram.
  2. Online restaurant. It's simple: a customer visits the site and orders food. You prepare the selected dishes, deliver to the specified place and set the table. You can add a webcam so that the client can watch the chef at work.
  3. Service for the paranoid. Create a resource with which users can anonymously store and transfer information, work on the Web and on a personal computer. Offer your audience a cloud service like Edward Snowden's hacker kit. Immediately think about how to convince clients that you are not from the CIA or the FSB.
  4. Monetize the need of smartphone and tablet owners to recharge their devices. You need devices that can be used to charge batteries in public places. For example, for the opportunity to feed a smartphone, ask the user to view ads, install an application, register on the site, etc.
  5. Remote caregiver search service. Sometimes parents do not have the strength, desire or ability to give their kids enough attention. In such cases, adults often slip a tablet or computer to the kids: look, they say, your cartoons, just leave me alone. If parents have money for a tablet and the Internet, let them fork out for an online educator who will teach the child something useful via Skype.
  6. Earn on Facebook. Opportunities to make money on the brainchild of Zuckerberg are a whole sea. We have found for you a selection of 7 ways to make money on Facebook.

This article could be titled "150...", "300..." or "100,500 Internet Business Ideas". In this case, you would have to read about online stores of toys, pottery and a hundred other types of goods. The same story would repeat itself with mobile applications, websites and web services. You can deal with the particulars of general ideas on your own, so there are practically no list of them.

Try the suggested ideas, share your experience. As usual, write comments, suggestions and additions in the comments to the article. Perhaps you have some crazy, unrealistic and unaffordable online business ideas? Tell about them.

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