App Ideas
7 app ideas generated from real business problems. Each idea groups related complaints into a product concept with features, target users, and a revenue model.
PrepSync Curriculum Builder
Teachers with multiple preps lack structured, adaptable curriculum tools. This app auto-generates pacing guides and lesson plans that adapt to changing assignments.
“High school chemistry teacher needs a structured tool to make students create specific, date- and topic-based study plans for finals instead of vague intentions.”
“Middle school teacher has a daily 30-minute block with no structured curriculum and seeks low-prep activities to fill the time meaningfully.”
CurriculumCraft
A platform that provides standards-aligned, customizable curriculum templates to reduce teachers' unpaid lesson planning time while protecting their intellectual property.
“Teacher needs to prepare multiple months of curriculum materials (summer reading checks and writing warm-ups) before school starts but finds the process slow and time-consuming.”
“Teachers spend excessive unpaid time after school on lesson planning, creating question papers, and updating records, leading to burnout.”
CurriculumWorks
Teachers waste hours piecing together fragmented digital and print materials. This opportunity provides a unified platform to plan, store, and adapt flexible curriculum that works seamlessly across digital and paper formats.
“A first-year teacher creating multiple math courses from scratch for summer school lacks ready-made, engaging activities and materials.”
“Teacher transitioning from elementary to high school lacks age-appropriate classroom resources, lesson plans, and decor.”
CurriShare
Teachers lack a centralized system to create, align, and share curriculum materials across courses and grades. Current solutions are either too rigid or rely on voluntary sharing, leading to inconsistent quality, outdated content, and teacher burnout.
“Teachers are expected to overcome deep societal and educational deficits in a 50-minute class with no effective support, while schools waste money on ineffective third-party solutions.”
“Teacher struggles to engage students who have shifted to short-form digital media consumption, but is forced to use outdated teaching methods and materials that no longer resonate.”
NovelReader: Differentiated Class Reads
Elementary teachers need a reading curriculum that allows whole-class novel studies while differentiating instruction for diverse reading levels. Current rigid, Lexile-focused materials stifle engagement and fail to support shared literary experiences.
“Elementary teachers are forced to use rigid reading curricula that ignore the value of whole-class novel studies due to an overemphasis on Lexile levels.”
“High school English teachers are given no curriculum, lesson plans, or instructional materials and must create everything from scratch.”
GradeFlex Curriculum Builder
A tool that helps teachers in under-resourced schools quickly generate adaptable lesson plans and materials for uncertain grade combinations, ensuring curriculum alignment and reducing burnout.
“Teacher in Title I district lacks a ready-made curriculum and feels they are coasting, creating everything from scratch and losing confidence.”
“ESL teacher with inconsistent student groups and no collaboration struggles to create original lessons and assessments from scratch.”
MathCollab: Problem Exchange
Teachers lack a curated platform for multi-stage, curriculum-aligned problems. This app enables collaborative creation and sharing of real-world math problems linked to standards.
“Students struggle to identify the correct math operation to use for mole ratio calculations in chemistry.”
“Math teachers need to create multiple versions of the same worksheet for different students to prevent cheating, but lack an efficient tool for this.”