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Keyur Ahuja's avatar

Great post as always, Nic!

I first stumbled across the accountability as a service idea on this reddit post:-

https://www.reddit.com/r/EntrepreneurRideAlong/comments/ppfoz2/three_business_ideas_inspired_by_the/

The service the post talks about can be found here:-

https://www.dip.chat/

Sadly, it is on hiatus as of now. You can read more below:-

https://www.indiehackers.com/product/dip-chat

But I strongly agree with Nic that there is a lot of potential in the idea as is evident by Y Combinator's recent backing of a service that is focused on directing accountability towards overcoming addiction

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/relay

https://www.joinrelay.app/

Relay depends upon a subscription model for monetization FYI

Even before Relay, upon researching upon this idea earlier on (and which might have inspired Relay's founders), I had also discovered the following apps in the past which focus on the same:-

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dietbet.app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stepbet.app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quitbet.app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waybetter.app

Feel free to check them out.

Hope this comment helps anyone interested in starting an accountability service idea... good luck!

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Nic Conley's avatar

Thanks Keyur! These are some awesome resources! Totally agree, it is do-able, but won't be easy to get things going off the bat. Another niche idea I like it an accountability service between Twitter users to grow their Twitter. Example: Pair two Twitter users that have the same amount of followers, and are looking to grow. Build out a roadmap plan for them to follow, and allow them to be accountability partners to each-other. I'm think I'll write about it in an upcoming post!

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Keyur Ahuja's avatar

Regarding growing following on Twitter, here's something I discovered some time ago!

https://www.producthunt.com/products/creatorscout

https://creatorscout.co/

The platform monetizes via promotions.

https://creatorscout.co/promote/

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