Daivik's Request for Startups
Some of the other ideas I can't stop thinking about
I was recently part of YC’s Spring Request for Startups, where I made the case for more Stablecoin Financial Services.
Stablecoins are still very much top of mind for me, but when you have been doing startups as long as I have, you come across some other pretty great ideas. Here are a few of the other ideas and spaces that I can’t stop thinking about.
Infrastructure for Robotics
Tesla recently announced that they are stopping Model S and X production at the Fremont Factory in favor of using the space to produce Tesla Bots. Although it makes sense when you look at relative sales of Model S and X to their other models, it was still shocking for many people. But it is indicative of how much belief Tesla and companies like Figure have in the future of robotics.
There is little doubt in my head that humanoid robots will surround us within the next decade. The implication of this is massive.
In the same way cars exploded and created a myriad of adjacent businesses, I see the exact same phenomenon happening with robotics. Robots will need repair shops that specialize in joint replacements and tuning. There will be centralized management platforms that companies deploy to ensure their robots follow whatever specifications their country lays out. Whether that is broadcast signals or actions authorized by local governments, someone has to build that infrastructure. It’s a whole industry that will develop rapidly and starting now just gives you a head start on everyone else.
Compliance as a Service
Building Shor, I have seen how painful financial compliance is for businesses, especially ones operating across multiple jurisdictions. The industry is still stitched together with spreadsheets, siloed tools, and expensive headcount. Companies hire Chief Compliance Officers and assemble stacks of point solutions just to understand what is happening under the hood. As businesses expand into new markets, the complexity compounds and the cost of staying compliant grows faster than revenue.
This is an AI-native problem. Most compliance work is monitoring regulatory changes, flagging anomalies, generating reports, and keeping audit trails. These are tasks AI can handle faster and cheaper than humans. Yet most solutions today are still built around manual workflows and human review bottlenecks.
The pain is especially acute for businesses navigating state-by-state licensing, renewal cycles, audits, and regulatory patchwork that varies wildly across jurisdictions. The current process is slow, fragmented, and expensive. It often requires dedicated legal teams just to maintain what you already have.
There is space for founders building compliance infrastructure that consolidates fragmented tools, reduces reliance on specialized headcount, and gives finance teams real-time visibility across regulatory regimes. The best version of this does not just automate existing processes. It rethinks what compliance operations look like when AI is the default.
The companies that get this right will become essential infrastructure for any business operating globally.
Tools for Vibe Coders
A couple of weeks ago, I met up with a non-technical friend and was astonished to see how many apps he was able to vibe code. They were well built and in a pre-AI era would have taken weeks even for experienced builders to create. Things have obviously drastically changed and a whole new group of people that were once limited are now able to build apps.
Despite the advancements however, there are some glaring limitations. The biggest one being configuring secure, scalable infrastructure properly. The most notable example of this was the rise and fall of the Tea App, which was riddled with security vulnerabilities shortly after launch.
This new group has different needs compared to tools made for traditional devs and requires thinking from their perspective. Beyond the vibe coding platforms themselves, there is space for plugins and integrations that help vibe coders safely get their apps to production.
Think about what happens when a vibe coder wants to accept payments. Today they have to figure out Stripe API keys, webhook configurations, and PCI compliance on their own. That is not a knowledge gap that a better tutorial solves. It requires an entirely different product that abstracts away the complexity while still doing things the right way under the hood.
The same applies to authentication, database setup, deployment, and monitoring. Whoever builds the connective tissue between vibe coding platforms and production-grade infrastructure will own a massive piece of this new ecosystem.
Lately it can feel like every startup idea is crowded or that most problems are already being effectively solved. But a lot of them just require either making a bet on where you think we are going or turning over a few rocks a couple layers deep. There are still thousands of great ideas that will lead to thousands of new unicorns popping up in the coming years.
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