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28 App Ideas You Can Ship With Converge
28 practical app ideas you can build quickly in Converge, powered by ready-to-go components.
Dan Cleary
Founder
February 3, 2026
Want app ideas that feel shippable and actually useful? This is a list of real app ideas you can build with Converge—things people would pay for, use daily, or share.
Each idea includes a description, the business model, the Converge components you'll use, and an example prompt you can drop straight into Converge.
App ideas
1) Local Service Dispatch Assistant
An AI agent that takes inbound service requests, asks follow-up questions, and books jobs on a live map of available technicians. Charge per booked job or a monthly seat fee for teams managing routes, with Stripe handling subscriptions and payments.
Ready-to-go components
StripeExample prompt
"Build a dispatcher agent that asks for service type, urgency, and address, then shows a live map of available technicians and lets customers book with payment."
2) Customer Support AI
An AI agent that answers customer questions using your knowledge base, escalates to email when it can't help, and sends scheduled follow-ups to check satisfaction. Charge per resolved ticket or a flat monthly fee—companies pay to reduce support headcount without sacrificing response quality.
Ready-to-go components
ResendExample prompt
"Build a support bot that answers questions from our docs, escalates via email when confidence is low, and schedules a follow-up 24 hours later to confirm the issue is resolved."
3) Fleet Tracker
Real-time map showing driver locations with live presence indicators. Customers get automated SMS updates as deliveries progress. Charge per driver seat or per delivery—logistics companies need visibility without building custom infra.
Ready-to-go components
TwilioExample prompt
"Show all active drivers on a map with real-time location updates and send an SMS to customers when their driver is 10 minutes away."
4) AI Marketing Studio
Generate social media images and ad creatives on demand. Store everything in a library, run scheduled batch generations, and charge credits via Stripe. Use usage-based pricing (credits per image) or monthly subscription tiers—marketing teams burn through creative assets constantly.
Ready-to-go components
Nano BananaExample prompt
"Let users describe a social post, generate the image with AI, save it to their library, and run a scheduled job every Monday that generates 5 variations of the weekly promo graphic."
5) Social Listening Bot
Monitor Twitter, Reddit, and Hacker News for brand or keyword mentions. AI summarizes sentiment and flags urgent threads you should respond to. Offer subscription tiers by keyword count—PR teams and founders pay to catch fires early.
Ready-to-go components
FirecrawlExample prompt
"Scrape Twitter and Reddit every hour for mentions of our brand, summarize sentiment with AI, and alert me on the dashboard when a post has negative sentiment and more than 50 upvotes."
6) Appointment Booking System
Customers pick a time slot, see the venue on a map, pay a deposit, and get SMS/email reminders. Calendars update instantly when slots fill thanks to Convex reactive queries. Charge a per-booking fee or monthly subscription—salons, clinics, and consultants all need this.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Build a booking page with real-time availability that updates as slots fill, send an SMS reminder 2 hours before the appointment, and collect a deposit via Stripe."
7) Property Management Portal
List rental properties on a map, store leases and documents, schedule rent reminders, and collect payments online. Vacancy status updates in real time. Charge a percentage of rent collected or a flat fee per unit—landlords and property managers need consolidated tools.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Show all properties on a map with real-time vacancy status, and on the 1st of each month send rent reminder emails and generate a Stripe invoice for each tenant."
8) Team Async Standup
Daily prompts go out on a schedule, team members respond async, and AI summarizes responses into a digest. See who's submitted in real time with live presence. Charge per-seat monthly pricing—remote teams pay to skip meetings without losing visibility.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Every morning at 9am, email each team member asking what they're working on, then at 10am summarize all responses into a digest with AI and show who's submitted in real time."
9) Competitor Price Tracker
Monitor competitor pricing across multiple e-commerce sites and alert when prices drop below or rise above your thresholds. Track price history with charts. E-commerce brands pay to stay competitive without manual checking. Charge per product tracked or flat monthly per competitor.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Scrape competitor product pages every 6 hours, store price history, alert via email when a price drops by 10% or more, and show price trends on a dashboard."
10) Lead Generation Engine
Scrape business directories, company websites, and professional networks for contact information. Build targeted prospect lists filtered by industry, location, company size. AI enriches leads with company details and filters by quality. B2B sales teams pay per lead or monthly subscription for unlimited searches.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Scrape company websites and directories for businesses in the SaaS industry with 50-200 employees, extract contact info, enrich with AI-generated company summaries, and charge per lead export via Stripe."
11) Content Change Monitor
Track competitor blogs, pricing pages, terms of service, or legal documents for updates. Get instant alerts when changes are detected with AI-generated summaries of what changed. Marketing teams and legal departments pay to stay informed without manual checking. Charge per page monitored.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Monitor 10 competitor pricing pages daily, detect when content changes, have AI summarize what changed, and send an alert email with before/after comparison."
12) Product Review Aggregator
Scrape reviews from Amazon, Reddit, YouTube, and forums for any product. AI analyzes thousands of reviews to summarize overall sentiment, common complaints, and feature requests. Brands use this for product research and reputation monitoring. Charge per product report or monthly for ongoing monitoring.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Scrape reviews for a product from Amazon, Reddit, and YouTube, have AI categorize feedback into pros/cons/feature requests, generate a sentiment summary report, and charge per report via Stripe."
13) Course Platform Builder
Instructors upload course materials, AI helps structure lessons and generate quizzes, students progress through modules with real-time tracking, and certificates are auto-sent upon completion. AI grades assignments, suggests improvements, adapts difficulty based on performance, and generates course thumbnails and lesson visuals. Charge per course creator, per student enrolled, or take a percentage of course sales via Stripe.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Let instructors upload PDFs and videos, have AI generate a course outline with quiz questions and course thumbnails, track student progress through modules, grade AI-generated tests, and send a certificate via email when they score 80% or higher on the final."
14) HackerNews Launch Monitor
Track your Show HN post in real-time, get instant alerts when someone asks a question, and let AI suggest replies based on your product docs. Founders obsess over launch day—this keeps them responsive without constant refreshing. Charge one-time per launch or monthly for ongoing monitoring.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Monitor my Show HN post for new comments every 2 minutes, send me an alert when someone asks a question, and suggest a reply using our product docs for context."
15) Competitor Launch Tracker
Monitor Product Hunt, HackerNews, and startup directories for competitor launches. AI summarizes their positioning and tracks traction signals like upvotes, comments, and engagement. Stay aware without constant checking. Monthly subscription.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Check Product Hunt and HackerNews daily for launches in the 'developer tools' category, summarize their pitch and early traction, and email me a weekly digest."
16) Early Customer CRM
Lightweight CRM for your first 100 customers before you need Salesforce. Track conversations across email, Twitter, and HackerNews, AI flags power users and feature requests, scheduled follow-ups for churn risk. Charge per customer or flat monthly pricing.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Let me log customer conversations with screenshots, use AI to flag power users and common feature requests, and remind me to follow up with customers who haven't engaged in 30 days."
17) Personal Code Snippet Library
Save code snippets with tags and descriptions, full-text search across everything, and let AI suggest similar snippets when you describe what you need. Like a personal Stack Overflow that actually knows your stack.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Let me save code snippets with tags and descriptions, search across all of them with full-text search, and have AI suggest similar snippets when I describe what I'm trying to do."
18) Changelog Generator
Paste git commits or manually add updates, AI drafts changelog entries grouped by feature/fix/breaking changes, stores history, and generates a public changelog page. Charge per project or usage-based pricing.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Let me paste commit messages or describe updates, have AI categorize them as features/fixes/breaking changes, draft changelog entries, and generate a public changelog page."
19) Product Mockup Generator
Upload a logo or design and AI generates realistic mockups—your brand on t-shirts, office settings, coffee mugs, billboards, and packaging. Perfect for agencies pitching clients or dropshippers previewing products without inventory. Charge per mockup pack or monthly subscription for unlimited generations.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Let users upload a logo, generate mockups of it on t-shirts, mugs, business cards, and in office environments, save to a gallery, and charge credits per mockup set via Stripe."
20) Virtual Home Staging
Real estate agents upload empty room photos and AI generates fully furnished versions in different styles—modern, rustic, minimalist, luxury. Helps properties sell faster without physical staging costs. Charge per property, per room, or monthly for agencies managing multiple listings.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Let agents upload room photos, select a style (modern, rustic, minimalist), generate staged versions with furniture and decor, and charge per room or per property via Stripe."
21) Social Media Thumbnail Factory
Content creators describe their video topic and AI generates eye-catching thumbnails with bold text overlays and attention-grabbing visuals. Store thumbnail history, track which styles perform best. Monthly subscription for unlimited thumbnails—YouTubers and podcasters need dozens per month.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Ask creators for video topic and mood, generate 3 thumbnail variations with text overlays, store in their library, and offer a monthly plan for unlimited generations."
22) Event Invitation Designer
Describe your event (wedding, birthday, baby shower, corporate) and AI generates custom invitation designs matching the theme. Users tweak colors and text, then download print-ready files. Freemium with premium templates and formats, or charge per invitation set.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Ask about event type, theme, and guest details, generate 3 invitation designs, let users customize text and colors, and charge for premium templates or high-res downloads."
23) Docs to Markdown Converter
Chrome extension that converts any documentation page to clean markdown with one click. Right-click on docs pages, select "Copy as Markdown," and AI strips out navigation, ads, and formatting cruft—leaving just the content ready to paste into Claude or ChatGPT. Store conversion history and search past conversions. Free with optional pro tier for batch conversions.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Build a Chrome extension where users right-click on any page and select 'Copy as Markdown,' AI cleans up the content and removes navigation elements, copy clean markdown to clipboard, and store conversion history searchable by URL or content."
24) Research Clipper with AI
Highlight text on any webpage, clip it to your personal research library with AI-generated tags and summary. Search across all your clips later by topic, source, or content. Perfect for researchers, writers, and students building knowledge bases from web content. Freemium or subscription model.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Build a Chrome extension where users highlight text and click 'Clip,' AI generates tags and a summary, store in their searchable library with source URL, and let them search across all clips with full-text search."
Fun / consumer ideas
These might not make millions, but they're useful, fun to build, and good portfolio pieces.
25) Meal Planner
Tell it your dietary preferences and it generates a weekly meal plan with a grocery list every Sunday. Everyone asks "what should I eat this week?"—this answers it and saves grocery store wandering.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Ask me about dietary restrictions, generate a 7-day meal plan with recipes, and every Sunday at 9am send me a consolidated grocery list."
26) AI Workout Generator
Tell it your equipment and fitness goals, get a workout. Optionally sends you a new routine on a schedule. No more Googling "dumbbell only workout" or paying for fitness apps—just describe what you have.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Ask what equipment I have and my fitness goals, generate a workout with sets and reps, and send me a new routine every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday."
27) Gift Idea Tracker
Log gift ideas year-round when someone mentions something they want, get reminders before birthdays and holidays, and track what you've already given. AI suggests refined gift ideas based on their interests and past mentions. Solves "I never know what to get them" by capturing ideas in the moment.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Let me log gift ideas for people throughout the year, send me reminders 2 weeks before their birthday with suggestion summaries, and track what I've already given so I don't repeat."
28) Date Night Randomizer
Pick a vibe (chill, adventurous, foodie), and it suggests date ideas near you with directions. Solves the "I don't know, what do you want to do?" problem—good for couples or friend groups.
Ready-to-go components
Example prompt
"Ask for our vibe tonight, suggest 3 date ideas within 20 minutes of our location, and show the top pick on a map with directions and an option to shuffle for more."