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Most "startup idea" lists are guesses. Someone brainstorms fifty things that sound plausible, publishes them, and you have no way to know if a single one ever made a dollar.

ProvenStartups only publishes ideas that come with receipts. We dig through founder interviews, creator breakdowns, and case studies — hundreds of hours of video — transcribe them, and reverse-engineer what actually worked: the revenue, the team size, the acquisition channels, the pricing, the mistakes.

Every idea is labeled with its evidence level, from ✅ third-party-verified data down to 🔮 unverified potential. We'd rather tell you "this one is founder-claimed, not audited" than pretend everything is equally solid. The source video and captured transcript are attached to every breakdown, so you can check our work.

The goal: when you pick your next project, you start from something a real person already proved — then niche down, ship faster, and skip the graveyard of ideas nobody wanted.