- Cuddle Buddy – Hire a professional cuddle buddy to lay with you at night. Great for widows, insomniacs and children without parents.
- Application like siri that actually has your best interests in mind. Easy to talk to and responds when you ask it anything. Call it – PAL
- VR Bars – Rent a room that has a robotic bar, put on the VR set and sit with your friends from across the world in what looks like the same venue. Great for catching up.
- The Lonely Ping – For people in big cities, create a profile, and go to a coffee shop, lounge, bar, etc. Leave your pinger on and other people around you can see if you are in the talkative mood or not. Makes it easier to approach and make new friends
- Glow – write down why you are feeling lonely and leave it in the open, anyone that has the app can come to you and have a conversation about whats bothering you or what you have liked on your profile.
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1) Lonely adventures. A travel group that gives free, exciting and well designed vacations for people who suffer from depression.
2) Startup dorms. Dormitories where startup founders can move to love for free, and be around their startup tribe, in exchange for equity in their company.
3) Lonely tours. Similar to the vacation, it’s a single day adventure for people with depression, taking place in their city.
4) Low cost workout classes/trainers for people with depression. Working out has been clinically shown to treat depression.
5) If it’s true that certain hallucinogenic substances help alleviate depression, then guided VR tripping sessions. A VR guide walks you through your trip, with the focus of curing the depression. The unit reacts to your specific body language to adapt to your experience as it’s happening.