Disease Outbreak Tracker

Public health concerns around outbreaks (hantavirus, etc.) create demand for real-time tracking tools. Build a dashboard that aggregates outbreak data, risk zones, and preventative guidance by location. Target: travelers, health workers, and government agencies.

Real-time disease surveillance has seen renewed institutional interest post-COVID, and sporadic outbreaks like mpox and H5N1 keep the category salient, but the data aggregation problem here is harder than it looks — WHO, CDC, and ProMED already publish this data publicly, and HealthMap has been doing automated outbreak aggregation since 2006. The revenue band is plausible only if government or NGO contracts anchor it, since travelers won't pay subscription rates and health workers operate within institutional procurement cycles that are slow and painful for a solo founder. The single biggest risk is that the core data is free, authoritative sources are trusted, and there's no obvious insight layer that justifies a paywall — without proprietary data or a genuinely differentiated analytical angle, this becomes a prettier UI on top of something people already use for free.