Great idea! May I suggest adding http://metatags.io/ for prettier looks when sharing?
Show HN: A site to help you validate ideas in bulk
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the input! Sorry you feel that way. I don't think I'd agree with your sentiment. I think it's a bad idea to build a whole product and spend potentially months or years before even knowing if people like your product.
Bad for the startup that builds the wrong product, but good for the consumer. Why should the consumer have to constantly suffer through a parade of fake ads for fake startups that don’t really know what consumers want and just want to try a bunch of things and see what shit sticks? I used to buy stuff from Instagram ads, but now it’s littered with companies putting up ads for a bunch of random Chinese crap they can f…
In aggregate, consumers benefit from lower cost to bring products to market, which this is trying to do.
Personally, you may know a friend or family member who wasted a lot of time on a bad idea or possibly hurt themselves financially. Many people, like me, do. It hurts to see. So consumers benefit if their loved ones who are entrepreneurs can avoid making some bad business decisions by getting information earlier.
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#33Great idea! May I suggest adding http://metatags.io/ for prettier looks when sharing?
Thanks! This is something we're working on as we speak.
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#34Reminds me of https://www.launchrock.com/ which was focused on collecting contact info as part of the validation process.
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#35Looks cool! I think this could be really useful for determining which of the pile of ideas I have at the back of my head it would be useful to focus on.
Though, as someone else mentioned, I always have this fear of my idea getting stealed :). I know it's quite irrational, but well.
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#36How do you prevent people stealing other’s ideas? I feel it’s risky to post your possibly-millions-worth business idea in the Internet.
Easy. Ask visitors to sign NDA first.
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#37This is neat but totally leads to false "validation". This is slightly better than just getting an email. Product Market fit (or even Problem Market fit) is more than someone just imagining their future best self as being interested.
True validation has the prospect part with something of value, real value, not just an email.
Like, give me $100 and I'll tell you how I've boot strapped a company now worth $4MM. Or I'll tell you how my previous company took $50k investment and grew to be worth $60MM.
Only folks really interested in the problem space would part with something of value today for a solution tomorrow.
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#38Maybe sell the are you interested button? instead and manage the analytics.. I would want to run this from different domains.
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#39I know people don't like to talk about astroturfing, but this is pretty blatant.
All these are four months old with only a few comments, yet have short generic positive comments here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=asadawadia
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=emosenkis
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SMAAART
14 days old with one comment that is the same thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xobetty
1 hour ago with the same type of comment https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cornychonay
First comment in 6 years to say "clever idea" https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dan301
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#40Are you interested in a cure for cancer, eternal life or free energy?