Just curios at the ways by which people looking to do a startup validate their initial ideas. "talking to friends", "google ads"?...
Ask HN: Validating your idea
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Re: Ask HN: Validating your idea
#2Have you read this article?
http://startupbound.com/how-i-quickly-test-and-validate-star...
Re: Ask HN: Validating your idea
#3Have you read this article? http://startupbound.com/how-i-quickly-test-and-validate-star...
no i havent, i'll check it out! Thanks
Re: Ask HN: Validating your idea
#4Have you read this article? http://startupbound.com/how-i-quickly-test-and-validate-star...
i think this is a pretty interesting way of validating but it involves spending some money which most people might not have. I was thinking more about the "out of the shower" aha moments where you really just want to get instant fly-or-die feedback...is it valuable to just go ahead a build an MVP or really try and talk to people about it to see if theres a need (although talk is really cheap, hence the need for an MVP)
Re: Ask HN: Validating your idea
#5Have you read this article? http://startupbound.com/how-i-quickly-test-and-validate-star...
i think this is a pretty interesting way of validating but it involves spending some money which most people might not have. I was thinking more about the "out of the shower" aha moments where you really just want to get instant fly-or-die feedback...is it valuable to just go ahead a build an MVP or really try and talk to people about it to see if theres a need (although talk is really cheap, hence the need for an MV…
From what I've read in blogs and The Lean Startup talking to the people you expect to use your product is the way to go. If you're selling an application for teachers aren't the teachers the people who will know if they'd use it (to an extent)?
Re: Ask HN: Validating your idea
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
i think this is a pretty interesting way of validating but it involves spending some money which most people might not have. I was thinking more about the "out of the shower" aha moments where you really just want to get instant fly-or-die feedback...is it valuable to just go ahead a build an MVP or really try and talk to people about it to see if theres a need (although talk is really cheap, hence the need for an MV…
From what I've read in blogs and The Lean Startup talking to the people you expect to use your product is the way to go. If you're selling an application for teachers aren't the teachers the people who will know if they'd use it (to an extent)?
Absolutely. The first thing you want to do is ask someone in the domain about the problem. Is it really a problem or is this a solution without a problem? At that point you can start figuring out how you're going to solve this problem, and doing your design and iteration.
If you end up with an idea first (because you always find ideas in the shower and very rarely problems), try to take a step back and figure out what the problem is that your idea is going to solve. From there you can do your iteration.
Re: Ask HN: Validating your idea
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From what I've read in blogs and The Lean Startup talking to the people you expect to use your product is the way to go. If you're selling an application for teachers aren't the teachers the people who will know if they'd use it (to an extent)?
Absolutely. The first thing you want to do is ask someone in the domain about the problem. Is it really a problem or is this a solution without a problem? At that point you can start figuring out how you're going to solve this problem, and doing your design and iteration. If you end up with an idea first (because you always find ideas in the shower and very rarely problems), try to take a step back and figure out wha…
really great feedback thanks. I'm just thinking of a quick way to get that idea to a diverse group of teachers ( for example ) and get feedback in real time as opposed to just the ones I know who are likely to just say "yeah we'd use it" so they can make me happy.
I was thinking of creating a service where you can blast out an idea. If enough people signup and maybe categorize themselves, you can possibly get valuable feedback on whatever idea you just had. What do you think?
Re: Ask HN: Validating your idea
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Absolutely. The first thing you want to do is ask someone in the domain about the problem. Is it really a problem or is this a solution without a problem? At that point you can start figuring out how you're going to solve this problem, and doing your design and iteration. If you end up with an idea first (because you always find ideas in the shower and very rarely problems), try to take a step back and figure out wha…
really great feedback thanks. I'm just thinking of a quick way to get that idea to a diverse group of teachers ( for example ) and get feedback in real time as opposed to just the ones I know who are likely to just say "yeah we'd use it" so they can make me happy. I was thinking of creating a service where you can blast out an idea. If enough people signup and maybe categorize themselves, you can possibly get valuabl…
In theory it sounds nice but in practice people may be hesitant to make their idea public to X number of strangers whom they've never met. You'd also need to find a wide range of domain experts to participate. What is their motivation?
Re: Ask HN: Validating your idea
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really great feedback thanks. I'm just thinking of a quick way to get that idea to a diverse group of teachers ( for example ) and get feedback in real time as opposed to just the ones I know who are likely to just say "yeah we'd use it" so they can make me happy. I was thinking of creating a service where you can blast out an idea. If enough people signup and maybe categorize themselves, you can possibly get valuabl…
In theory it sounds nice but in practice people may be hesitant to make their idea public to X number of strangers whom they've never met. You'd also need to find a wide range of domain experts to participate. What is their motivation?
LinkedIn could be used to facilitate this feedback loop.
Re: Ask HN: Validating your idea
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
In theory it sounds nice but in practice people may be hesitant to make their idea public to X number of strangers whom they've never met. You'd also need to find a wide range of domain experts to participate. What is their motivation?
LinkedIn could be used to facilitate this feedback loop.
hey! I'm curious as to how linkedin can be used...care to explain a little bit :)