“Building a product to fit an existing market, is better than finding a market to fit an existing product.” - Unfortunately not my quote!
How to test whether your idea has a market
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Re: How to test whether your idea has a market
#12Isn't this preciously what Kickstarter [http://www.kickstarter.com/] is for?
Re: How to test whether your idea has a market
#13If you can get someone to pay you $10 for an application you may or may not build in a year then you are either a hell of a salesman or you found someone truly gullible.
Re: How to test whether your idea has a market
#14Would like to hear of an example where this worked. Even if I liked an idea someone pitched me on, I don't know if I'd give $10 to them to get early access to something they haven't started building yet. Perhaps I'm jading at seeing too many bad Show HN posts where I think, who would want that?
It certainly works when you're selling to a business and you're showing how you can take away some real pain, or make them some real additional revenue. I have gone in with a demo and come away with a deal for real money. Then we built the real product around that customer's actual needs, which made it dramatically better than we could have by just guessing in advance how they would use it. Edit: Also see just about…
Can you share some info on what you built?