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Test the market (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by boybianchi@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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Hi all,

I learn a lot from these posts, but whenever i see people talking about testing the market, i wonder: how do you go about it?

What are your rules for 'good' market research? Do you hire agencies to do this? Do you do it yourselves?

Any info on this is much appreciated! Thank you.

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[–] Reasonable-Total7327@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

There is a great book about this called "Right It" by Alberto Savoia. One of the main points is that you need to get your own data and other people's data have very limited value. So, approaches like market research, hiring agencies, analysing competitors all sound like nice shortcuts to get the job done quickly but have a big risk of being misleading.

The "Right It" way is to define a hypothesis and go out and test it the easiest and cheapest way you can do. It sounds like more work but will give you additional insights from your target customers that will be most valuable to the idea you want to test and you can't find this information anywhere else because nobody else is trying exactly what you want to try.