i feel like when you're starting out you can have all these assumptions but they really don't mean sh*t until you actually starting talking to people.
it's one of the reasons i think ideas are useless, but what you do with them that matters more.
like i built this investment tracking platform a couple years ago that i thought had some really nice features. but really i was just building what i thought was cool and not what people actually needed.
took me like 6 months to realise that though so it did hurt a bit. things like startupschool and ideahub help though.
now everything i do i literally wont build anything until i have at least 100 people on a waitlist that i can draw information out of.
basically saves you that first 3 months where you've built something but have no idea if people actually want it or not.
great post.
i feel like when you're starting out you can have all these assumptions but they really don't mean sh*t until you actually starting talking to people.
it's one of the reasons i think ideas are useless, but what you do with them that matters more.
like i built this investment tracking platform a couple years ago that i thought had some really nice features. but really i was just building what i thought was cool and not what people actually needed.
took me like 6 months to realise that though so it did hurt a bit. things like startupschool and ideahub help though.
now everything i do i literally wont build anything until i have at least 100 people on a waitlist that i can draw information out of.
basically saves you that first 3 months where you've built something but have no idea if people actually want it or not.