> Use networking to determine how valuable the product is and if people give a damn about it. If no one wants to talk to you about it, no one is going to want to pay for it.
This is a key thing. A lot of developers operate in the belief that “if you build it they will come”.
A small amount of market validation would prevent a lot of wasted time.
- Do people have the problem you are solving?
- Are they willing to pay a sufficient amount to solve it?
- Are there enough of them to make it worthwhile?
The real danger is that we often don’t want to hear the answers to these questions. So we either don’t ask or we dismiss the answers that we get. Wishful thinking is a dangerous thing.
This is a key thing. A lot of developers operate in the belief that “if you build it they will come”.
A small amount of market validation would prevent a lot of wasted time.
- Do people have the problem you are solving?
- Are they willing to pay a sufficient amount to solve it?
- Are there enough of them to make it worthwhile?
The real danger is that we often don’t want to hear the answers to these questions. So we either don’t ask or we dismiss the answers that we get. Wishful thinking is a dangerous thing.