Other posts are right that you may never know for certain until you actually make it, but there is plenty you can do to mitigate the risk. If you are going to b

Other posts are right that you may never know for certain until you actually make it, but there is plenty you can do to mitigate the risk. If you are going to build something with the goal of helping other people and not just yourself, you should be building and researching iteratively to prevent wasted time. Asking friends in your likely target audience is a good approach. There could be a few reasons why they aren't excited: - you are describing features rather than benefits - you haven't identified compelling benefits - you aren't successfully communicating compelling benefits - they aren't actually your target audience - the product idea actually is not very useful Don't worry - this is a much more challenging process than many people realize. Many potentially great products are shelved due to the challenges of identifying and communicating value. If you are very motivated to work on this, think a little harder on the problem you are solving and the benefits you want to provide. Value can in many cases be boiled down to providing an improvement in the experience of using the idea itself, and/or providing an improvement in helping get to a future state that the user wants to achieve. Hope this helps.