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I think it really depends on what you are planning to build. For my last project (B2B) I spoke with lots of potential customers on a casual basis. Once we dete

I think it really depends on what you are planning to build. For my last project (B2B) I spoke with lots of potential customers on a casual basis. Once we determined there was indeed market interest, we did more in depth surveying and evaluations to determine the most important features and what pain points the customers really were looking to solve. For my current project which is consumer focused, I have had lots of casual conversations and I record the input from them into a quick document I use to track, suggestions, concerns, and both positive and negative feedback. The hard part is that without a live product (we are in development) talking about things like: Would you pay for this? If so how much?, Do you think this would help you?, are just hypothetical and we find it hard to really judge by answers if the idea is truly validated. Hopefully when we rollout the private beta of our MVP we can do more in depth usage analysis and collect more accurate feedback.

JonathanWCurd 16y ago
On the flip side I do know that I currently use the pre-release version of our product and it has solved the problem we were aiming to solve for myself and our other team members. Hopefully this is an indication we are on the right track (fingers crossed).
acconrad 16y ago
While I appreciate the advice, the point of the ask hn was to disclose numbers, so " a lot" doesn't help me much :)
- JonathanWCurd 16y ago
  For the B2B project I would estimate between 10-15 clients before we committed ourselves, and once we had that info we surveyed about 25 potential customers (10-15 of which were in the first casual group).
- JonathanWCurd 16y ago
  For my current project I have spoken with at least 50 people. based on the recorded feedback I have. I would estimate about half the people I talk to have something to say either positive, negative, or both. But we haven't done anything in depth or official for this consumer product.

JonathanWCurd 16y ago

On the flip side I do know that I currently use the pre-release version of our product and it has solved the problem we were aiming to solve for myself and our other team members. Hopefully this is an indication we are on the right track (fingers crossed).

acconrad 16y ago

While I appreciate the advice, the point of the ask hn was to disclose numbers, so " a lot" doesn't help me much :)

JonathanWCurd 16y ago
For the B2B project I would estimate between 10-15 clients before we committed ourselves, and once we had that info we surveyed about 25 potential customers (10-15 of which were in the first casual group).
JonathanWCurd 16y ago
For my current project I have spoken with at least 50 people. based on the recorded feedback I have. I would estimate about half the people I talk to have something to say either positive, negative, or both. But we haven't done anything in depth or official for this consumer product.