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This is so true, * Build what people are asking for.

• achillesheels 6y ago
  And what is taken for granted is that it requires time and effort to get people to ask. Meaning, go to market ASAP!
  • bob33212 6y ago
    I think this is where "Fake it until you make it" is a good idea. If you have any product at all and a decent website you can hopefully at least get people to talk to you and they will ask if your product can do X,Y,Z. Even if your product is pretty basic you can at least tell them that you would like to learn more about X,Y,Z so that you can build that and be ready to say yes to the next potential customer who has the same question. This is probably a better approach than calling up CEOs and asking "What are your problems?" They have 1 million problems. You need to start with a MVP and ask what problems they have which seems somewhat related to the MVP
    • achillesheels 6y ago
      Even "basic" can get muddled with hopefulness about product features which are carts leading horses. To continue with the metaphor, chasing carrots before the horse-cart even functions leads to half-baked software.
• tomnipotent 6y ago
  And make sure it's not your CEO or other internal staff that inadvertently become your customer - then you end up building for people in the office, vs. your actual customer.