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You say your "product is partially complete", how did you get there without speaking to customers? If you've spent time on HN in the past, you've probably read
by pedalpete 6y ago
You say your "product is partially complete", how did you get there without speaking to customers? If you've spent time on HN in the past, you've probably read about speaking to customers before building, or building to solve your own problem.
Since you say you are offering ML models through a web-service, who else is doing that now? How do you think they find their customers? Can you leverage their customer base to find people that may be wiling to switch?
Step 1 is to identify who needs your product. Then find out where those people are. It's a bit more difficult with Covid due to lack of meetups, etc, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.
However, if I were you, I'd take a serious look at how you got to where you are? How did you build a product without knowing how you were going to get customers? How you are going to know if you've built the right product.
Rather than looking for "customers", at this point, I'd suggest looking for "advice", find somebody who has the problem, and show them your solution. Then ask them if it's something they need. If not, why not? Find out what they do need, etc etc.
Love the problem, not the solution.
- edmundsauto 6y agoSo much this. Who were you building it for? What are their problems, and why won't they pay you to solve it? Despite your progress on code, I would say you still only have an idea. A working idea, but you don't know if it's marketable. Read Steve Blank - get out of the building and talk to people. Right now, you don't seem to know exactly what the problem is you're solving.