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Good for you man. I don’t really see much about customer pain points though. If people aren’t in pain they aren’t going to buy / use your stuff. Take the pro
by xivzgrev 5y ago
Good for you man. I don’t really see much about customer pain points though.
If people aren’t in pain they aren’t going to buy / use your stuff.
Take the product job board. At first I thought it was product manager jobs, but doesn’t that already exist? Then after seeing accounts payable and other stuff I realized you meant tech, which also exists already. So why would people use yours?
Your startup HAS to solve something better than existing solutions. For example
-Uber was a taxi, but cheaper and much better
-Facebook was MySpace but geared toward your in person friends / clean interface. Turns out people preferred not having to customize their page
-TikTok was vine but done way better. Its learning algorithm is unbelievable, it leans into Adding music which makes everything more fun, etc. it’s a markedly better way for people to express themselves
The one project you build for yourself, the metronome, already had a solution you discovered after you started building
So I’d really spend some time on the problem first. Read the lean startup. Talk to customers. And figure out if a project is actually a smart bet. Your product has to be markedly better for some group of customers - if it’s just a little better, people aren’t going to switch