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Out of all the ycombinator apps so far, which would you say satisfy number 1? The only one that falls into that category for me, amusingly, is this site.
by trapper 18y ago
Out of all the ycombinator apps so far, which would you say satisfy number 1? The only one that falls into that category for me, amusingly, is this site.
- furiouslol 18y agoEven youtube doesn't satisfy No. 1 in the early years when there weren't much interesting videos in their database.
- trapper 18y agoYes, but hotmail, gmail, gdocs, skype, firefox, delicious, flickr et al did from word go. Once you started, you never stopped. By all accounts youtube was lucky, got momentum at the right time and struck it rich. It could have been many of the other similar sites in the same position. I'm not saying its easy to develop something a user would jump off a cliff for, more the contrary. People say it like it's easy, iv'e been doing my own startups for 5+ years now and still don't have one, but i'm working on it just like everyone else here I suppose!
- webwright 18y agoThere are lots of ways to prove that people want something. The best is (obviously) to launch something lovable. ;-) We proved it by launching a "coming soon" page with a form to submit your email addy to hear about the launch. We had a 25%+ conversion rate on that form and got thousands of email addys. Another way to prove it is to show 3 or 4 apps that do something similar that SUCK, but people use them/pay for them anyway. And there's plain ol' market research.