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Landing pages, surveys, waitlists don't work anymore. Coding is a necessary part of validation. Give them something to touch and play with and they'll give you

by muzani 5y ago

Landing pages, surveys, waitlists don't work anymore. Coding is a necessary part of validation. Give them something to touch and play with and they'll give you more accurate feedback. Hackathon style coding is faster too. Make disposable prototypes. The best successes I've worked with have been 1. A keto recipe app with hardcoded recipes made in two weeks. Users told me the way I displayed it was confusing and that it needed carb counts. I did the fixes and they started throwing money at me. 2. A social media app for complaints. Turns out people wanted social media for a small area, e.g. everyone in an apartment area. It ended up being a visitor management/appointment kind of app with social media features.

nnurmanov 5y ago
I've started a similar to #2 web site for banks, it started with a customer suggestion that he wanted to have a system where he can track his complaints. I can see the reason, as the relationship with corporations reminds a black box, you throw an idea and get nothing in response. As I did not get any response from banks, I am now thinking to convert it into private communities around banks and have all the ideas and complaints in one place. I am hoping that when I manage to attract enough users the banks will come
- muzani 5y ago
  We actually had companies who were happy to use it to track/ticket complaints. For context, complaining on FB is really common here because it works, but it looks bad to have all these angry public complaints. You might want to look at that angle when pitching to banks - just screenshot complaints on social media, especially those that aren't tracked. Though for us, it's was probably that it wasn't profitable enough and there's another angle that was a burning problem for them. Social media is a surprisingly good platform as reacts are a better gauge of emotion than upvotes.

by muzani 5y ago

nnurmanov 5y ago

I've started a similar to #2 web site for banks, it started with a customer suggestion that he wanted to have a system where he can track his complaints. I can see the reason, as the relationship with corporations reminds a black box, you throw an idea and get nothing in response. As I did not get any response from banks, I am now thinking to convert it into private communities around banks and have all the ideas and complaints in one place. I am hoping that when I manage to attract enough users the banks will come

muzani 5y ago
We actually had companies who were happy to use it to track/ticket complaints. For context, complaining on FB is really common here because it works, but it looks bad to have all these angry public complaints. You might want to look at that angle when pitching to banks - just screenshot complaints on social media, especially those that aren't tracked. Though for us, it's was probably that it wasn't profitable enough and there's another angle that was a burning problem for them. Social media is a surprisingly good platform as reacts are a better gauge of emotion than upvotes.