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People do not actually tell you the answer to a question like this. "Would you pay to use this new thing I made?" gets parsed into "are you a polite person and
by curuinor 4y ago
People do not actually tell you the answer to a question like this. "Would you pay to use this new thing I made?" gets parsed into "are you a polite person and not inclined to shit on a complete stranger's work?" and you will never get a straight answer, in the same general vein as corporate feasibility studies basically seldom ever returning a 'no, this isn't feasible'. I recommend r. fitzpatrick's book "the mom test" about that subject.
After people reply (if they reply) to this thing, you will have learned nothing about whether people would actually pay for it. Go and learn that fact in actual viable ways.
- curuinor 4y agoAlso, wrt the specific domain, multiple real estate markets throughout the world are choking to death by the very specific method of no transactions happening, chiefly mainland china but also all throughout the west.
- rdm_blackhole 4y agoThanks for your comment. I have heard about the book "the mom test" and plan to read it as it 's been recommended quite a few times to me already. I get this post was a long shot but the thread I was referring to got a few answers so I thought why not see what the HN community thinks of this idea? I am assuming that "Go and learn that fact in actual viable ways." means to release it and then go from there. I may just do that in the end. I simply did not want to spend more time than necessary on an idea that may be completely wrong.
- rozenmd 4y agoActually go and read The Mom Test before you build anything else, or try any further customer conversations. It'll save you a ton of time.