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In practice it's not that easy. For example, you might have a problem that is worth solving just for yourself alone. In that case, you might wonder if it's wor
by m0wer 3y ago
In practice it's not that easy.
For example, you might have a problem that is worth solving just for yourself alone. In that case, you might wonder if it's worth creating a web UI around it or a simple script suffices. That depends on other people being interested on it or not.
Another case could be that you want to learn more about the problem before designing the solution. Should you really create a bad solution just to get in contact with the people that have that problem?
It's usually easier when people reach out to you for help with a problem they're desperate about. Instead of you cold-emailing randomly.
That's more or less the spirit of starting just with a landing page.
What's your opinion?
- palata 3y agoMy experience is that I have been in companies where some people were spending a ton of time doing that kind of "clever tricks", and it never brought anything at all. My opinion is that it must be hard to get visibility for a landing page to a product that does not exist. Side-effect: I don't believe anything businesses say unless I can see an actual product, because such marketing schemes trained me to be suspicious of everything. Businesses lie, except when they don't (which is rare).
- m0wer 3y agoMy experience is that having an actual product can also not bring anything at all. So maybe this kind of landing page “trick” can't bring you too far. But it can definitely help to see if there's someone interested at all. Today, the landing generator service page has gotten ten-ish emails. For a product that doesn't exist and for someone without an audience (me). Another one I have has gotten 0. I'm also suspicious of things like this as a user, but apparently not everyone is. Specially people that are really interested.
- palata 3y ago> I'm also suspicious of things like this as a user, but apparently not everyone is. Specially people that are really interested. With tools like this, they will learn soon enough :-).