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Don't code, validate your ideas first (to first 1000 paying customers if monetization motivates) and 99% is not even worth to be started with, life is just too

Don't code, validate your ideas first (to first 1000 paying customers if monetization motivates) and 99% is not even worth to be started with, life is just too short for that. With AI there's nothing to be ashamed of as it is "what you can dream of, you can get today". There's not much left in programming in most of the projects (that are just repeated code, output, what not over and over) after AI , tools are just too powerful today.

rcfox 1y ago
How do you validate an idea with 1000 paying customers if you don't have a product?
- totaa 1y ago
  landing page / waitlist / speaking with customers you shouldn't write code until you know someone is willing to buy i'd say somewhere between 20 < n < 100 for B2B makes sense, rather than 1000
  - shoemakersteve 1y ago
    > you shouldn't write code until you know someone is willing to buy This is kind of a weird line to see in a thread where people are talking about coding for the joy of the craft. Also makes me think about where we would be if everyone who contributed to OSS projects over the years thought this way. And to be clear, I'm not shunning or criticizing, having this mindset is totally fine and I'm sure it does well for you personally.
    - sanderjd 1y ago
      Yeah it's just a totally different thing than what the thread starter was talking about. This may be good advice for bootstrapping a business (though personally I feel like people who do this are being pretty hostile to their customers by pretending something exists when it doesn't at all, which is not to say it isn't effective) but it is just irrelevant to someone wanting to build something for themselves.
  - coffeefirst 1y ago
    So that's where all the fake "coming soon" products that don't actually exist are coming from...
brulard 1y ago
This is so much out of touch with reality. You somehow assume OP is interested only in profitable projects and that idea validation is easy. It's not. For technical person it is much easier to code a prototype/mvp than to try to get potential paying customers by any other fake landing page means. 1000 customers? You are dreaming.

rcfox 1y ago

How do you validate an idea with 1000 paying customers if you don't have a product?

totaa 1y ago
landing page / waitlist / speaking with customers you shouldn't write code until you know someone is willing to buy i'd say somewhere between 20 < n < 100 for B2B makes sense, rather than 1000
- shoemakersteve 1y ago
  > you shouldn't write code until you know someone is willing to buy This is kind of a weird line to see in a thread where people are talking about coding for the joy of the craft. Also makes me think about where we would be if everyone who contributed to OSS projects over the years thought this way. And to be clear, I'm not shunning or criticizing, having this mindset is totally fine and I'm sure it does well for you personally.
  - sanderjd 1y ago
    Yeah it's just a totally different thing than what the thread starter was talking about. This may be good advice for bootstrapping a business (though personally I feel like people who do this are being pretty hostile to their customers by pretending something exists when it doesn't at all, which is not to say it isn't effective) but it is just irrelevant to someone wanting to build something for themselves.
- coffeefirst 1y ago
  So that's where all the fake "coming soon" products that don't actually exist are coming from...

brulard 1y ago

This is so much out of touch with reality. You somehow assume OP is interested only in profitable projects and that idea validation is easy. It's not. For technical person it is much easier to code a prototype/mvp than to try to get potential paying customers by any other fake landing page means. 1000 customers? You are dreaming.