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Would like to hear of an example where this worked. Even if I liked an idea someone pitched me on, I don't know if I'd give $10 to them to get early access to
by impostervt 14y ago
Would like to hear of an example where this worked. Even if I liked an idea someone pitched me on, I don't know if I'd give $10 to them to get early access to something they haven't started building yet.
Perhaps I'm jading at seeing too many bad Show HN posts where I think, who would want that?
- ef4 14y agoIt certainly works when you're selling to a business and you're showing how you can take away some real pain, or make them some real additional revenue. I have gone in with a demo and come away with a deal for real money. Then we built the real product around that customer's actual needs, which made it dramatically better than we could have by just guessing in advance how they would use it. Edit: Also see just about everything on Kickstarter, where people often pay real money for things that don't exist yet.
- totalrobe 14y agoThese things do exist - Kickstarter products are required to have prototypes and concrete deliverables.
- impostervt 14y agoCan you share some info on what you built?