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Another example of validating the idea/market before building the product. You don't even need to register a domain name. No CPC cost, just post on HN. Chris,

• chrismorgan 13y ago
  As a matter of fact, I have done a little building of the product and figuring out of other logistics such as payments (not so easy in Australia at the time I was planning it—the past couple of months have been marvellous for us with Pin and Braintree both dropping their monthly charges and Pin very easy to get started with), before I came to my senses and realised I should be validating it instead first. Frankly, my intent is to go ahead with it in some degree as a side-project whether I have an audience or not, because there are various things in it that I know I want that I haven't seen anywhere else in the couple of years that I've been vaguely planning it. A few enthusiastic people interested in it (and willing to pay for it) will change that so that I will probably make it the main project I work on, potentially skipping employment (I'm just about to finish my Bachelor of Software Engineering degree) while I try it out, instead of a side project which will take a few years to get to market if market there be. I'll be trying a different tack of HN posting tomorrow with a blog post on a related subject—I'll see how that goes too.