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Two problems: 1. Market: People don't know what they want til they see it. 2. Development: You don't know what problems your idea has (nor their solution) til
by 10ren 17y ago
Two problems:
1. Market: People don't know what they want til they see it.
2. Development: You don't know what problems your idea has (nor their solution) til you see it.
It's an entrancing dream to anticipate all this stuff, which is what corporate new market development and new product development is all about. It's hardly effective (that's not how that corporation began anyway) - plus they are better at it than you.
Build your idea, hacker. Build it, and gaze upon reality!
- Mz 17y ago"Market: People don't know what they want til they see it." Ditto that. If people could figure out for themselves what would solve the issue they had, then they wouldn't need a start-up to provide it. "Development: You don't know what problems your idea has (nor their solution) til you see it." The military has some saying along the lines of "No battle plan survives the first engagement." And Bill Gates has said "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." For me, three years of talking to people online with little in the way of results has convinced me that there is a huge information gap and this is what I need to overcome. But no one could "tell" me that. I just had to figure out why I am getting such poor reception (and so much hostility) for a solution to a problem that everyone desperately wants fixed. The solution I offer doesn't fit with their concept of what a solution should look like and they can't wrap their brains around it. There are two types of people who are relatively more receptive. Both groups are intrinsically less accepting of current dogma than is typical.