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I have a similar question. I have been watching "Steve Blank's Customer development" type videoes on youtube lately. He pitches completely validate idea befo
by tkinom 12y ago
I have a similar question. I have been watching "Steve Blank's Customer development" type videoes on youtube lately. He pitches completely validate idea before writing a single line of code.
For successfully companies/products like dropbox, google, twitter, etc. What are the "right" questions/methods to "validate" the idea before the development - without developing the product and let the massive traction do the talking?
What are the name of any of "really" successfully product/company follow that method of "validating idea" before writing a single line of code?
- luckydata 12y agothrow that book away. The ideas sound good, but it's impossible to put them in practice and there's a lot of hindsight going on. I don't know of a single product in the world that reached any kind of market traction using that method to the letter.
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- staunch 12y agoNo, their trite re-branded conventional wisdom is of no use to you as a founder. Just look at the examples of people who have actually done it.
- coralreef 12y agoDrew mentions a bit about talking to potential customers before coding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908 To what extent, I do not know.
- ed 12y agoI actually think this is a good tactic. Basically you try to sell a product that doesn't exist to determine whether there's any demand. Off the top of my head I can think of at least 4 large ($50M+ acq. or valuation) teams that picked their products this way. It's pretty easy – build a well designed landing page describing the product, share it on HN/reddit/etc and gauge the response.