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I'm curious - why hold back? Are you really testing natural demand or are you testing how strong your personal social network is? I fear that many founders aren
by ares2012 12y ago
I'm curious - why hold back? Are you really testing natural demand or are you testing how strong your personal social network is? I fear that many founders aren't willing to do whatever it takes to get to a meaningful number of customers/users and see if "natural demand" takes over. Many products require thousands of customers for any organic growth mechanisms to kick in.
- api 12y agoGood question. One reason is that I am not independently wealthy and haven't raised yet, so I just don't have a lot of disposable income for this. It's still too early to self-fund a large marketing push on its own, though if the graphs continue it might be able to in 6-12 months. The second reason is that yes, I did want to see if "natural demand" pulled at the product without me doing very much to promote it. I'd like to raise seed money, but I'm not excited about the prospect of raising a lot of other peoples' money and then finding out I have something nobody really wants. Good news is I've gotten enough signal to amount to a "yes, people do seem to want more of this."
- ares2012 12y agoAwesome, congrats! Sounds like you are on to something.