[mattbierner]

My problem: lots of ideas and enough technical skills to make them happen, no idea how to build any initial buzz even with an mvp. Even when I try researching upfront, asking friends and family about problems and potential solutions, most of the responses are like, “well that could be cool I guess.” I’m not sure if this is a sign that I haven’t been coming up with the right ideas, or iterating enough, or that I just suck a selling (or perhaps all three).

Any suggestions?

[hguhghuff]

I just don’t see the point in asking someone’s opinion.

To me the only thing that counts is how people respond to actual software, and even then it’s got to do what you envision the core functionality being.

I know everyone else disagrees but I think you basically got to build it to find out what people really think.

And even then the only real measure is whether they jump on it without much selling explaining or persuading.

But then again I’ve never succeeded so there you go I’m provably wrong.

[beaconstudios]

Let's find out - pitch me (either in here or to my email in my profile) and I'll tell you what my initial reaction and thoughts were. Pitching over text interface isn't as effective as in person but I can hopefully at least give you some idea.