[daleholborow]

It's amazing how many people e stumble across the Ask HN and manage to navigate the sign-up-and-post procedure but fail to grasp how Google works. Here's some suggested search terms "mvp" , "proof of concept", "how do I validate my idea", or perhaps "is there anyone out there who can help me Google"?

[yesenadam]

> It's amazing how many people e stumble across the Ask HN and manage to navigate the sign-up-and-post procedure but fail to grasp how Google works.

That's 100% unhelpful, unkind snark. I see from your recent comment history you've a habit of responding meanly to questions you don't think are good. Please stop doing that.

[daleholborow]

Adam, the value of a community is somewhat diminished, in my opinion, if it's encouraged to lazily throw your problems up in the air and yell "does anyone know the answer to my question" before they've made even a cursory attempt to research or solve the problem themselves. Why on earth pollute a forum with more noise?

[yesenadam]

All totally beside the point. No-one suggested "encouraging" questions you don't think are worthy. Flag them. But writing the horrible way you did has no place on HN or anywhere. It's not much good what you say being 100% valid if how you say is revolting and breaks every possible guideline. It may have been a bad question, but it was far, far better than your comment.

[gt565k]

Yup... as if somehow there's a magic answer for some of the most general questions and it's hiding in the YC crowdsourced brain.

If you had to ask that question, you need to take 5 steps back and watch YC's startup videos, read PG's essays, learn a thing or two about understanding markets and research your idea to see if it has been validated by others. Sitting around and pondering if something is a good idea without a plan or understanding what value is being created is no good.

Take action: research, build MVPs, talk to people (your end users / potential customers). The only ones that can validate your idea are your end users / customers.

Focus on building something users want or need and build it so well that once they use it, they can't go back to their normal without it. Monetization comes after your prove there's a demand for your product. You can fantasize all you want about how to make money off an idea, but if no one wants to use your product, it doesn't matter.

[mindcrime]

Also, nobody bothers searching the existing archive of discussions to see if their question has already been answered. This particular one has been discussed ad nauseam.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=validate+idea

[aosaigh]

Horrible, cynical reply.