[jamesskarzynski]

Thanks for the input! Sorry you feel that way. I don't think I'd agree with your sentiment. I think it's a bad idea to build a whole product and spend potentially months or years before even knowing if people like your product.

[xwdv]

Bad for the startup that builds the wrong product, but good for the consumer.

Why should the consumer have to constantly suffer through a parade of fake ads for fake startups that don’t really know what consumers want and just want to try a bunch of things and see what shit sticks?

I used to buy stuff from Instagram ads, but now it’s littered with companies putting up ads for a bunch of random Chinese crap they can find on Ali Express and seeing what gets the most orders so they can ship it off to customers and then it turns out to be some piece of shit. Because of that I no longer pay attention to products advertised like that. This is the startup equivalent.

[1123581321]

In aggregate, consumers benefit from lower cost to bring products to market, which this is trying to do.

Personally, you may know a friend or family member who wasted a lot of time on a bad idea or possibly hurt themselves financially. Many people, like me, do. It hurts to see. So consumers benefit if their loved ones who are entrepreneurs can avoid making some bad business decisions by getting information earlier.