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by achempion 2088 days ago
Since you're asking for some sort of advice, take any idea you come up with and validate it.

The only way of validation is getting paid. Don't write any line of code before getting payment.

You can accomplish very much with current available tooling.

If your project requires some sort of implementation, don't spent more than two weeks on it. You could create landing and forms using services as typeform and others. Then gather several hundreds of signups and talk to this people.

The failing rate is high and last thing you want is to spend 2 years on validating your idea.

As a technical founder it'll be hard to avoid hacking right away but the coding skill is required only if you get after validation stage.

Try to come up with idea per day, then at the end of the month pick most promising and validate it.

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> Don't write any line of code before getting payment. Are you suggesting you ask for pre-payments on your landing page/forms? Is that a thing?