Ask HN: Indie hackers, I can solve an important problem for you

[egesabanci]

I have a question for indie developers. When developing a new product/project, it is no longer valid in today's world to develop the product in stealth mode without getting any feedback and without testing the market. Because your 2 biggest problems are: you have limited time/effort and no money (poor people, unfortunately)

Iteration is the key: How fast the product goes to market and starts collecting feedback is now very important. And even more important than that: MAKING FEEDBACK MEANINGFUL

Now I've come to my question, if I develop an infrastructure that allows you to collect feedback about your project/product and regularly reports these feedbacks in detail to you, telling you what you lack, what your pros are, what you need to do next, would you use it? How much money would you pay for such a thing?

[transformi]

I think that corporates will enjoy it much more. Average Indie-hackers won't have money for that, and should do this feedback by itself (due to its small scale).

[egesabanci]

Thank you for your comment, you make a good point. Do you think it would be better to design this product as B2B?

[fragmede]

why does the way you asked that make me feel like you're doing homework for a class

[egesabanci]

I do not know why, English is my 4th language, you tell me.

[fragmede]

"I think that corporates will enjoy it much more." is saying to design the product as B2B. Thus asking "Do you think it would be better to design this product as B2B?" seems like you need an answer to that specific question but can't be bothered to read the previous comment.

If you're clever enough to know that many languages, you should be able to interpret what transformi is saying as they think it would be better to design the product as B2B.

[egesabanci]

Yes you are right, I was just asking what are the reasons are.

[ed]

Do you have wireframes or a mockup or a landing page? One of those might help to communicate your idea. As written I have no idea what kind of service you're actually proposing. (User testing? Surveys? NPS?)

[egesabanci]

For now, I have a product in mind that is not yet completely clear, but to summarize briefly, I think something like this:

After the developers sign up with their products, they will add a method that we will provide (iframes, API calls, SDK integrations with auth-keys) to a part of their projects (for example, the landing page or the dashboard of their applications) and we will collect feedback from their users. Then, at certain intervals, we will extract various insights from this feedback and provide developers with data that will guide them in their next steps.

The feedback collected can be in the form of surveys or open-ended questions. As long as we have clean data that we can analyze.

[ed]

Make your goal to become an absolute expert in that space. there are a lot of products that do this already. like, a lot. and they're well funded or have lots of revenue and can definitely muscle you out on almost any paid user acquisition channel. but if you become an absolute expert, you might manage to find some niche or some really obscure unmet need, and you can start there before expanding. in theory. in practice, it's usually better to tip the scales in your favor by choosing a less competitive space. to do that, look for spaces close to things that are changing quickly. new laws, new technologies, cultural changes, etc. It's always easier to ride someone else's wave. best of luck.

[egesabanci]

Thanks for the advice.