[rudasn]

Did you find buyers for your software, or have shown it to someone who might be interested in buying it?

If yes, and they somehow validated your idea and implementation of it, congrats! You have completed the hard part of developing commercial software. Asking anyone for 2-3k is a very easy now.

If no, you may be overestimating the usefulness of your product, or the willingness of hospitals to pay for something like that, or underestimating the work required to get it done in a way that both fulfills the needs of your target customers and their own compliance-related must-have requirements.

The majority of IT projects fail for being under scoped or over budget or both. As a new med school grad, you may be lacking the knowledge, skills, experience to pull off a project like this in the way you hope.

My advice would be to think it through rationally. You may not have found the billion dollar idea, and if you have, maybe you are not equipped right now to pull it off in the way you think you should.

Good news is you can work these issues and achieve your goals. But it may be way more work than you'd think. Especially in this field.

[AnonymousDoc]

The thing is, my users are doctors, and the potential buyers are not (a manager of a hospital that would think about hiring me).

I have shown to my colleagues (doctors) and they loved it.

But rn my plan is to finish a minimal viable product and then try to sell it to a small hospital

[rudasn]

Well, you won't be the first to build something users love but their employer/your customer won't be willing to buy.

Have you found the small hospital you will be selling this to? Or made a list of such potential clients?

And why would a small hospital be more willing to buy than other, bigger ones?

Maybe there's a feature or two that you/doctors have not considered useful but your clients find crucial, and you must focus on those ones more than anything else.

Maybe there's a reason almost all hospital/health-related software is bloated and sucks for anyone actually using it.

Maybe you should be spending more of your time thinking about these questions and how to answer them before spending any more money on this.

I'm not trying to stop you, just point you to what I think is the right direction. I could be very wrong here, is what I mean.

[AnonymousDoc]

A small hospital would be more willing to buy than bigger ones cuz the bigger ones already have a huge software that is solid (bad, but solid) and costs a ton of money

I’ve found one or two hospitals that could be potential clients, but I’m still a bit hesitant to try selling just an idea since it’s not something solid yet. But maybe it’s all in my head, and I should just go for it anyway.

The reason I wanted to develop software like this is exactly because the ones that already exist are terrible. As a doctor, I understand the pain points we deal with every day. My goal is to create something that's 10x better, which I believe I am, based on the pain my colleagues and I have experienced

"Maybe there's a reason almost all hospital/health-related software is bloated and sucks for anyone actually using it" : actually That’s one of the reasons I decided to create what I’m working on. Once I realized there was no real connection between the software and the users (who are the ones that should be served), I came to the conclusion that I’d have to build it myself

I think I’m going to start reaching out to some potential clients even without a solid product... who knows, maybe they’ll save me financially if they like my idea, I think you're right