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by bonzoesc 4935 days ago
Nope, because you didn't believe in it enough to build it, instead choosing to waste time posting on websites. Zuckerberg didn't ask if he should build Facebook, the GitHub founders didn't ask if they should make GitHub, and Jason Fried didn't ask if he should build 37signals.
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gilrain 4935 days ago
Your conception of entrepreneurship sounds more like religious faith.
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ed209 4935 days ago
You're saying it's better to invest months of time, thousands of dollars only to find nobody wants it?

For every Facebook you quote me, I'll show you 10,000 others that didn't succeed and instead wasted time and effort when they could have done some customer research exactly like this.

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bonzoesc 4935 days ago
> You're saying it's better to invest months of time, thousands of dollars only to find nobody wants it?

Why would you invest that much? If your minimum viable product takes months and thousands of dollars you're doing it wrong.

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ed209 4935 days ago
that's not true. Not every product requires the same amount of "minimal".

You can quite easily get the signal from users of your MVP that they are not interested - when actually it's just that you have a crappy MVP.

Besides that, your original comment was not about building an MVP, it was referring to a full product. That's what I was referring to with "months" and "thousands"

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IWentToTheWoods 4935 days ago
That's some horrible selection bias. What about all the people who built something without asking anyone and it was a complete flop? What about all the successful products that did do market research?
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tommizzle 4935 days ago
Really? Assessing demand before diving into app development is considered a bad thing?
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bonzoesc 4935 days ago
How is a web form going to give you any useful data about demand? There's no investment or interaction with actual users. If you want to assess demand, make a minimum viable product.
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ed209 4935 days ago
You don't need an mvp to asses demand. Go on forums, get out on the street and ask people.

1) Get them to agree [or disagree] that the problem exists.

2) Explain your solution and get a reaction.

You should already have some idea of demand before you write a single line of code (other than the code they wrote for this simple page)

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