[davidw]

I don't think I would have done this either, but before beating up on Adii too much, have you ever spent a lot of time and/or money building something that no one wanted? It really, really sucks, and I can understand the strong drive to avoid it.

To keep the discussion productive, I think we ought to look at similar ways to validate a product that more of us would be comfortable with.

Edit actually, patio11's take on how to validate struck me as a pretty good approach:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/04/24/marketing-for-people-who...

It's pretty long, so if you find "This one day I went into a massage therapist, and asked" that's the start of the story.

I disagree with him about 'The Lean Startup' though, I thought it was a bit too ... "high level".