[chaddeshon]

He didn't find customers. He found 2K looky-loos. Customers are people who are paying for the product (or meet some activity threshold in a free product). He found 2K people who were willing to give their email address to learn more about what was being offered.

That is a positive sign, but they aren't customers. It seems like 2,00 people logged in and then found out the product wasn't what they were expecting.

I know this was the case for me. I signed up hoping for a really nice online IDE. I found a bunch of ssh stuff that made no sense to me.

It might be worth talking to the 2000 people and finding out why they signed up and what type of product they were hoping to find.

[pkorzeniewski]

That's the point - if you don't have a product, you can't sell it. You can collect e-mail addresses, people may say they're interested in your product, but until you build it and users pay for it, nothing is sure. That's why I find the whole advice "sell it first, then build" a bit silly.

[mkremer90]

Thanks for the input chaddeshon. I would love to chat with you about what you expected vs what you found, and what you would change.

Mind shooting me an email [e-mail]? Thanks!