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by nmccutcheon 4282 days ago
Just to clarify the manual concept..

The owners of the above companies began with say their website, and then started to build a customer base before adopting an app or further development?

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Groupon started as a wordpress site. http://tomloverro.com/2010/08/19/groupon-1-0-started-on-a-wo...

For your idea there is a, 'secret sauce' that you fake until you have traction.

Say for example, your app improves the customer experience by drawing a smiley face on every receipt. You think that customers love seeing a smiley face so much that they'll come back the next day.

Rather than build a complex point of sale system that prints smiley faces on receipts, you do something simpler.

You hide under the counter, and draw a smiley face on each receipt yourself.

If people come back(validate your idea) then you can start signing up store owners.

Having several pre-sales, plus some stats about how your system demonstrably improves the customer experience will help you find an engineer to build out your idea.

If you share your USP, we can tell you how to manually validate your idea.