rishabh

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I'm building an early-stage product, and one thing I'm trying to get better at is separating genuine demand from people being encouraging.

"I'd definitely use this" A growing waitlist. Someone asking for five more features before they'll sign up. As a founder, you really want those things to mean you're onto something.

What signal made you think "this is working" but turned out to mean very little? And what do you trust instead now?

Would love specific stories, especially the ones that changed how you build or sell.

At what point does a product become ready to talk to investors?

When you have users?
Revenue?
A clear business model?
A certain number of people using it?

Especially for solo or small-team makers, it feels twice as hard to reach all of these points alone - while continuing to build the product without income and bootstrapping everything.

At some point, it starts to feel like an infinite loop: