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Ram Ganesan

How did you validate the need for your startup product?

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When we started Sivi, we interviewed various user personas to assess their interest in using AI design tools. When we presented the prototypes, we discovered that business owners and marketers showed remarkable enthusiasm about the product. This validation served as a strong motivation, inspiring us to move forward with the development of Sivi AI. I'd love to hear your experiences and insights.
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Hazel Lim
I think another really good question is WHEN did you validate the need for your startup product. As a venture builder at a startup studio, I see many startup founders spend months working on an MVP only to start validation too late (made this mistake myself as well). Some products do not need an MVP at the early validation stages.
Siddhardha Kancharla
I had an idea, quickly created an MVP seeking feedback on the idea. It was very well received and had a good number of users. Now I just launched the second version of it.
Jake 050
write good sales letter, make one image and share stripe link! I built $22,000 B2B community in 1months in this way. No survey. no paid ad. Oh and I am building a virtual office tool for remote team's happiness. Would love to chat what you are building now!!
Ram Ganesan
@jakeinsight050 excellent. are you able to scale to more users?
André J
I think talking to industry experts and product wizards that has made innovative products before is the way to go. Interviews and surveys are often biased and more often than not gives false positives. Apple never does interviews or surveys for instance.
Blake Whittington 👾
I put up an auto-based professional services ad-campaign online. Luckily we got a few sales calls. We're still getting them now from the Google Maps SEO
Hao Sheng
This is a tough question. From books, you do a ton of customer interview first.
If you have the resources to create a working prototype or even better, an MVP; I believe there isn't a better alternative
We will be releasing our MVP soon and so far it has been well worth the effort considering it has been the best source of motivation
Ours was a bit straightforward. When we started building Wylo - a community platform, we already had some players in the market. This was itself proof that there exists a need. To add on, we explored the current platforms, talked with some users, and understood the nuances of what can be made better and why there needs to be another community platform to fulfill the unmet needs.
Himanshu Kumar
For me, the first crypto startup I started in 2018 was a content business, because we saw the need and we personally needed something like that. For my new startup OpenTools.ai I faced the same problem and then I approached all my entrepreneur's buddies and they said the same. It's always the problem you faced, so you know more than normal market research.
Chirag Dodiya
Worked on particularly two things. MVP and Feedback Look. We built the MVP pretty fast for our flagship product. Which was academy to teach nocode technology. Focused on Bubble. We iterated over 6 months and gained more and more info on how the customer wanted to learn Nocode tech. Helped us gain a lot of traction. Now focused on taking it to the next level.
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