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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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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.
Stephen Paul Weber
Early betas of our product had a free trial to get people to use it and give feedback, then at some point we got rid of the free trial and said no, this is valuable, you have to pay for it. And people did. That's when we knew we had something really worthwhile.
Richard Diaz
Validation was a mix of customer interviews, surveys, and a good old MVP. Reached out to potential users in relevant communities, got feedback, refined the idea, and repeated the process.
Stella Wang
Get the minimum viable product and test it on Market.
Ram Ganesan
@stella_wang77 yes. How do we understand the core features of MVP
Stella Wang
@janakg Well, from my perspective, MVP helps you to test or verify what triggered you to design this product in the beginning. It's less like that you can fully understand the core features in the very first step, but you definitely have a rough idea about this product. Think about the moment that trigger you think, hey, there should be a product to match this need or pain point that I see. And MVP helps you to validate whether this matching really values in the market.
LOL I literally just released a validation exam to do this for you, what are the chances you post this? Crazy Simple yes or no questions to ensure your niche is a good fit for you with 10 categories and 100 Questions
Ram Ganesan
@forward_notion yes or no questions sounds interesting. Would 100 makes sense?
@janakg yes, 10 question from each of the ten categories. It's very in depth but kinda important. This Exam could save an entrepreneur years of their life trying to make a niche work that wouldn't work for them in the first place
Apostolos Toptsis
Build what others are doing but make it better based on personal usability. Guessing in most cases doesn't pay off. Better to look at what's out there and just do it better!
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Luke Emery
I was working on another start up project that was too broad, but 4 people asked me if I could make the same product. so I realized I should probably get a co founder and build this thing
Suyash Adhikari
Hi Ram, Have you heard of book Mom test by Rob Fitzpatrick? Please take a look at it. Secondly, how many people did you interviewed? How did you pick the sample data? There are several ways to validate, one if them is what you did with large sample data. Looking into competitors, and testing your poc.
Ram Ganesan
@suyash_adhikari yes, i know the gist of this book. I interviewed around 220 people, different personas and for some sent sample mock workflows. Primary focus was to find who has this pain point acute
Renat Abyasov
We are making a presentation designer. We conducted interviews with business owners and managers. We chose cool colors for modern design. And then, at the interview, we hear from the guys that even though we have a blue color, but the wrong shade. At some point, we started hearing it all the time (often). Now we are making a color picker :)
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