How do you test an idea before talking to users?
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Genuinely curious: what’s your “first-mile” approach before you book those early interviews?
Do you start with Reddit deep-dives? Reverse-engineer reviews? Talk to personas in your head?
I’ve been experimenting with ways to simulate early conversations using real user chatter - trying to shortcut the phase where you waste 5 interviews learning what the internet already knows.
Would love to hear how others approach this. What’s worked? What hasn’t?
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Triforce Todos
Reddit is gold for this. I scrape the top 50 posts + comments in a niche, then cluster them by pain point before talking to anyone. Makes those first interviews way sharper.
For me what worked was doing the reverse engineering of the existing product and their reviews.
Love this question. For me, even quick Reddit or niche Discord scrolls reveal pain points faster