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Aaron O'Leary

What's the first thing you do when working on a new idea?

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You have a new idea and it's on your mind, you want to get started, but where? What do you do first?
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Matheus Emanuel
1) I start by freely writing down my thoughts about the problem I am trying to solve, then I start a process of learning about the problem field (books, articles, interviews, podcasts...) as much as possible and generate more ideas in the meantime. 2) After the two steps above, I define v1 of my resolution to the problem and go looking for ideas, people, arguments, etc to refute my resolution or add new perspectives. I do process 2 a few times (the amount depends on the size/complexity of the problem I'm working on). And parallel to these processes I am continuously asking myself "how can I simplify this?" and if it is a new product I also ask myself "what benefits can I add to this without making it complex?". I like to ask these questions because I think it's very easy to make things complex and get lost on the way forward.
Aaron O'Leary
For me, it's always the domain hence why I have about 20 unused domains 🥲
Jan Forsthuber
@aaronoleary Jokes aside, I feel like finding a cool/matching domain name isn't as easy as one would imagine haha
Greg 'X' Willis
@aaronoleary This is legit the same thing I do.
Sanskar Tiwari
@aaronoleary i usually go for free .web.app domain so first focus becomes building the product and landing page to not waste much time on landing page i use Frontendor
Omkaar Kamath
@aaronoleary @sanskar_tiwari Where do you get the domain for free man? But yeah, I go on planning and scoping out requirements to assess if its feasible. Then, I do market research and if it looks like a feasible idea, I gather a team. Otherwise it goes into a separate backlog.
Sanskar Tiwari
@aaronoleary @omkaar by firebase (Company by Google) i host my websites there you can reach-out to me on twitter dm if you face any problem https://twitter.com/indianappguy
Utsha Sarker
first think a lot abouth the project
Vlad Dribas
Something. Anything. If you do not start work (real steps to win) within 3 days - idea will RIP. It means do not think too much - just start do something ASAP and then you'll just feel what to do next and plan will be born by itself.
Eugenia Russell
@dribas I agree. Starting is the most important step.
Donté Ledbetter
See if anyone else is doing it and how. Even if they are doing it, I end up doing it anyways because I think I can make it better.
Omer Asif
@donte_ll The Force is strong with you.
Rich Buggy
Domain and social media accounts.
Sanskar Tiwari
@richdevelops that should be the later thing for me once i have more than 50 customers
Leandro
I write everything down first. Nothing structured, just raw thoughts. Then I read through those notes and think about it all for a while, to see if I like the idea. See if it's something I want to pursue vs whatever else I have going on. Sometimes just writing it down is enough.
Sanskar Tiwari
@leandro8209 good stuff
Chai Mohan
I think for me its to validate the idea. Understand what work has been done in this field if at all. {literature review} , SWOT analysis with a focus on impact and scale. Then it’s about finding things that work independently that will help me materialise this new idea such as tools and teams.
Shrenik Raj
@chai_mohan Absolutely. I suggest you check out the Delta 4 theory by Kunal Shah (Founder of Freecharge and CRED) https://www.kunalshahtalks.com/p...
Jorge Martínez
I open an IDE for writing some code
Sanskar Tiwari
@jmbastida that's me ✋ , is it struggle for you too to leaving projects in middle or quite in the end just because something else got more interesting 😄?
Jorge Martínez
@sanskar_tiwari same here 😂
Fabian Maume
Estimate required effort to implement it. => if more than 2 days of work postpone assessment to the end of the month (I end each month by making my backlog for the next one). Estimate the potential return (market size if business idea, or impact on branding potential for content ideas) If the potential return/effort worth it I review the existing competition. If I still see potential: - If it is less than 2 days of work, implement it on some weekend - Otherwise plan it my monthly backlog.
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