Validation and Improvement of the Startup Idea | Startup Journey

[@devippo]

Criticism or advice from people can feel quite defensive. Good on you Ravi for putting yourself out there. Step by step you must be gaining so much experience.

[@Vladik614]

In my opinion it’s never a problem that something like that is already exist because there’s always a niche for you if you do it right.

[@perfectbase]

I totally agree! If you had to build something completely new to succeed in a startup, than there would be a lot less successful startups out there!

[@px8977]

Really excited! Amazon may have some great products but I avoid it as much as possible due to how complex things can get. Having a tool to abstract some of it sure is going to be useful. Would love to help you test the MVP when it's ready.

[@perfectbase]

Thank you a lot for the feedback!! 🙏 Glad that you think it’s a good idea! As soon as I have the MVP, I’ll let you know! 😉

[@luavasconcelos1637]

I validate organically first via social media and retention/engagement

[@perfectbase]

Interesting! Do you have any specific strategy when using social media? What would a good result look like?

[@DioArsya]

cool, btw what you use to draw this 6:23 ?

[@perfectbase]

thanks! I used sequencediagram.org/

[@victorbuikem]

This is an interesting take on idea validation. Personally for my idea validation I had a form posted on the public channels of my potential customers. And I got little to no response. I did more research and found existing products in my niche. So, I decided to build an MVP and invite existing customers of present products in my niche who aren't satisfied with how the product is run to try out my MVP. I have been getting response lately. What's your take on my approach

[@perfectbase]

Hi! Thanks for the comment!! Yeah! I think that having a simple product that your potential users can see and try out, is a very good way to get some nice feedback. Specially if you can clearly show the advantages of your product. And if there is a product out there where there are unsatisfied users, this seams to be a good place to gather the initial clients.

[@perfectbase]

It’s hard to say what is the right approach on idea validation, because I think it depends a lot on the product as well. For example, for a more expensive B2B product it can make a lot of sense to do some cold outreach and gather some initial potential users.

[@perfectbase]

By the way! Good luck in your journey! I would love to have you on the discord channel (once I build it) so we can talk more about this stuff..

[@victorbuikem]

@@perfectbase I would love to be part of your discord community (when you create it)

[@jonathan_emanuels]

Heey on which channel can I contact you? I will soon build a saas in public too. I would like to connect.

[@perfectbase]

Nice! Good luck on your journey! Sorry for the late reply.. the comment was held for review and I didn’t notice. Feel free to reach me on Twitter! I’ll also be opening my discord channel soon so we can chat more freely!

[@HarelTussi]

Will it cause slower upload time?

[@perfectbase]

The upload is directly from the browser to s3. So it would be the same as if you had your own s3 bucket. And there are some acceleration features that leverage the edge to make it even faster. I might use it in the future.