You shouldn't be thinking about a product without finding a client first. Otherwise you are just doing brain-surbation, and that's not what business is about.
Find a client first. Get to know its problems. Then build a product that solves this problem.
Unconventional advice but I found Ycombinator's suggestion to "Do things that don't scale" extremely valuable. i.e reaching out directly to people who you think would like your product, speaking with any existing users on the phone, on video chat, or better yet in person. DO things now that you won't be able to do when you have 1000s of users.
This has helped me immensely in getting my first 10 users for Partizion - as a consequence I know first names, vocations, and interests of all of my first users, I've also had great conversations with each of them. This is extremely powerful as I move forward and improve my product.
Well. Drop everything.
You shouldn't be thinking about a product without finding a client first. Otherwise you are just doing brain-surbation, and that's not what business is about.
Find a client first. Get to know its problems. Then build a product that solves this problem.
It's not my personal experience, but I find this approach utterly interesting.
https://dcgross.com/the-power-of-ten-playbook/
Unconventional advice but I found Ycombinator's suggestion to "Do things that don't scale" extremely valuable. i.e reaching out directly to people who you think would like your product, speaking with any existing users on the phone, on video chat, or better yet in person. DO things now that you won't be able to do when you have 1000s of users.
This has helped me immensely in getting my first 10 users for Partizion - as a consequence I know first names, vocations, and interests of all of my first users, I've also had great conversations with each of them. This is extremely powerful as I move forward and improve my product.
After you've asked in your network, some may stick some may not and that's fine.
Search for people on twitter who are talking about the problem you are solving. And reply to them, but don't be salesy.
Hello
CTA n°1 : it is as a Date: present yourself at your best, know who you are looking for, and match.
The advise seems to be : stop think and start do. So my question is do you have any "Call To Action" for product people?