Ask HN: How do you validate business ideas before investing work

1 pointsm4nu9y ago2 comments

When it comes to validating an idea for a project, how do you do the due diligence before deciding that you should invest more work into that idea?

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Having a single customer who will pay you for your solution is usually a good first step.

adwords is probably the easy to get some kind of basic idea of demand. obviously doesn't work for something no one has heard of.

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1 pointsm4nu9y ago2 comments

When it comes to validating an idea for a project, how do you do the due diligence before deciding that you should invest more work into that idea?

Having a single customer who will pay you for your solution is usually a good first step.

adwords is probably the easy to get some kind of basic idea of demand. obviously doesn't work for something no one has heard of.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse