A few months ago, I requested the abandoned subreddit r/ClothingStartups and was eventually granted mod status there. It is getting traffic and membership has gone up from 965 people to 1303 in a fairly short period of time while I mostly neglect it.
I am dirt poor and have no funds to spare for anything. I am still in the research phases. I would like to create an app to help me design clothes, basically, and I don't program (yet!) and that app hasn't gotten developed, though I've done some research.
I've read business books and the like since I was a teen. I've done freelance work in recent years, so I'm not completely clueless, but this is a different animal.
I would like to somehow jump start this idea. So, pretty please, talk at me and answer the questions I'm too clueless to know to even ask.
Please and thank you.
- advertising / customer acquisition cost
- distribution (labels, boxes, shipping, returns)
- production
The questions I would ask myself if I were in your shoes:
- what price will people pay for this?
- what evidence do I have for that?
- what are the closest substitutes for my envisioned product? How are they doing? In what way will I be better or cheaper?
- what are non-core activities that I should ignore, at least at the beginning (e.g. developing software, interacting with potential competitors on social media)
- what is the minimum activity I can do, to get my first sale?
I am the founder of several companies and non-profits. I also have won Startup weekend 3 times mentoring teams on how to create a startup.
You can reach me Doreen AT Free DOT TV