Would you pay to effectively validate your ideas?

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Description: We're building a platform that helps startup founders test if their idea is potentially profitable. Founders communicate with our AI (Valii) about their startup idea, using that information, we create a preorder page and advertise it. Potential customers for the idea can then place a preorder. https://valii.co/More details: We're almost done with the MVP, aiming for 12th Feb. For the MVP we are excluding the advertising feature and the AI integration. We are instead simulating the AI experience by asking detailed questions and using it to generate the preorder page. We believe the major feature is the preorder validation. Finally you only receive the money for your preorders a few days after you launch, to give your customers a bit of time to confirm their satisfaction with your product/service.Is this a service you would pay for and why? Any feedback is appreciated!

axelsvensson · Accepted Answer

I would greatly appreciate a service that fills this need, but your approach has a bad smell. The second you mention using AI for generation, I'm no longer interested. I'd rather pay 10 times whatever you had in mind and get human help. Make whatever internal tools you want to streamline the process, but don't take the humans out of the loop when it comes to something as important as validating a business idea.

Lionga · Answer

How did you validate your idea? With this hackernews post?

Jugurtha · Answer

Have you tried communicating with your own AI (Valii) about your startup idea (Valii), and have it create a preorder page and advertise it given the information you intered? How did that work?Shouldn't your idea validation platform be able to validate the idea behind it?

usgroup · Answer

In the case of a general product, spending some FB bucks and creating a landing page doesn&rsquo;t necessarily validate an idea. Perhaps more importantly it doesn&rsquo;t invalidate an idea if it doesn&rsquo;t work.Consider focusing on just physical products which are just sold on Amazon.

patatino · Answer

Sounds like a chatbot and a landingpage generator? Which is totally fine. How does this leverage AI?

madamelic · Answer

You should get rid of the AI and do this as a white-glove service to validate _your_ idea.Just straight up building landing pages yourself, asking the questions, be the AI yourself before spending too much time on building AI you may not need.

Would you pay to effectively validate your ideas?

How did you validate your idea? With this hackernews post?

Have you tried communicating with your own AI (Valii) about your startup idea (Valii), and have it create a preorder page and advertise it given the information you intered? How did that work?
Shouldn't your idea validation platform be able to validate the idea behind it?

In the case of a general product, spending some FB bucks and creating a landing page doesn’t necessarily validate an idea. Perhaps more importantly it doesn’t invalidate an idea if it doesn’t work.
Consider focusing on just physical products which are just sold on Amazon.

Sounds like a chatbot and a landingpage generator? Which is totally fine. How does this leverage AI?

You should get rid of the AI and do this as a white-glove service to validate _your_ idea.
Just straight up building landing pages yourself, asking the questions, be the AI yourself before spending too much time on building AI you may not need.