HACKER Q&A
📣 toboramai

Everyone says my product is cool. Is it a good reason for a startup?


Everyone says my product is cool. Is it a good reason for a startup?


  👤 pr07ecH70r Accepted Answer ✓
Only you can answer this question, especially without showing your product. As a rule of thumb, when you have idea/product, use this early version as an MVP, try to soft-market it to a small circle of pelple, be it your friends, or people in your living area. Get their feadback. If overwhelmingly positive, make it a startup slowly, and iterate from there. If not positive, but not negative, add some more features from the feedbacks, or completely change it, make a statup. If completely negative, dong' give up yet. Using the same idea, pivot towards a completely NEW(but similar) product. Always iterate!

👤 agd
Probably not. If people you speak with commit time/reputation/money then it’s a much stronger signal.

👤 kozinc
Your product is cool. Now what? How would you monetize it, or sell it?

If you did, what's the competition like? Can you carve out a niche for yourself?

...Now that you're properly discouraged - can you overcome all those challenges? If you can, calculate how much effort(look: money) it would take to do make your product into a money-making product; something you can sell...

...And then decide whether it might just be worth trying, even if the chances are small, even if you need to buckle up and work like a horse.


👤 re-thc
It's cool when it's free. Will they actually pay is a different question. Lots of people bash products they still pay for so...

👤 sharemywin
They like it but are they using it? Do they like it so much they tell other people about it?