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Re:Ask HN: Where do you find potential customers to validate... by xsmasher on Thursday April 01, 2021 @01:46PM (#26663785)
There was a trick in "Four hour work week" - I'm going from memory, might not be accurate - where Ferriss would place eBay listings for nonexistent products and then cancel the auction before it completed; any bidding would indicate real customer interest.

You could do something similar with facebook ads. Make ads for the finished product, if people click take them to a "Register for more info" page. Now you have some email addresses of interested people.

This only measures superficial interest in a concept of course; it doesn't give feedback on your actual product.

Re:Ask HN: Where do you find potential customers to validate... by bellttyler on Thursday April 01, 2021 @02:07PM (#26664036)
The 4 hour work week is such an awesome book.