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A comment on Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've no distribution?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've... by Wump on Monday August 23, 2021 @06:40PM (#28282945)
"Now I'm wondering if my idea is bad or if my distribution is awful."

This is a false dichotomy, I think. Trying to grow is an essential part of how you evolve the idea and discover what the "growable idea" really is. This is one of the core things I took away from this PG classic: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

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Re:Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've... by dotvignesh on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:27PM (#28291013)
Maybe I should just launch first and iterate like PG says!
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