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A comment on Ask HN: How do you test ideas before building?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you test ideas before building? by zkirill on Saturday July 09, 2022 @08:33PM (#32040719)
I remember a story about a book author (may have been Tim Ferris) printing book covers, placing them in libraries, and observing how many people picked out the book. That story stuck with me and I extrapolate from it for new products.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you test ideas before building? by mkranjec on Sunday July 10, 2022 @04:55AM (#32042941)
Care to explain how would observing that work in practice? There's no ISBN, so you can't track rentals. QR or URL would not give "real" results.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you test ideas before building? by zkirill on Sunday July 10, 2022 @09:18AM (#32044456)
You sit on a chair in the library or book store isle next to where you put your “book”.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you test ideas before building? by parentheses on Sunday July 10, 2022 @02:55PM (#32047714)
This is a damn cool hack!
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