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Re:Ask HN: What's your startup validation playbook in 2024? by tomcam on Friday January 12, 2024 @05:11AM (#38966219)
If building new products is trivial you’re most of the way there! I suggest you monetize that process. It will rake in the money.

The most effective method to validate by far is detailed in “The Mom Test”. Brutally effective, hard on most egos—but probably not yours.

Re:Ask HN: What's your startup validation playbook in 2024? by lulznews on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:05AM (#38967484)
Ehh moms don’t get B2B and only savvy moms are going to get a lot of B2C.

I need scalable and repeatable.

Re:Ask HN: What's your startup validation playbook in 2024? by Prosammer on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:29AM (#38967673)
If I can't make my pitch / problem simple enough so that the average person / mom can understand it, I need to refine it. See: YCs advice on building simple pitch decks
Re:Ask HN: What's your startup validation playbook in 2024? by lulznews on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:06AM (#38968061)
That’s fine and all but this is 2024 we don’t need people to like pitch decks we need dollars exchanging hands. A higher bar of validation.
Re:Ask HN: What's your startup validation playbook in 2024? by pestaa on Friday January 12, 2024 @05:44PM (#38975201)
I think you're being misled by the specific phrasing, while underneath it's a simple product discovery technique (often referred to as jobs to be done).

No selling to moms necessary.