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Ask HN: Would you pay to have your ideas validated by your customers early on?

We are a small team of engineers and product managers from the San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco).

We all know that > 90% of startups fail, but we are set out on a mission to help reduce that number. Founders / Entrepreneurs / Product Managers / Idea People of Hacker News - we seek your input to help make that vision a reality!

The problem: Currently, there are several sites out there that allow you to: 1. test your designs and wireframes, or 2. build / test a prototype of your product

But, there is no way to test / validate your idea without either: 1. Creating a wireframe / design / mockup, or 2. Creating a "Minimum viable product" or prototype

What if you could validate your idea (with the right audience - your potential customers), right after you come up with the idea, without having to do either of the 2? And without needing to FIND the right audience, your potential customers?

That's the problem we're hoping to solve.

Please help us out by filling out this quick poll: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12hMuGEs24-jwauw1FzSXAkOdLhCNcUss3mJd3uHIvbE/viewform

You can see a live summary of all responses here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12hMuGEs24-jwauw1FzSXAkOdLhCNcUss3mJd3uHIvbE/viewanalytics

( 6 comments | 16 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Would you pay to have your ideas validated by you... by aaronbrethorst on Sunday June 28, 2015 @04:45PM (#9795021)

    Would you pay to have your ideas validated
    by your customers early on?
I think you have the whole idea of customer validation exactly backwards.

Also, quit it with the comment spam. Flagged.

Re:Ask HN: Would you pay to have your ideas validated by you... by minimaxir on Sunday June 28, 2015 @03:36PM (#9794750)
Don't use blatant sockpuppet accounts to comment and upvote your submission.
Re:Ask HN: Would you pay to have your ideas validated by you... by kunalspunjabi on Sunday June 28, 2015 @03:41PM (#9794767)
@minimaxir Oh shucks, you gave away our secret sauce!

On a more serious note, we will ensure that the demographic targeting is 100% legitimate, from real people.

Re:Ask HN: Would you pay to have your ideas validated by you... by minimaxir on Sunday June 28, 2015 @03:41PM (#9794770)
Sockpuppeting is not "secret sauce", it's spam.
Re:Ask HN: Would you pay to have your ideas validated by you... by kunalspunjabi on Sunday June 28, 2015 @03:51PM (#9794808)
@minimaxir: Not sure where you got the idea that we will do anything like that. We're building a legitimate service to help people validate their ideas, not build a trojan horse to piss off users.

With our service, we'll be able to help you save time and money, and help you ascertain whether your idea is worth pursuing.

Re:Ask HN: Would you pay to have your ideas validated by you... by rishuarora on Sunday June 28, 2015 @03:19PM (#9794675)
Nice! What's your timeline like? We want to get our next game idea reviewed before we build the MVP.