Better to talk to people and iterate on prototypes with a handful of pilot users until they are willing to pay, them expand beyond the pilot group. Not only it is real communication and iteration with users, we aren't spamming the world with "landing pages" of products that do not actually exist.
A better approach is to talk to as many potential customers as possible early on. Collect emails, show a rough prototype, get feedback, and iterate. Then, when you’re ready to launch, go back to those same people, email them, show what’s changed, and demo how the product delivers real value.
Needing to fill in the paperwork for a saas is a PITA. Is there anything I could add to the site or elsewhere that would have made that easier for you?
PaulHoule•4h ago
Taikhoom10•4h ago
PaulHoule•4h ago
Similarly I have worked for systems that would sell a highly customized system to a company like Airbus or Comcast or Safety-Kleen and there would be a huge amount of work going into determining what exactly gets sold which again, is not comparable to going to some landing page and paying with a credit card.
If you're selling mattresses or something, maybe that's different.
Taikhoom10•3h ago
And that's just a metric you can use to really see if people are interested in your product.
PaulHoule•3h ago
For consumer products what you're saying may make sense, but that is not the universe of all products and opportunities.
Taikhoom10•3h ago
sidewndr46•3h ago