Now I'm exploring a service: create 3-minute video prototypes to validate demand before writing code, then run targeted surveys.
The pitch: $500-1000 and 3-5 days to avoid a $20k failed MVP.
I don't have a product yet—just talked to 2 devs who said they'd use it.
Questions: 1. How do you validate features today? 2. Would you trust "fake" video prototype data? 3. What would make you actually pay for this?
Looking for brutal honesty before I build anything.
vunderba•1h ago
1. Who are you?
2. Are you an established expert in any of the overlapping fields? (video, product demos, outreach, sales, SEO, etc)
3. How do I know you're not just throwing together an animated figma and using bots to simulate survey answers?
zhongyongxu•1h ago
1. Who am I: jone, ex-tplink engineer, spent 3 months building a feature that got 0 sales. Painful lesson. Now trying to solve that for others.
2. Expertise: Not an expert in video/sales. That's why I'm talking to people like you first instead of building a platform. Currently learning by doing—first 3 validations are free in exchange for brutal feedback.
3. Fraud: Valid concern. My current process: - Typeform/Google Forms (you own the raw data) - You pick the channels (your Twitter, your Reddit, your email list) - I screen-record every response coming in - Deliverable: raw CSV + my analysis, not just a "trust me" PDF