How to validate your product ideas

[andyvan-ph]

Summary

User request via @jamesefhawkins:

I came up with a request. I'd love your thoughts on early validation.
Something like your "sales with no experience" post, but on validation. Questions:
Should you do dedicated product/feedback meetings? or skip straight to sales meetings?
Does outreach messaging change before/after you have an mvp? What did you say before?
How do you approach outreach messaging for free / open source products?
I'd love examples of invalidating & validating experiences you had. What is it supposed to look like?
I'm struggling with early outreach, essentially step 2 of the PMF game. I've had a short career without much of a network, nor do I have sales experience. It's proving challenging.

I bet I'm not alone. I hope this helps us both!

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• How to validate product ideas quickly
• An idiot's guide to validating product ideas
• How we validated our idea for PostHog
• How XYZ company validated their product idea

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[andyvan-ph]

@bijanbwb @jamesefhawkins: I wonder if this would make a good podcast series? Interview a bunch of founders, but ask them specifically about how they went about validating the idea initially, the eureka moments and so on?

[bijanbwb]

👍 Agreed. I'll add this to the list of episodes and sketch out a script.

[andyvan-ph]

Cool. Going to move this to "planned" as part of that then.