Just like, I'm from Angola but I want to create SaaS products, softwares to sell to another's countries but I know there is a risk to fail without knowing the market needs. How I can validate before a product launch?
I know it's hard in practice, but this will save you a lot of time, resources and energy for other important things.
* You are right. This is why I'm looking for options/opinions about the best option to analyze a market (where I'm not in physically).
> create MVP and then actually invest a lot more into building it
* Thanks for your tips. I'm always developing an MVP so I can make a test with real users and understand how to improve or even if I'm the right market.
Validation is testing those risks. If your risk is in finding partners, find those partners first and talk to them, validate that this is something they want. You don't need a product for this; sometimes slides are good enough.
If you're testing marketing channels, you can create a dummy page, market that through your channels, then shut it down. Don't do a landing page. Nobody trusts landing pages.
If you want to test value proposition, build your product against that, no more. If the demand is strong enough, nobody cares how hacky it looks, which is often why enterprise software is so ugly.
I will practice that. Thanks again.
Scale down, not up.
A paid pre-order system
A pre-signup landing page
A much smaller MVP version launched for free on product hunt
Personally, I now pre pre validate before any of the above methods by only working on SaaS I need and would pay for myself.
Just help me to understand. What you mean for example when you say:
> Personally, I now pre pre validate before any of the above methods by only working on SaaS I need and would pay for myself