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I feel like if you cut off time programming and spend that time working on building hype you might be able to earn a bunch more of customers earlier, which might turn out to be the difference between not needing external funds and needing them. Or the difference between being able to getting them and not getting them, if that's what you want.

Anyway best of luck!

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Thanks for the advice.Can you please point me towards where I can find some knowledge about building hype.I have seen some companies do this (Recent Example - LightTable).

In my case my product is really different and I dont know how I can get people to understand what it is without actually getting them to play with it.My belief is that my MVP will be the best tool for building hype.

Check the story of dropbox. This is one approach to test your idea. If it succeed, things get much easier.

Unfortunately, I can't find the initial promo of dropbox : " throw away your USB drive". It is also not accessible on the wikipedia page. This is a good example off startup project testing. They did so many things right.

EDIT: check this http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Is-the-original-Dropbox-private...

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