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My co-founder and I are building a marketplace where consumers subscribe to top-rated practitioners in a given discipline for ongoing guidance. We're operating out of India, and our market research points to North American consumers as the target. Two problems we'd love input on, and we're especially hoping for specific examples rather than general advice: 1. Demand validation on a small budget. How would you test whether North American consumers will pay for this before building much more? We're weighing a waitlist landing page, a concierge MVP (manually matching a few paying users with practitioners), and community outreach, and we can't afford big paid-ad experiments. If you've done this, could you share: What you tested, and the budget and timeline The numbers (waitlist signups, conversion to paid, cost per signup) What signal convinced you it was real demand rather than polite interest What didn't work 2. Payments. Our banking is India-based and PayPal/Braintree looks like the only workable route so far, but all-in costs are eating a large share of revenue. Has anyone run a US-facing subscription business from India? If so, could you share: Your setup (US entity + Stripe, a Merchant of Record like Paddle or Lemon Squeezy, something else) and what it took to get approved Your real all-in cost per transaction, including FX and payout fees How you handle paying out practitioners or sellers, if relevant What you'd do differently   submitted by   /u/Impossible_Juice_187 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/5 20:04:34