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I own a website where my main users are 100% founders, and I made it waitlist only to gather their feedback and understand how they operate their business to meet their needs and here’s some straightforward insights I learned from them that you do not hear a lot but might help you with your research: 1. Go Vertical, and what I mean by that is you have to pick an industry with competitors and focus on a specific groups of customers whose problems aren't being properly addressed. 2. Confusing a problem with an opportunity, a custom might hate features on other businesses but this doesn't mean they will switch to yours, validate the idea economically too! 3. Not every inefficient process needs fixing, many uses Google Sheet and are perfectly happy with it even if they spend hours doing things manually, before building one, understand why they stick to the current workflow and whether they'll actually pay to change it. 4. Onboard your client if the added value of your product can't be seen instantly and requires time invested from your users, guide them through the process, this is something I did with Plot because expecting users to figure everything out on their own can make them leave before they even experience what the product offers. 5. Using AI to confirm assumptions instead of challenging them. Don't confuse a well-written argument with verified demand. If you find these helpful, let me know. I feel like we keep hearing the same advice: "gather feedback," "post on social media," and "build an MVP fast." But all of that comes later. You still need to understand the fundamentals before building, so you don't end up with an MVP that people aren't even curious enough to try.   submitted by   /u/Extension-Pickle7180 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/12 06:47:01