I sell nothing yet. The idea is a month end reporting tool for small bookkeeping practices, the kind with two or three staff closing thirty or forty client sets a month. Six calls so far, 25 to 40 minutes each, found…
Landing page for a scheduling tool for a specific trade. Shared it in four places over six days, got 340 email addresses. Felt amazing. Sent one plain text email a week later no pitch, no design, one question: "what are…
Nine days of exact match search ads on three keywords. 41,300 impressions, 1,142 clicks at $0.21, and 3 email addresses. Scroll tracking says 402 people made it past the hero, 31 clicked "get early access", 3 finished.…
First time doing this. The page says "join the waitlist", there is a pricing table with three tiers, and there is a screenshot I made in Figma. None of it is real. There is not a single line of code. Everyone says this…
The tool I want to build sits on top of a scheduling API. Section 4 of their developer terms says I can't build anything that competes with or is substantially similar to their own features. They shipped a thin version…
Ran 12 interviews over three weeks. Every single one said the problem was real, ten of them said $29/month was reasonable, four said they would "definitely" buy it. Put up a preorder page real Stripe checkout,…
Six weeks ago I put up a form that dumps into a spreadsheet, and every morning I spend about 40 minutes doing by hand what the app is supposed to do (take a client's inventory export, dedupe it, mail back a clean csv).…
Two evenings of searching turned up three competitors. All between $15 and $25 a month, all with changelogs going back years, all with customers who post screenshots of the thing working. Half my brain reads that as…
I checked about forty phrases around the problem I want to solve. Almost all of them come back in the 10 100 band, a handful say zero, and the only high volume terms are generic ones that big software companies already…
I have four weekends before I have to decide whether to take three months unpaid leave to build this. So the constraint is real and short: I want the strongest signal per hour of effort, and I will not get a fifth…
Same underlying tool, two possible markets. The narrow one is around 900 companies in a specific regulated niche who would plausibly pay $200/month. The wide one is maybe 40,000 individuals who would pay $9. I have 10…