Any tips on how to validate a mobile app service idea?

[AgonI]

Hi all,

I've been working on a mobile app for the past month but I haven't validated the idea yet. I believe it is a good idea and it will be a useful service but I want to validate it before I literally go all in and spend 24/7 hours to develop it.
I created "focus group"on Facebook where I've added few people who have same profile as my potential users.
Basically this is how I got them in the group:
1. Post in other FB groups/pages telling them if they can provide me feedback, I'll let them download and use the app/service free forever
2. Those who showed interest(about 5 people) were added in my group, and I asked them to review a list of features the app will have

Out of all those 5 people, none has responded with feedback yet. I am not sure why is this, I'm thinking it's because of the long description so they were too lazy and did not care to read it, or ..?

Do you have any other tips on how to validate my app ideas?

 

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[AgonI]

I am surprised no-one was able to offer any tip for my question. Seems like many people here think validation of an idea is not important

I found this blog post which seems to be exactly what needs to be done to validate an app idea. How To Validate Your Million $ App Idea in 3 Simple Steps

I'm going to try that out.

 

[tincho1492]

Take a look to the book Running Lean, it comes with very practical advice to test your idea.

 

[healthstatus]

Buy some traffic and send it to a survey.

ask people what they would want in an app that ________________

why they want it, if they have tried anything, if they have what did they like an not like

 

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