Interpreting validation results?

[inputchip]

Hey fastlane family, I have reached out to 185 potential customers for an idea that myself and business partner are pursuing in the software space. We did a simple questionnaire with direct messaging on LinkedIn, note that this was essentially cold email. Here are the results from the questionnaire:

57% open rate
44% reply rate out of those who opened

The questionnaire simply asked if they would use the described service for a fee. The results are broken down as follows:



I am fairly confident that most of the "maybe's" could be turned into "yes's" once we develop a clickable demo and get early adopters onto the platform which would give us about a 70% positive response. Most of the people who said "no" to the question are likely outside of our ideal customer as they are able to get this particular service for free manually, whereas others are not. The market we are entering is large, and there is little to no competition for this type of service right now.

My questions are:

1.) How do we know when an idea is validated?
2.) Should additional testing be done? Perhaps actually pre-selling the service with a clickable demo?

Thanks in advance!

 

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