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Hi all,
I'm a software engineer and I want to start my own SaaS business. I've understood that I should validate the idea before writing a single line of code. And here the nightmare begins for me.
Last time I had a business idea:
- I don't know, how I could convince a business to use my MVP, instead of a fully built app by someone else. How do I approach this?
Also, I often read that I should create some mockups. But seriously: Who gives a F#@! about mockups. They want a prototype. I really question how this works, because people would surely laugh at me if I would only show them some UI mockups and no real app.
- There are lots of ways to validate an idea, but when I did try to validate my previous idea the last time, none of them really worked.
I tried cold emailing, writing dm's to businesses on insta, creating surveys(which no one filled out), collecting emails on a landing page. But none of these worked out, and even if they did. How can I be sure that someone will actually PAY? Collecting money before a service exists, is in my country a really weird thing to do. How can I seperate luke warm interest from actual buying interest?
Let's imagine that I own a real estate business with 1000+ properties and some guy wants to sell me his SaaS real estate app by showing some mockups or a really small MVP. I mean, I wouldn't take him seriously. I have properties to manage, a business to run. How should someone like him convince? I'm thinking about myself in the position of the guy who wants to sell the real estate SaaS.
In such a fast paced environment today. I'm really overwhelmed on how to validate my idea and get the first few customers. No one will take the time to respond to a survey, because they won't get anything out from it. Nobody is responding to my cold emails or insta dm's. I don't know if I should shoot my shot and just develop the solution for 6 months.
If you're a successful SaaS founder: What is your opinion on this? How did you do it? How do you know who wants to buy from you? Which channels work best for you?
Can you maybe share your step by step process/framework please?
Thanks for your help!
I'm a software engineer and I want to start my own SaaS business. I've understood that I should validate the idea before writing a single line of code. And here the nightmare begins for me.
Last time I had a business idea:
- I don't know, how I could convince a business to use my MVP, instead of a fully built app by someone else. How do I approach this?
Also, I often read that I should create some mockups. But seriously: Who gives a F#@! about mockups. They want a prototype. I really question how this works, because people would surely laugh at me if I would only show them some UI mockups and no real app.
- There are lots of ways to validate an idea, but when I did try to validate my previous idea the last time, none of them really worked.
I tried cold emailing, writing dm's to businesses on insta, creating surveys(which no one filled out), collecting emails on a landing page. But none of these worked out, and even if they did. How can I be sure that someone will actually PAY? Collecting money before a service exists, is in my country a really weird thing to do. How can I seperate luke warm interest from actual buying interest?
Let's imagine that I own a real estate business with 1000+ properties and some guy wants to sell me his SaaS real estate app by showing some mockups or a really small MVP. I mean, I wouldn't take him seriously. I have properties to manage, a business to run. How should someone like him convince? I'm thinking about myself in the position of the guy who wants to sell the real estate SaaS.
In such a fast paced environment today. I'm really overwhelmed on how to validate my idea and get the first few customers. No one will take the time to respond to a survey, because they won't get anything out from it. Nobody is responding to my cold emails or insta dm's. I don't know if I should shoot my shot and just develop the solution for 6 months.
If you're a successful SaaS founder: What is your opinion on this? How did you do it? How do you know who wants to buy from you? Which channels work best for you?
Can you maybe share your step by step process/framework please?
Thanks for your help!
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