Comment by kareemm
6 years ago
> How do you get quality feedback? In my experience people will often say yes when asked or shown a mock up but will not buy. You don't find out who will actually buy until they try a functional product.
Ask them to pay you based on the mocks. If they say no, ask why. If they say yes, take their money and give it back in N days if you haven't built your MVP. I've done this BTW - it works.
> You don't find out who will actually buy until they try a functional product.
You'd be surprised how many people have gross business problems that some well-placed code would solve and they'd be thrilled to pay you for it because the other options suck.
I have real trouble wrapping my head around this kind of thing because I can't imagine paying for a product under those circumstances, no matter how useful it'd be. I get that it must work since so many people say it does, but it's totally alien to me.
If you don't have something to sell me, now, why are you asking for money? Am I an investor? No? Come back when you have a product. I'll probably still say no because I won't expect your business to last very long, but you'll be 100x closer to a "yes" than you are now, which is about as far from it as you could possibly be. Is this an unusual attitude?