Hi Viners, would like to know how a non coder can build an MVP and check for market validation. !!
Any hints as to what space/ kinda business is this?
I've done a startups and MVPs before
Exploring in Aggregators, B2B, SaaS Spaces.
Quite a few things you can do:
1/ Market research and concept validation - talk to 50+ managers from potential early customers and see level of interest and feedback. Companies have raised small seed cheques just doing this
2/ Make a great sign-up page for your product before actually building it. Spend a little money to acquire a few users and see if the concept has any traction. Pretty much what you'd do if you'd built it. You'll get validation way sooner this way.
3/ If you want to build an MVP, get it outsourced on upwork as per your budget. Some of the best companies like Uber started by outsourcing.
This will actually get you started and you'll get directly get feedback on a product that you got built.
plugging me my new MVP which might be useful www.ideaflo.in
MVP is minimum viable product. But what business case you want to bring to? In which domain? Unless that is finalised cannot give any idea
use figma to create prototype, learn it on your own - 0 cost
Setup website with few pages - landing, features, about, refund, privacy, pricing
Get a college kid intern to code it, if you got connections, this could be free 😔
Make sure the signup page asks for credit card or some form of token payment if not full.
Show the prototype demo video on the website landing page.
If people are paying (also means signing up) you have early/gut PMF or not.
Of course refund people who paid since you don't have a product yet.
Everything else is just excuse.
When you actually achieve gut PMF (i.e people wanting to pay for a product that don't even exist), then start building founding team, then build a minimal version of the figma design, not full, raise funds and rock on.
