Ask HN: What should I do before building a MVP?

6 points by HowDoesItWork 9 years ago | 5 comments

I have a rough idea about a product finder website I want to build as a side project, but I don't really know how to measure market interest.

I heard about strategies that include building a nonfunctional landing page and running a Google ad campaign for that, but I would like to learn about other options.

Are there any good resources on this topic?

DogRunner 9 years ago |

A great writeup is the No-BS Approach by Clifford Oravec. It's a splitted in 4 major parts. Check out https://medium.com/@cliffordoravec/the-epic-guide-to-bootstr...

HowDoesItWork 9 years ago | |

Thanks, I will check it out!

brudgers 9 years ago |

I'd suggest this resource: https://blog.ycombinator.com/minimum-viable-product-process/

HowDoesItWork 9 years ago | |

Didn't know about this one, thanks!

luzia19 9 years ago |

you should do as much customer research as possible and describe a solution for their common problems before building an MVP to validate it