How I got 5 customers to each pay £50 for an app that doesnt work
Your number one objective as a startup founder is to FIND the winning angle/solution to a problem that customers are willing to pay for. And, nail down the best way to deliver that solution profitably.
You cannot find this by daydreaming in your bedroom, envisioning features and spending months coding. PERIOD
I put a simple message in various different founder whatsapp group chats, along the lines of "Get 12 professional photos of your ecommerce product, and test a brand new AI app for £50" and got responses from over 10 founders, had to go with only 5 due to capacity, will re-approach the other in the next testing cohort.
Then had a series of meetings with the customers, and after they paid we made the 3d model of their products and generated some images for them.
Got some incredible research value out of these customers... I think we're onto a winner, only a matter of time till we finish building the product and ramp up sales.
VALIDATE YOUR IDEA WITH REAL PAYING CUSTOMERS
Because I spoke to, and got feedback from real paying customers, I KNOW for a fact what we need to build to grow and pull in more customers. and.... unsurprisingly, the features we're building as a result of these meetings are NOT THE SAME as what we initially hypothesised customers would want, we have pivoted our technical approach based on real feedback from real customers who've proved they are our target customers by paying.
Attached the images framekit generated for one of the brands (Frunix)
