> For example I'm building something cool, a no-code visual regression tool.
Make sure you do your research on what's already out there, how much they charge, who their target market is (startups? Mid market? Enterprise?), what's their marketing strategy, etc.
Basically understand how your solution fits into that market and how you'll differentiate and make money.
These come up every few weeks on HN. Something something Playwright, something GPT something.
I fully agree that you should try to sell the thing first, because a good chunk of the people who might want such a tool could already have the savvy required to bolt together the relevant open source and off the shelf building blocks.
Yes. The more excited someone else is about an idea, the stronger the signal. The more you have to show them the idea, the weaker the signal (with exceptions at the edges)
That's fair but I need a job so this demo is a perfect way to showcase all of my skills and to add something recent to my portfolio. Maybe if I have like a year of runway and no money stress I can try the pre-sell thing.
Basically understand how your solution fits into that market and how you'll differentiate and make money.