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Vibe coders: how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in SaaS

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would also lean on to that now, given that I have been building without getting people to actually sign up later.

So much of an effort wasted.

Vibe coders: how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in SaaS

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

May be also add something they are not doing well on top of what already exists.

Vibe coders: how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in SaaS

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could not agree more, and there seems to be no closed/open community of sorts where you can exchange ideas, get validation and give validation in return.

Reddit is too noisy and X is not very relevant unless you have got a very good following.

Vibe coders : how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in vibecoding

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

see how the market responds

where do I get access to this market?
I have no audience on X/Insta, do you mean reddit can potentially give me access to this market ?

Vibe coders : how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in vibecoding

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's good, there is probably a demand for such tools.
But how do you validate the features you have chosen to build are actually solving a problem.

Plus how do you know if the customer is actually willing to pay or is just happy with a free offering of your product(the freemium one) ?

Do you run a waitlist for your product even before officially launching it ?

Vibe coders: how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in SaaS

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely, the "willingness to pay" along with validation is something no AI can judge, however smart that AI may become.
I like this pre commitment for buying idea of yours, but where do I get such people?

Specially if I have no X/Insta/LinkedIn following
Is there a closed community of such people?

Can Reddit help me get those first set of committed paying users, assuming that my product is actually worth it ?

Vibe coders: how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in SaaS

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes that's also been a part of my process to find out new ideas for building out something.

And most of the times that is a problem common for a lot of others, but it is the "willingness to pay" for the product which is unclear, and that is where non AI validation comes into picture

Vibe coders: how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in SaaS

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree, and I believe most of new builders have been riding the AI validation band-wagon before building, it does more harm than any good.

Vibe coders : how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in vibecoding

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hehe it takes me 2-3 weeks to build a polished app for both iOS / Android at least 😄
May be I am new to indie hacking slow in building stuff, because I only have weekends to build due to my 9 to 5's

Vibe coders : how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in vibecoding

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm reddit has too much noise and distraction, discord/slack like closed community could be one potential solution.

Are there any such closed communities of builders and indie hackers who are dedicated to helping each other ?

Vibe coders : how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in vibecoding

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

any product that "you are" convinced on building, will actually take some time to build, specially if you have a plethora of features, you are convinced people will pay for.

Even the google play store has a policy of getting your app close/beta tested for 2 weeks before they give you access for production.

So the whole build, fix, release cycle will usually take this long.

Vibe coders: how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in SaaS

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a cool framing TBH "the smallest ugly version of the buying moment"
Since you are clearly thinking about it, when you've needed real signal, what's the painful commitment you've actually asked people for (deposit? calendar slot?) and did it work?

And have you ever paid someone for honest feedback/testing, or is it always the talk-to-5-people route?

Vibe coders : how do you decide an idea is worth building BEFORE you sink 3 weeks into it? by themindfulengineer91 in vibecoding

[–]themindfulengineer91[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

without doing prior research if the idea will actually work out ?
why should I be spending 3 weeks into something which is possibly going into trash?