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15$ with an idea and a Stripe link

Hi there,

So a buddy a couple of days ago came up with the idea for a new SaaS product regarding gpt and image generation.

We did a quick MVP that barely works, it breaks almost 50% of the time but we still wanted to validate the idea before going all in.

So me and my buddy have almost 1k followers on Twitter together. Did a quick post describing the idea with a stripe link in the comments with a 5$ value, no landing page, and no shipped product. In exchange, the buyers become beta users.

Around 30 mins later we got our first sale next 30 mins another 5$ and so on.

Do we consider the idea validated?

The short answer is no, We gained some initial momentum but we can't call it a business yet, not until we are starting to get recurring revenue.

What next?

We created a notion file with multiple marketing channels we plan to test out and see which one is the best.
We also created a list full of websites to submit our product and we are tracking the traffic we are going to get from each of them.

PS:

If you are curious, this is the product https://coverposts.com/

and we are also planning to launch on PH soon, and we need all of your support to make it in the top 3! https://www.producthunt.com/products/coverposts

on September 9, 2023
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    This is something I needed yesterday!

    Tried signing up with Gmail just now. Failed thrice or 4 times - Just FYI.

    Anyway, will try again in a bit.

    Thanks for building this. Cheers!

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      Hi, opps, our bad, can you please try with email?

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    That's actually a great idea. I think I needed something like this before.

    If you don't have it already, a killer feature would be a browser extension. Nowadays creating these is pretty easy and allows you to share most of the code, especially for Chromium based extensions.

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    Amazing story man! Glad to see an idea getting validation before being built

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      Thanks Vic!