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3. Validate

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Get feedback, early and often.

At every stage, even if you’re just starting to think of ideas. Let people know what you’re working on and ask for ideas.

1. Show, don’t tell. Then, ask questions.

Build & share prototypes

Coda is great for prototyping your product ideas and solutions

Get good at asking both open-ended, and specific questions

Avoid questions that can be answered with ‘yes’ or ‘no’

👉 At every stage.

Early ‘Ideating’ stage: Let people know what you’re working on and ask for ideas.

Early Design ‘Framing’ stage: Build a POC or partner w/someone to convert existing content. Show don’t tell. Explore & test different versions.

👉 Show, don’t tell.

Build prototype docs

👉 Get good at asking both open-ended, and specific questions

Avoid questions that can be answered with ‘yes’ or ‘no’

2. Test your assumptions.

Methods:

Community promotion

Social validation/soft launches

Waitlists

Pre-sales

Examples:

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💪 Let’s try this: Validate each other’s ideas

Instructions

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Clear sample data

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Who’s problems & solutions are we validating?

Select a name:
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STEP 1: Validate proposed problems

Problem thesis

Review & comment

Target User(s)

Pain level (🕓)

Pain level (💲)

How actively are they in trying to solve this?

Impact index

My Assumptions

Tools to validate

Collaborative layoff lists built using Google Sheets often run into user limits, disorganization, and are easily moderated/managed

Open

Companies & Employees

1.67

People who create hiring lists have to spend a lot of time with error-checking and clean-up of the Google Sheets they’ve shared with the public, with edit access

Social

College move-in lists should be digital checklists—easy to share and easy to track what you need to buy, borrow, or pack from any phone or laptop.

Open

Students

Move-in lists often need to be shared with parents or others in the family so it’s easier to coordinate who’s buying or ordering which items

It’s frustrating when you can’t find the move-in check list paper

It’s frustrating when you don’t have the checklist paper with you to check things off as you buy them

Social

Poll

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STEP 2: Validate proposed solutions

Instructions: Upvote all the solutions you think are Desirable (the target group would love this), Viable (this solution makes sense, and could very well resolve/mitigate the problem), and Feasible (this solution is do-able and realistic)

Problem thesis

Proposed Coda doc solution

Desirable

Viable

Feasible

Collaborative layoff lists built using Google Sheets often run into user limits, disorganization, and are easily moderated/managed

Convert sheet to doc and show different views for different fucntions

College move-in lists should be digital checklists—easy to share and easy to track what you need to buy, borrow, or pack from any phone or laptop.

Digitize the move-in list and show different views as shopping lists, borrow lists; with opportunities for people to check things off from their phone

Everyone uses one platform/tool for collaboration

Pilot Coda with one club to show ease of use and then expand on campus to integrate collaboration tools - allowing the University of Pennsylvania to save hundreds of thousands in useless solutions for collaboration tools

Lack of proper onboarding on documentation

Host regular workshops/brainstorming session/hackathons to teach members how to organize notes

not consistent attendance - don’t know who will show up

create a doc that they can check into and confirm whether or not they will be attending, and shows the attendance of others, and how many people will be there

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Tools

Tools

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