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Customer Validation
Customer Validation

Even before launching your product, being able to build community/waitlist/pre-sales/other can be the ultimate customer validation to give you the confidence that you should go ahead with building your MVP. You don’t have to nail each method on the head, but the more that are able to be incorporated, the more positive feedback loops of growth can be created to drive traction even before you write a single line of code!

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Building Community Around Your Product

Check out this article from Tom Bangay, Director of Content at

Juro⁠

to start

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Reddit 🤖

*Tips from

Taylor Nieman⁠

(co-founder of

Toucan⁠

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Use your personal account

Ask to join the relevant subreddits

As soon as you are in…reach out to the moderates (despite popular belief…they’re nice people)

Show them your product and ask for the blessing

Tell them *exactly* what you are gonna say, workshop your message with them to make sure you are not breaking any community rules

Shoot your shot, and DM them your post along with a thank you note.

Twitter 🐦

“Building in Public” + Value + Consistency = Twitter following for your product

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Some great founders/indie hackers who are experts in building in public on Twitter

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@KennethCassel⁠

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@thisiskp_⁠

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@PaulYacoubian⁠

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@damengchen⁠

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📋 Waitlist

Building a waitlist is extremely low effort, high reward. Coding your own waitlist landing page is simple enough, but you can even use no-code waitlist builders such as

Waitlist API⁠

that also integrates an awesome referral incentive program too!

Take a page out of Robinhood’s playbook that has built them to the behemoth they are today. The screenshots below are from Robinhood’s earliest days where they accumulated “1M users” even before they wrote a single line of code for the platform due to a viral referral program + very simple yet enticing waitlist signup page. The pre-launch game can position your product to explode upon actual launch!

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