I'm in Situationship with My Startup
I love building product as soon as I stumble upon an interesting idea.
My idea was to come up with icebreakers based on person's profile. I built this tool: getdatahawk.ai without any customer calls
I have around 150 users, none paying & almost no daily active users. 2/150 people agreed to jump on customer call.
I am wondering if this is a big enough problem for people to care about or should I move on. How do I decide?
>> I love building product as soon as I stumble upon an interesting idea.
This isn't a bad trait. It makes for an interesting hobby. I do the same with my hobbies.
You don't really say why a lack of users is a problem, so I'll have to guess.
I'm guessing that you'd like to make a profit from these projects? Or that you're hoping to turn your hobby into a business?
If that's the case, then you need to stop doing the easy fun stuff, and start doing some of the work stuff.
The work stuff in this cases means talking to people, finding their pain, connecting with a market, getting a deposit, all before you write the first line of code.
The work stuff in this case is discarding 99 ideas in every 100. By all means have ideas, but do the work, and discard them quickly, until you find one that meets the 3 rules;
1. Have a product people want and 2. That they can afford, and are willing to pay for and 3. You can reach to let them know of your solution.
Your idea might encompass 2 of the above, but without all 3 you just have another flop.
Flops are really easy to code, but a lot of fun. And hobbies should be fun, thats kinda the point. But hobbies cost money, they don't make money.
Once a person generates a personalized icebreaker, they probably keep using it and don't bother generating a new or different one.
As you admit, you did your project without customer calls. Which means that you didn't validate the idea and didn't confirm that it was something that people would pay for.
Very often the problem is the customer acquisition channel too. HN might not be a good place to ask as we don't normally approach strangers needing to know anything about them. LinkedIn might be a better channel.
if you can’t prove there’s something there then there’s not. Proof can come in any form, revenue, daily active users, upvotes on show HN but you need some sort of accountability to combat founder delusion which is the default, and on top of that, your metric needs to accelerate fast enough to keep you alive