Go sell it, in person. Eg at rentoid.com (ebay for rent) we would find people who want to rent something, then go find someone who has the item to rent it to them. (I'm assuming you are making money somewhere in this process) You don't even need a website to do that - and the process of doing it manually can be invaluable to pick up some huge insights.
After you have done it manually for a while you will be able to pick out the bits that will have the most impact when you automate them. Then automate them! - Ross Hendro Wijaya wrote: > Hi All, > > About a month ago, we decided to start our own startups and one of the first > idea we are working on is personal finance (well, since this is the problem > that bother both of us personally and can't find anything to solve it). > > Now, after about a month, there is one big unanswered question that really > bother me as a company. > "Are there any real needs for this product?" > > One of the approaches to answer that question is that we decided to open up > our development effort for public under domain: > http://prototype.blindoptimists.com. > That domain contains all the latest codebase that we have. Basically, what > the users see is the same as what we see internally and that also means we > do deployment almost everyday. > > However, having done that, i really have no idea on how to attract a huge > number of people to go to the site and try it out and at the very least, > complaint even if we sucks. > > Can someone that have been through this early phase of a startups please > share some of their experience? How did you solve it? > > Thanks a lot for the information. Really appreciate it. > > > Cheers, > Hendro > > twitter: http://twitter.com/hwijaya/ > url: http://blindoptimists.com > blog: http://blog.blindoptimists.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/browse_thread/thread/99938a0fbc691eeb To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
