How do you decide which idea is worth building?
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I have a lot ideas on my list, but only one is in active development right now. Part of me wants to build them all at once, but it's not realistic.
How do you prioritize? How do you choose what's worth your focus?
Of course, there are the basic methods, looking at trends, market research, asking friends, asking producthunt... :)
But still, these aren't things you can do in just five minutes. So in the end, how do you decide which idea to explore first?
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Datastripes
I don't debate ideas forever. I think the one that gets a working prototype in hours, not weeks, wins. Trends, research, friends, they don't really matter until you can show something real.
Last month taught me that rapid prototyping exposes the truth fast: users either care or they don't.
Datastripes
@vadim_archugov Yep, totally agree
Build MVP, hit the market, check response, update the product, launch again.
Keep the cycle going. There would be a point when your bank account reflect that you need to keep going or just stop!
@bhargav5394 and at the stage BEFORE mvp? Even the simple MVP can take some days if you don't do it full-time. Plus time to warm up.
Trufflow
Start with a pain point you've personally experienced that you haven't been able to find a solution for. More likely than not, others will have experienced the same.
I personally don't like to begin coding until AFTER I have conducted at least a dozen or so user interviews. Use those user interviews to validate whether your idea is actually solving a real life pain point or not.
IXORD
If you currently have one idea in active development, that’s great, but what’s even better is when you work on it with genuine enjoyment. Based on your message, you clearly have a lot of motivation, but it’s true that it’s not possible to bring all products to life at once. To answer your question about which idea is worth pursuing, it’s important to analyze what the market needs right now. If the market is already saturated, then the best approach would be either to create a superior product or to choose a different area to develop in
There is no magical five minute solution to your problem. Go through your list of ideas and get rid of those that sounded good at the time you wrote them down but don't actually solve a real problem people have. You'll then have to do some research and, if warranted, outline a business plan for each idea. Or you can just build the MVP you want and hope you'll figure out a way to monetize it later on.