sell before you build
The cheapest way to learn whether something is wanted is to try to sell it before it exists. A real yes is a number said out loud.
Building is the most expensive way to find out whether anyone wants the thing. You’re smart enough to build it — nobody doubts that. Selling is the hard part, which is exactly why it goes first.
A real yes is a number said out loud. Not a pilot, not an MOU, not “that’s cool, build one more feature.” Find someone who already spends money on the problem and ask what they’d pay if you solved it. “If you cut my token bill in half, I’d pay 5k a month.” That’s not a contract and it’s still the most valuable thing you own, because it’s the one piece of feedback nobody gives you just to be nice. If nobody will name a number, that’s your answer: the product is wrong, or the customer is.
You don’t need the product to do this. Apple showed iPhones on stage that didn’t work. Musk’s robots on YouTube are demos. Make a landing page, show it to the person most likely to pay, and iterate until one of them says “I’ll pay 10k a month.” They don’t know there’s no backend yet, and that’s fine — the point was never the backend, it was the yes.
When you do ship, charge from day one. Even a hundred rupees. Free users will always tell you it’s good, because it’s free and they’re being kind. Put a paid plan on it and release it to your own followers with a day’s trial. If it’s buggy at a hundred rupees, nobody cares — apologise, give them three months free, and now you have real validation and an email list instead of applause.
The strongest version never touches Twitter. You sell it one-on-one — a package for the handful of people who already do this manually every day, with a short trial. They’re addicted in a week and one use pays for the year. Sell it before it exists, then build exactly what you already sold.