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A founder I recently worked with spent $40k on a dev before realizing he built the wrong thing
He had a beautiful product with a Clean UI, solid backend the dev did a pretty good job honestly. He even launched to about 200 beta users and was ecstatic. I mean, anyone would be. But only twelve of them actually used it regularly and to its full potential. So he reached out to me and goes: “I spent so long asking ‘can we build this?’ that I never really sat with ‘should we?’ Can you help me get more users? And it’s a problem I see with a lot of founders. It’s okay to want to build something that solves a problem you encountered but until you have enough market validation, you won’t get customers. You need to be asking: how pressing is this problem? Who does it hurt the most? And are they actually willing to pay for the solution? The painful part for him wasn’t the money. It was that three of those 12 users told him exactly what they needed in week one and he had it written in his notes but he never acted on it. If you’re pre-revenue and still building features go talk to your users don’t do a survey you limit their options Have an actual conversation with them and You’ll feel it when you hit the real problem. What’s the dumbest thing you built before your users set you straight No judgement just want to hear from founders
This is a classic case of 'building in a vacuum' without market validation, resulting in a product that failed to gain traction beyond a 6% active user rate. The lack of a defined sector, revenue, or initial discipline in following user feedback makes this an extremely high-risk, non-investable prospect in its current state.