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Ask HN: How do you know what you're working on is worth working on?

8 points ideavo | 1 comments | 16 Dec 25 06:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source

How do you know that the idea you want to work on or are working on is worth the time, energy and money? Not talking about side projects that you whipped up over the weekend, but medium term projects that you want to monetise, or even want to market to a medium to large audience (upwards of 100 daily/weekly users)

I see so many posts on reddit, people asking for validation. So I made a community-driven platform for it, I am attaching that link only: https://ideavo.tripivo.co.in

But my question remains, if you don't get any validation, why to take that risk of doing it?

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gcheong ◴[17 Dec 25 00:40 UTC] No.46296789[source]▶
Unless you have a paying customer willing to pay you with just a promise of something to be delivered (see kickstarter et al, Steve Blanks's customer discovery, etc.), you don't. If it solves a problem you have and in a better way for you than other solutions then you personally get immediate value from it. From there, it's possible others may have the same problem and will be willing to pay for it. It's not guaranteed but the number of people getting value from the software will be at least n = 1.
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1. ideavo ◴[17 Dec 25 05:11 UTC] No.46298501[source]▶
I pretty much have the same perspective, until unless it doesn’t solve my issue, I don’t really want to work on it