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Before you let it rest in your project folder, you can try to pitch your idea at a startup weekend or similar event (basically, hackers, designers and business
by CookWithMe 14y ago
Before you let it rest in your project folder, you can try to pitch your idea at a startup weekend or similar event (basically, hackers, designers and business people spend a weekend trying to "create" a startup, usually building a MVP and doing some customer validation).
If your pitch includes "I have a mailing list of X persons who are very interested in this and would love to spend money on it", then it is going to stand out. It is usually possible to build a really rough proof-of-concept in that time, and you can use that to validate your idea, to a certain extent. If you are lucky, you might even find some developers who find this project interesting enough to continue working on it after the weekend.
But you'll need some luck for this to work perfectly, so if you are super-serious about it, try the paths outlined by others here.
- helen842000 14y agoI have actually been to Startup Weekends before. They're awesome! They always say you can't work on things you've already started on - so I'm a bit dubious about it sounding like "hey build this for me guys". They are a great way to build stuff no doubt.
- CookWithMe 14y agoI don't know the exact definition of an idea being started on, so yeah... I'd say it's fine. If you had build a prototype, that would have definitely crossed the line. But you don't even have a landing page up, right? I have only been to one (in Berlin) before, and there have been a couple of pitches where people did spend time previously researching. It's fine with me, if you are willing to leave some creative freedom and not force everything pixel-specific onto people.