http://needgap.com Find your customers by the problem you are solving for them. Sun, 23 Jul 2023 00:08:00 +0000 <div>Platforms like needgap help in validating problems, Which helps us to invest our efforts in building solutions for problems which people want to be solved.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But how to validate the solution we build? Whether it effectively solves the problem for our customers? Whether people are willing to pay for that solution to make it into a Minimum Viable Product(MVP)?<br><br></div> 3 points posted by Abishek Muthian /problems/238-validating-minimum-viable-product-mvp-validation 238 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:30:00 +0000 <p>Platform for to-be founders to publish what they're&nbsp;working on&nbsp;and not just get feedback or request funding but collaborators who share vision and leverage platform to build till MVP. Platform enables collaboration and progress until some goal is achieved. Think Kickstarter but backers are team members or cofounders.</p><ul type="disc"> <li>Reduce immediate need for funding. Build shared vision</li> <li>Get people with shared ideas from various countries to collaborate and improve success rate</li> <li>Not just coding - Product/Project Management, Marketing, Architect, Designers..</li> <li>As there's no guaranteed paycheck, collaborators actually share the vision and are self-motivated to work towards the target</li> <li>Platform manages engagement &amp; legal detail</li> <li>Some features may be suitable to team members with other sources of income and/or students who want to contribute to a shared goal</li> <li>Platform provides project management tools to ensure goal is achieved</li> <li>At this point, no discussion about funding (maybe later). But efforts put in by collaborators are managed and documented</li> <li>Access to testers/pilot users</li> </ul> 1 points posted by Don Barry /problems/53-mvp-build-partners-mvp-prototype 53 Sun, 24 Nov 2019 21:46:00 +0000