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Ask HN: How do you validate your business idea and find key competitors?

1 点作者 stevefan19999 个月前
For example, I&#x27;ve been thinking about delivering boring and old tech based on HTTP -- such as Wordpress, Discourse, NodeBB, Directus...but in cloud-native Kubernetes with full managed end-to-end lifecycle management, including HA, snapshots&#x2F;backups, ingress setup, object storage and persistent volume, disastrous recovery, Grafana dashboard, etc. All you need is select an app and provision it and wait for 5-10 minutes to get your service out. You don&#x27;t get to deploy your own stuff yet, say like Docker at the moment, but that could be done with virtual clusters in future.<p>This is effectively the same as DOKS one-click apps, but slightly better because you don&#x27;t have to manage infrastructure (we, or as of right now, I do, theoretically speaking), but I&#x27;m also sure somewhere someone else just did what I did better. It&#x27;s more like a traditional PaaS (say like Heroku and fly.io) but having some SaaS elements (cloud offerings) as well.<p>So, how do you validate the feasibility and justify for this product idea, and how do you find more competitors that already done what you do so that you don&#x27;t reinvent the wheels?

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conradklnspl9 个月前
I&#x27;m working on a product that may allow you to find competitors&#x27; customers through a search engine for the web&#x27;s HTML. If your competitors happen to put specific HTML in their customers&#x27; websites (some HTML tag, a JS library, etc), you could get a list of prospects, which could help validating your idea for specific products.<p>Here&#x27;s an example for Discourse: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datafragment.com&#x2F;search?q=discourse-cdn.com&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datafragment.com&#x2F;search?q=discourse-cdn.com&amp;page...</a> It is freemium: creating an account gets you some free searches with full search results.<p>Happy to chat more if you&#x27;re interested. We&#x27;re focused on the French market currently but could expand depending on demand.
brudgers9 个月前
Asking people for money is the best way to validate a business. If people pay enough for a profit, the idea is valid. If they don&#x27;t it isn&#x27;t.<p>You can ask people to pay before there is a product. Asking people if they will pay is not the same thing because it is less bruising to the ego.<p>Competitors don&#x27;t matter so long as people are paying enough for profits...just don&#x27;t take out a big loan and do talk to your customers.<p>Good luck.
Oras9 个月前
There are companies doing something similar such as Coolify and elestio.<p>You’re thinking in technical terms, but you need to focus on what’s the value for the user. A nice framework I learned the hard way is: so what? Always ask yourself this question until there is nothing to ask.<p>Once you find the value, then just search for it and you’ll find your competitors. In your case for example, managed wordpress hosting.<p>Edit: typo