Two weeks of honest conversations would have told me everything three months of building couldn't. Measure twice. Cut once. #ValidateFirst #CreativeEntrepreneur

Two weeks of honest conversations would have told me everything three months of building couldn't. Measure twice. Cut once. #ValidateFirst #CreativeEntrepreneur

ValidateFirst .ai can help founders sharpen their pitch for accelerators.

Don't build until users beg for it. Early YNow idea was a platform where Professional get jobs. After driver and mechanics chats, it sharpened to verified on-demand mechanics, routine and structured maintenance, transparent repairs and acces to educational resources for mechanics One guy said: If this existed last year, I wouldn't have lost ₦500k repairing an undiagnosed car problem. If YNow existed, I could have avoid being stuck after a car breakdown. These expeirences beat any pitch deck. What's the strongest 'I need this' feedback you've heard? Drop it! #FounderJourney #ValidateFirst

Your idea isn't the hard part. Knowing if it's worth building is. Don't spend 6 months coding something nobody asked for. Talk to 10 strangers. Find 1 who pays before you write a single line of code. #ValidateFirst #FounderPlaybook #BuildInPublic #StartupAdvice #ZeroToOne

ValidateFirst AI also elps first time founders sharpen their business modelling and validation insights before applying for accelerators.

AI lowered the barrier to building, but it didn't lower the barrier to validating what people actually need. So I built a thing. ValidateFirst automates that workflow, so builders and entrepreneurs can stop guessing and start making informed bets.

ValidateFirst now suggests daily growth actions for each idea, to help founders distribute their landing page and validate their ideas.

With my tool ValidateFirst 😉

With my own tool ValidateFirst

Testing three business ideas in parallel using my own tool ValidateFirst. How are you choosing among your ideas of what to work on?

Many features shipped to ValidateFirst recent days, after getting feedback from our first users. Working on a new logo and demo video to prepare for the official launch later this week 🚀 A lot of focus has gone into improving the research UX, getting AI to be as helpful as possible and to soften many sharp mvp edges. IMO the product is now in shape to really make a difference to founders. I hope you want to give it a try!

"Sole founders, prioritize user interviews over marketResearch, it's the 'aha!' moments that validate your idea, not focus groups 📢💡 #Solo #FounderLife #ProductMgmt #StartupAdvice #ValidateFirst #LaunchFast"

You can now branch, share and iterate ideas on ValidateFirst! 🚀 Try it out now!

Before you build the last piece of software, let ValidateFirst tell of it’s worth it 😉

Just shipped a super solid and data driven (yet opinionated) validation scoring to ValidateFirst. Give it a try!

ValidateFirst release notes for February. If you haven't already, you should give todays version a try. - refreshed visual design across the app - rotating placeholder examples in idea input - minor UI polish and consistency fixes - improved chat experience with smoother scrolling, loading indicators, and research status messages - enhanced validation phase with validation score, content editing, and reordered steps - improved research and validation output quality - added meeting notes for prospects - moved progress buttons to floating bottom position - fixed soft-deleted ideas appearing in landing page queries - fixed auto-scroll to completed steps in insights panel - fixed page title casing to ValidateFirst - replaced onboarding dialog with a 5-step walkthrough - fixed validation score calculation - made research and validation outputs more concise - split validation tab into separate Signals and Validate tabs with updated copy - landing pages are now more prominent in the validation phase - email templates now render consistently across email clients - fixed landing page steps that errored due to duplicate data - fixed signals phase being locked for ideas that completed research before v74 - edit landing pages with live preview and AI-powered vibe editing - fix CTA buttons not being clickable on landing pages - fix customer interviews count inconsistency between expanded and collapsed states - branch idea to iterate on your ideas and validation experiments

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Couldn’t agree more 👍With ValidateFirst we’re streamlining step 3.

An idea isn’t valuable until someone is willing to use or pay for it. This short shows how to test before you invest. 👉 youtube.com/shorts/oQixPL42f… #ValidateFirst #StartupMistakes #BusinessThinking #InnovationMindset