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?
When working on complex systems (like anything involving long-running automation or agents), most of the real work happens in areas that don’t show up in demos: defining “done”, handling partial failures, and keeping behavior predictable.
If those problems are still worth thinking about after repeated failures, I take that as a sign the work itself is worth continuing.
First you validate your idea by seeing if there is a potential market for it. Talk to people. See if someone is excited about it. Show them your work in progress.
See if there is already a company in that space and find a differentiator.
Paying users are very different than casual users. This marketability is nonetheless predictable though. Projects that solve a business problem of greater expense than what they cost in monetary charges pay for themselves, which is more than sufficient to determine product-market fit provided salesmanship and merchandising.
You’ve got to get over the “no one got fired for buying IBM” problem. I’ve been on the decision making side enough times to know that it’s hard to get a business to trust an unknown vendor.
There was a “Show HN” here recently where someone was creating a SaaS product to manage 1 on 1s between managers and reports. I got a lot of push back when I said there was no way in hell any company would or should trust their proprietary company information to a one man SaaS.
The author hadn’t even heard about other well known SaaS products that had that feature as part of their product (Lattice).
You don’t start a project with the goal of monetization without looking at the competitive landscape and market positioning.
He was completely blind to the idea that no company of any size wants to manage logins either. Every SaaS company integrates with SSO. Just talking to one person who knew anything about business sales would know this.
I wouldn’t even think about doing a Show HN without at least talking about those issues.
I've wasted far too much time in analysis paralysis, and not spent enough time trying things. Hopefully you can find a better balance.
But start with you: Are you building it because you want to build it, or because you want it? Are you in love with it as a project, or as a product? Is it something you want to use?
Then, when you have it as a just-barely-usable thing, give it to a few people who have the same need. Get their feedback. Does it actually help them? If so, then you may have something.