I HAVE AN OPPOSITE PROBLEM
We have 5 pre-sales, ~...
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better-fish-79679
06/19/2022, 1:26 PMI HAVE AN OPPOSITE PROBLEM
We have 5 pre-sales, ~200 interested customers, and partners with 100K cumulative reach ready to promote our product to their list.
But I don't have a product yet. Here's our website if you're curious what we're building.
This has been my biggest weaknesses so far, which is why it's been 5 months since we started building and we don't even have a v1 ready for early users to test and collect feedback.
As a solo non-technical founder, what are some books/courses/people I should learn from to get good at the product side of things?
I read Getting Real by the Basecamp guys and found it helpful. I'm looking for help with:
• Hiring developers
• Managing an early dev team
• How to prioritize & incorporate user feedback
• How to make things go faster and launch quicker
Thanks!
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adamant-ocean-8207
06/19/2022, 2:45 PMWho is building this product? till now
What worked for a friend of mine they raised some seed round, got an inhouse dev team and few freelancers to build their initial product
Most of their devs were got from connections
adamant-ocean-8207
06/19/2022, 2:47 PMor you get your v1 built from an agency but one needs a reliable agency to do that and you need to handle everything yourself this could work or go wrong horribly
one of my friends who got his product made but an agency screwed him since even after many months the product is extremely buggy and is impossible to get work done from them
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better-fish-79679
06/19/2022, 3:50 PMYeah I've had similar experience with agencies.
better-fish-79679
06/19/2022, 3:50 PMHow did they manage to raise a seed round without a product or early users?
better-fish-79679
06/19/2022, 3:51 PMI do have the budget to hire an in-house team, but hard to find good devs - posted on multiple forums though, applications keep coming
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adamant-ocean-8207
06/19/2022, 3:57 PMHe raised through connections and had people in the industry who he knew ..
Another way is a hire individual freelancers who have good experience , I worked with two friends who i helped do front end development till their MVP stage so thats another option
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powerful-planet-56851
06/20/2022, 3:34 AMFrom the looks of it, the product does not look very complicated from a tech standpoint so there’s a good chance it can be built on Bubble or a no-code tool. That way you can have an early version of the product built yourself without a developer.
Then you could hire a founding engineer when you hit roadblocks/ or when you choose to build the rest of it.
You could also take the fractional CTO approach who would have a better understanding of what it takes to building the product and can guide you with their experience/network of devs. Happy to chat in DMs if you’d like.
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better-fish-79679
06/20/2022, 4:30 AMCan't go the bubble route now as I'm already working with an agency who's ~70% of the way there. Some parts of it were complicated enough to not be built through bubble though (I explored that option earlier this year).
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