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Comment on Ask HN: How did you choose an idea to work on?

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Select the top 3 ideas. Put out landing pages for each with mock demos. Don't write code yet. Gently engage people online (ex: twitter) to gauge for concrete interest. You'll naturally start focusing on the idea with the most excitement and engagement.

Bonus point if you get people to commit to the idea with money.

Honestly OP this is your best solution. First find out if there's an easy accessible market for your project, and if it had costumes interested in it.

I promise you that is better to start off with validation of your concept, and an interested market (who you can then start testing your iterations with), before you write a line of code.

If you can't get product market fit, then either there is no market, or you've simply not found the market yet/sold the concept of your product well/or the market just doesn't want what your offering.

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