19d (edited) • 🚀 Launches & Wins
Launched my Alpha Phase!
Heya there builders,
I just launched and alpha phase of a product I've been working on for around a week.
Since yesterday, I got 7 out of 10 members to agree to be my alpha users; I give them the product for free, they give me (very valuable) feedback!
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Here is what I did in this week, to give you a real life example of how to research, plan, build and test the waters when you're building:
Day #1:
I came up with the idea in the morning, by midnight I had a very solid working proof of concept. (You know, AI does make that work really easy for builders when you know what you want).
Day #2 - Day #5:
Iterating on the product, making it a real prototype/MVP. Strategizing about marketing and exposure, and general plan of building this product.
Day #6:
Find community who suffers from the problem you're solving (Luckily, I had a community already very close to me, which I have built a very solid reputation in for the last 2.5 years). I mapped out 10 people whom I've had contact with (Familiarity), and reached out to them with a message that goes something like this: "Hey! long time, I've been building XYZ, would you be interested in getting access as an alpha user and provide feedback in return?".
Day #7:
I ensure all systems are ready to welcome the alpha users.. We're talking product deployed online, with a functional end-to-end user journey flow (From signup until problem solved / value).
7 out of 10 people have responded to me, and have agreed to be alpha users. (Still crossing my fingers for the last 3 to respond with a yes).
Finally, I sent them out the sign up link with minimal instructions.
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REASON FOR RUNNING AN ALPHA PHASE (Or Stealth launch, as I'd like to call it) is as follows:
I want to quickly validate OR invalidate my idea.. If 6/10 users tell me that this is something they would use, I'll invest more time into developing it. Otherwise? I'll kill the idea without remorse. And move onto the next.
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For now, the alpha will run for 1-2 weeks, will keep you posted with any new interesting stuff happening!
I hope you take inspiration and learn a lesson or two from this post, and go build your own products and solutions 💪
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