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Should I start working on the MVP?

Hello everyone,

First of all, I want to thank everyone in this community who helps others by sharing their valuable knowledge and contributing.

I have been following all the steps that people have taken and shared about their journey to build a business and create something meaningful. I recently came across a problem/need that I really want to solve, and I am really excited to work on it.
So I decided to first seek validation before start working on the idea, and because my target audience is the other SaaS owners and people who are building in public, I decided to share and get feedback from the same, and thus shared my idea recently on Slack and some Reddit communities.

The response was pretty good, I shared with them the video demo of the service it would provide and a clear solution for what it would do, and got lots of comments on the slack post, people talk about how they anticipate using it and someone also asks to pay for it, etc, and on the Reddit post, it got around 16 upvotes (until now) and comments about their feedback.
This was all just through some words and a video demo, i.e. I haven't created a landing page or an MVP. I couldn't share the idea on other Reddit communities because of the minimum requirement of Reddit Karma, and thus this all is the initial response.

Now, I need your feedback on the potential step that can be taken now. Should I ask for more feedback or set up a landing page and share the idea more with people, and start working on the MVP? I also found that there is a section for idea validation on the product hunt and indie hackers community, so should I share my idea here too or should I start working on the MVP and share after the first version is completed?

Waiting for your response,
Thank you so much :)

on January 22, 2023
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    Good for you Leith. One idea is to build a landing page quickly and cheaply, and then ask for pre-orders. If these people truly value this problem you are solving, they should want to pay for your solution.

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      Thank you so much for sharing :)

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    You'll not really know before you'll do it.

    What you can still do is eg. create landing page with a broken "Join waitlist" button or just simple join waitlist flow. If someone will email you asking about it, or will subscribe and ask about release date, you might have strong indication someone really wants it

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      Thank you so much Adam for sharing, I follow your journey on twitter and learn something new,
      Like you said that I should have a landing page that collects email for the ones who are interested, I also figured that an mvp would be pretty hard to make, i.e. it might take some time to launch the first version, so until then should I post with a landing page even though the launch will take some time? and is it worth sharing the idea / landing page on indiehackers or producthunt?

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        In your case, where creating MVP will be a major effort, I'd always build landing page first. Create screenshots as if your app is ready, and share your progress on Twitter (this is exactly what I did, even tho I had 170 followers only). If the product is good, you'll see it resonates in some way.

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          I have been following your journey on twitter, can you please share how you get your initial customers for the screen.studio app and how you come up with the idea for it?