TLDR; I got 10 waitlist signups yesterday, personally emailed 8 of them, and only got 1 response so far. Would appreciate some thoughts about my process of validating this project and doing user research..
After my app got approved by Google, and users could safely use the live demo of my app, I posted here on IH and on Reddit.
My landing page has a link to a waitlist sign up, which asks two questions:
What's your email?
What problem are you trying to solve with our product?
Then I get notified when I get responses, and then I handcraft an email to everyone who signs up.
The email looks like:
Header: "magic: thanks for the interest!"
Body:
"""
Hello friend!
Jonathan here, building magic. Thanks for the interest in our simpler GA dashboard!
You mentioned your problem "getting simple analytics for less tech-savvy managers".
Does our live demo solve your problem to some extent?
Cheers!
Jonathan
"""
My goal was to make a small ask, for feedback on our live demo, to kick off a conversation, so that I could get to know the person and their needs better.
I felt like asking them for a 15 minute call was too much up front.
I got 10 signups. I've sent emails to 6 so far, and only got 1 response so far.
Although it's been less than a day, I am worried that I am doing this process of user research or problem validation wrong....
Am I?? Or am I just paranoid haha
I even just read "The Mom Test", so I feel like I should be better at this now š