Visit Valet

After combing my personal network and hitting LinkedIn hard for a couple days I'm a bit discouraged.

I decided to create some social media accounts and try to engage with my audience there to start building awareness. After creating an Instagram account I almost immediately begin having success. My audience is on Instagram. I guess it makes sense since it's more of a visual industry. Since then I've had great luck and engagement connecting with people there.

https://instagram.com/visitvalet

I'm ready to start doing validation on the idea so I set out to find people in my target market. LinkedIn has always worked well for me in the past in other projects so I start there. After two days, many messages later, and very very little success I'm feeling pretty bummed.

With a pretty good idea of the early ideas of the product, I wake up in the middle of the night due to slight sickness and am thinking about a product name. I'm thinking about words like guest...concierge...host...stay...visit! Visit...concierge...valet! Visit Valet! The name hits and I check hover.com and it's available. An hour after waking, the name selected, domain name purchased, I'm back to sleep.

Later that day, I created a landing page describing the idea to share with people I'm connecting with. https://visitvalet.com

After spending a few months in the validation stage with a previous SaaS project, it is killed off. This paves the way for an idea I've had on the shelf for a while.

I want to take the paper guest book/welcome book in vacation rental homes or the bundle of information emailed to a guest upon booking and digitize it. A simple mobile-friendly website to make this information easier to access, better updated, and more interactive.

I took a couple days to brainstorm the idea more completely.