What actually counts as validation
Sign-ups aren't proof and interest isn't proof. Here's the test I use now, and what it looked like when I applied it to my own product.
Guides
The parts that don't change.
Everything here comes from eleven years of building and selling software products, including one expensive failure. It's the part that doesn't change month to month: how to find out whether anyone will pay before you build, and how to plan a product clearly enough that AI can actually build it.
These used to be part of a course. They're not a course anymore. Every guide stands on its own, nothing is locked, and you don't have to start at the beginning.
3 guides2 seriesFree, nothing locked
Before you build: validation
2 guidesSell it before you build it: a 5-step validation blueprint
How to get from one real problem to 10 paying customers without writing a product. Written for people building software for other businesses.
Before you prompt: planning
1 guideWhy AI shouldn't build your software in one go
Your 20-page document will fit, and the AI will build something. The problem is everything it decides for you along the way, and what that costs you later.