Validating my idea got me to $2200 revenue in less than 2 months

I want to share my short story as I think it can be helpful to a lot of people on here.

This is for those of you who have tried every marketing strategy under the sun with no success (like I previously had).

Just two months ago I had been working hard for 7 months straight without getting any real interest or users to my product.

I had built two products and it was the same story for both: nothing.

When I started my third project I took the time to analyze what I’d done wrong with my first two products.

A commonality I found was that I didn’t talk to anyone before building them. I just made assumptions that I thought made sense.

I tried validating them afterwards and the response was what I suspected. No interest at all from my target audience.

My products were to generic and there were better alternatives.

For my third project I used this pain point of building products no one wanted and I realized this is the problem I want to solve. It’s a problem I experienced myself and I desperately wanted a solution to it.

So this time I reached out to my target audience before jumping ahead. I created a post on Reddit and shared a survey that helped me understand my target audience better.

Specifically: - How they’re currently solving the problem - How big of a pain it is to them - How much they would pay for a solution - Their opinion on my solution idea

The response was good so I decided to move ahead and build the MVP. Building it took about 30 days.

When it was finished, I shared it with the same people who responded to my first Reddit post.

That’s how I got my first few users.

To keep growing I posted and engaged in communities relevant to my target audience on X and Reddit.

Just after two weeks I had gained 100 users which is more than I could ever have imagined, and about 100 more users than I had ever had for any of my other projects.

Finally getting users for my project was the best feeling, and in my opinion I owe it to validating the idea this time.

My project continued growing and less than two months later I find myself at $2200 revenue, which is crazy since it feels like it was yesterday I was struggling just to get anyone to sign up for my projects.

Anyways, I thought I’d share this and maybe it can help you in case idea validation is something you skipped before you started building.