Subash Chandra Bose A

As we step into new year, like all of you, I'm full of courage and passion to achieve my biggest goal for the year which is to make my startup successful. The first step has been to be more active on multiple platforms including Twitter. In twitter I've realised people encourage building in public specially for bootstrapped startups, so I decided to do the same and I'm very honest and open about it, showing all my weaknesses, flaws, struggles, challenges, strengths, strategies, and keeping nothing business critical. Do you think it's a good idea? Would you do the same? Any advise? Btw, If you're interested, I'm posting my journey here: https://twitter.com/mohsen74500451

Seriously, I completely agree that you should validate a product before building it. But what is the best/optimal way on validating a SaaS product? I have tried creating landing pages with a signup form, but that doesn't really tell me much. If I get 100 signups, is that ok to proceed considering the product doesn't even exist yet? Or should you try to get an X amount of users that are ready to pre-order and consider that as validation? Do you take into account the bounce rate? Or do you just go and create a bare-bones MVP - but nowadays, the standard for MVP is quite high, if I'm building the MVP I don't really think that that counts as early validation (maybe I'm wrong?) I have a strong suspicion that the answer to this is - that there is no right answer, but what is your experience with validating a product idea?