To test a startup idea, what's your best tech approach?

Testing a startup idea is basically doing things that do not scale. 1. Build a landing page with a waitlist to capture emails and referral marketing (NoCode) 2. Create a social media profiles where your target is, start communicating your value, provide weekly updates to your audience 3. Get out and start talking to people 4. Build a prototype of your idea (NoCode; Figma) and start receiving feedback Doing all these steps takes time, but you will eventually know if your idea is worth investing more resources, time and money to scale. Imo start with nocode and when you're 99% ready (hint: you'll never be) then launch, learn, adapt and repeat!

The more low code your product has, the better. But remember, the advanced users will still try to use the code part for better customizing. So yeah, build for both kind of users - easy will drag more customers, complex part will keep them for a long run.

I think that it depends on the solution you are developing. But if you can do it with a no-code solution, go for it. For example, I have seen a few new SaaS that are simplifying the development of Chrome extensions. I would try that if I could reach point A to point B in no time.

Definitely start with no-code or low-code approach to build an MVP. More than that, just to validate an idea, you can build a simple landing page explaining what your future product will do and let people subscribe for a waitlist.

Indeed, popularity of NOCODE solutions is growing every year. I liked Zapier, for example. However, at Echo we still like coding more. In particular, we've built recently (in 2 weeks) an internal tool which can evolve to a startup using only PHP (Symfony). So, I voted for #2.

I believe a mix of the code and no code tools would be more effective. We can weigh one side based on the requirements, or make use of the best aspects from both.

Depends. Sometimes you need to implement a payments or develop an app to know a real interest from customers.

I think to start its generally best to prove out your concept as quickly and cost effectively as possible. No code tools are great for this specific purpose. As product market fit is found, and initial success is repeatable, then the transition to pure code is necessary.

I think what's important is how fast you can create your MVP and speedily make adjustments to fully test your idea. So, no-code, hand-coding, or a mix of both may work depending on the depth of knowledge you have for either method. 😁

I think the mix would make more sense. We can always weigh on a particular side based on the requirements or make use of the best from the both sides.

I will prefer a mix of both. As most of the pain points will be addressed if we use mix of both.

Make it clumsy , ugly with just the most important features working PERFECTLY, if people still use it , you're on to something 🙌

We're going out with a demo well ahead of launch that we plan to use as a baseline for customer responses, then adjust as frequently and aggressively as needed

prefer a mix of both

To test out your product will work or not, is the ultimate goal now. For that purpose, you need a simple MVP to share to your customers and get feedback. You don't need fancy websites or big tech tools at this time. Once you feel that your product is liked by others, then you can try out the most suitable tech tools.

Both is good.

Mix of both can help the most

I've become a huge fan of no-code after several failed attempts and building a technical team. I think no-code can be very efficient at building an MVP, and it's the only way I'm doing it from now on. Best of luck.

I think the best approach would be whatever allows you to move the fastest. If you are used to no-code tools and they allow you to publish something that could help you test your idea, then go for it! Personally, I am a coder, so I am closer to react/next than wordpress, etc. There is no silver bullet and mixing tools to test ideas shouldn't be an issue either.

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