I’ve got a fair amount of app ideas and if I let my mind
wander I’m sure I could come up with more of them. Apps are mini businesses.
Businesses ought to be validated before one dives into them so as to
avoid investing tons of time, energy, and money into them only to see them
fail. I think if people validated their
business ideas before they did them the number that you hear of, “9 out of 10
businesses fail in the first 5 years” would be a lot less. If that was the case and the number was a
lot less then I’d certainly be a lot more motivated to start a business.
So yesterday I decided to do some app validating. At first I thought I needed to call book
publishers for an idea my brother and I have and thought better of it and
thought I’d just go straight to the end user to validate the idea. Funny thing happened. I more than validated the idea. First app I pulled up…1-5 MILLION
installs. What is funny is…this totally
stressed the hell out of me and even put a damper on the rest of my night. Why?
Cause I thought, “How am I supposed to compete with 1 million plus
download app? I can’t ever get that
many downloads and there is too much competition.”
What is crazy about that is I already KNOW that I need to
validate and competition is validation.
I already know many people/businesses have become successful by taking
an existing product and making it better and yet as I contemplated the
competition all those thoughts went out the window. CRAZINESS.
It wasn’t until this morning that I realized that I was
being a friggin’ idiot and that I’d validated our idea and that if my desire to
do the app was there I’d have some people who were willing to give it a try. Weird how our brains selectively forget
things when doing so destroys any excitement lol.
So if any of you have any business ideas and validate like
crazy, on your first investigation/try no less like I did, please don’t get
depressed.
Sincerely,
Brock
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