Define idea viability (make reality check)

[Sammeeey]

Answer viability check questions by Andrew Gazdecki:

Before you write a line of code for your startup idea write down…

1. The customer
2. Their problems
3. Current solutions
4. Your solution
5. Why now
6. Why you

The last two are most important. Market timing and founder fit.

— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) November 23, 2021

Result of reality check

1. The customer

   User:

   • people who have "hobby" coding side projects and want to enhance them
   • people who have good technical skills, want to apply them creatively but don't have motivating ideas

   Customer:

   • people who want to get a foot into the programming field (by building a convincing, hands-on experience prove portfolio)
   • software companies
   • software consultants/freelancers
   • experienced programmers who are willing to support/consult/teach newbies in their coding projects

2. Their problems

   User:

   • Work/practice lonely
   • lack of certain (technical) skills to enhance their projects
   • lack of ideas/creativity
   • no marketing knowledge
   • poor knowledge of project communication/PR
   • little outreach/follower base

   Customer:

   • lack of technically skilled and teamworkable employees with hands-on experience

3. Current solutions

   • free/paid coding courses which teach lacked skills to do it on your own
   • coding meetups
   • discord server (for different languages, frameworks, technologies)

4. Your solution

   User:

   • find people with complementing skills to build unique portfolio together (to land a coding job eventually)

   Customer:

   • advertise for coding jobs

5. Why now (market timing)

   • high demand for coding jobs
   • high demand for skilled programmers
   • people willing to pay to get into coding jobs
   • people want to practice on side projects to get coding jobs

6. Why you (founder fit)

   • Was/Am in the struggle of finding a coding job: build unique portfolio to proove hands-on experience - know the challenge - few month ahead
   • also struggling to find people with complementing skills to work on coding projects together

Derived assumptions

• learners are willing to pay to find others with complementing skills to build a unique portfolio which is essential to land a coding job
• teachers are willing to pay membership fee to connect with people who are willing to pay to be supported in their portfolio building and job hunt process

Derived ideas

• target group: people who want to build a unique portfolio to land a coding job (and want to do it together)