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How to test your startup idea before developing it

We’ve all been there, you have a startup idea but are not sure if you should make it, because you don’t know how many people are interested in your idea?

Then you ask yourself the question of “Should I spend my time building this even tho I don’t know how people will react to it?”.

I am going to show you how to showcase your idea to the internet very quickly, to get feedback ASAP.

Creating a landing page

First, what you need the most is a landing page with a waiting list. I strongly recommend using Bolt or if you aren’t technical, using Hostinger.

The advantage of Bolt is, it’s free and after downloading your code you can deploy it anywhere. My most preferred choice is Cloudflare pages because of the clean looking *.pages.dev domain. You will be amazed with how Bolt is ready to make a clean looking website in just seconds, and tweaking it should only take some minutes.

Add a waitlist

After that, we need to connect the landing page to a waitlist, in this case we will be using Waitlist

Creating a wishlist is done in seconds, and interacting with its API doesn’t even need an API key, just send a request with the email and waitlist ID, and everything should work. To look further into the API, you can read their documentation: Waitlist Documentation .

const response = await fetch('https://api.getwaitlist.com/api/v1/signup', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
email:email,
waitlist_id:waitlist_id
}),
});

Voilà!
Now you have a product landing page with an integrated waitlist. You just have to send the link to lots of forums, Discord servers, real life people, and see if people join your waitlist!

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