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Reema Singh
Reema Singh

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I Built the First Version Before Hiring Anyone

I had been collecting ideas for a SaaS product for months.

The problem was that every time I thought about actually building it, I started thinking about developers, budgets, timelines, designs, and everything else that comes after the idea.

So I decided to remove all of that from the first step.

I opened Greta and built the first version myself.

I described the product, explained the main workflow, and started iterating.

The first version wasn't perfect, but that wasn't what I needed.

I needed something I could use.

Once I had it, I could finally see where the idea was weak.

One feature made no sense.

Another needed a completely different flow.

And the homepage was trying to explain five things when it only needed to explain one.

Those are things I probably wouldn't have discovered from a document.

Building with Greta gave me something much more useful than a specification: a working starting point.

Once the idea proved itself, I could think about what needed serious engineering.

But I didn't have to hire someone just to find out whether the idea was worth building.

That saved me from making a very expensive guess.

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