Ask HN: Need Help (Looking for volunteers)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1849947

by jaspalsawhney • 16 years ago

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I'm trying to validate a potential business offering and looking for volunteers to help me with suggestions/insights

You'll be an ideal person if 1. You work long hours/eat junk food? and/or 2. You find making home cooked meals to be an issue?

If your answer is 'YES' to any of the questions above !! I would appreciate if you can give me 15 mins of your time for a phone interview

Thanks

phamilton• 16 years ago

While it's good to find people interested, You aren't going to get a very good sample of normal people. Your business offering may be very applicable to a grand total of 20 people. Those 20 people may be the ones you are going to interview. They all say they love it, and you launch a business that only 20 people are interested in.

On the other hand, I'm sure you've done your homework and have figured out how big the target market is and now it's just a case of getting a sample within a market you already know to be big.

Udo• 16 years ago

Also, I think you'd get more people to volunteer more readily if you did an online survey. Phone interviews, who does that anymore?

jaspalsawhney• 16 years ago

Well - I did conduct a survey already and the results showed an interest and strong viability for the offering. From that we took it to the level we have defined a basic feature set on how we see we can solve the problem but now as phamilton understood - I need a set of people 5-10 who can validate some of the assumptions which we have made.

Ofcourse I can prorate the assumptions from the survey itself and start to go ahead and develop the functionality but before I do that I see value in talking to people who I reckon might be the ones using the service end of the day.

mqmouse• 16 years ago

Sure. Send me an email at daniel@mindquilt.com and I'll send you my phone number.

Ask HN: Need Help (Looking for volunteers)

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