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by Thomas Wu📣 Distributestarted 3h ago
?Built a landing page to validate demand. Zero signups. Now what?
I have an idea for a tool that solves a problem I personally have — explaining why prediction market odds moved (Kalshi / Polymarket). Instead of building for 3 months first, I made a landing page with a waitlist to validate demand. Posted it on Twitter and Reddit. Zero signups. Now I’m in this weird spot: I can’t tell whether the problem isn’t real (just my weird issue), the landing page is bad, the channels are wrong, or all three. What’s the right way to disambiguate?
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From WeekHack’s How to Create a Waiting List Page and Indie Hackers’ How I got my first waitlist request before even launching a landing page threads: Key lessons include talking about work early, always being ready to catch interest, and starting with people rather than features. A simple, ugly page with an email capture form will tell you more about market demand than a thousand lines of perfect code. Pattern: prediction-market analytics is a niche audience — Twitter/Reddit broadcast won’t reach them efficiently. The faster path is to manually find 20 active Kalshi/Polymarket traders (Discord servers, comments under prediction-market posts, Twitter advanced search for I bet on Kalshi) and DM them with a single sentence: Would a tool that explains why X market moved be useful to you? I’m building one if so. If 15 of 20 say no, the problem is narrow; if 15 say yes, you have your real distribution channel. Twitter and Reddit gave you zero because they’re broadcast — your audience requires search-and-DM.
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