"I talked to 100+ potential users before writing a single line of code. Here's what nobody tells you about that experience." from Reddit r/saas, ranked #19. By AdCrazy2912, 1 score, 0 comments. Data from Daily Trends.
I talked to 100+ potential users before writing a single line of code. Here's what nobody tells you about that experience.
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- AdCrazy2912
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- 3/25/2026, 10:21:23 PM
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- 3/26/2026, 12:00:00 AM
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Everyone tells you to "talk to your customers" So I did. I spent weeks having conversations with founders, marketers and solo builders before I built anything with no product and no demo. Just questions and kept taking notes that slowly became overwhelming. I thought I'd come out the other side with clarity. Instead I came out confused, humbled and weirdly more excited than ever. Here's what actually happened. The first 10 conversations were useless and that was my fault I went in with a hypothesis I was secretly in love with. So every conversation I was unconsciously steering people toward confirming what I already believed. I'd ask "does this problem frustrate you?" instead of "walk me through what your week looks like." People are polite. They told me what I wanted to hear. I walked away thinking I'd validated something which I hadn't. The shift happened when I stopped asking about my idea and started asking about their life. The moment everything changed Conversatio...