Validate your product even before MVP

I want you to welcome to the first issue of WaitlistGuide Newsletter, weekly tips on that is designed to build your business. You’re doing all the hard work with building. I want you to help with your marketing and growth.

I’m caparing, founder of WaitlistGui.de. You can always reach me by simply replying to this email or messaging me on 𝕏 @bcaparing. I’ve just started to actively use my X account posting my success and failure stories, so if you’re looking out cool accounts under 100 followers, that’s your sign to follow!

I’ll respect your time and your miserable attention span so will keep these weekly updates short and sweet, max 2 minutes to read. Let’s getting to it./

Build - Market - Fail → How to break your entrepreneurial karma

Let’s face it. Your marketing strategy sucks. You’re building products with grace, announce it through various channels, and none converts.

Next? You rage quit, go back to work on 9-5 job you hate and keep make your boss rich until you feel motivated again to re-start with a new idea until you fail again.

What went wrong? Was it because you don’t famous-enough in X , was it because you banned from Reddit’s weird moderation? Was it because Trump’s tariffs?

Having an audience and being able to pick right platform on where your audience are is important, but marketing actually starts way earlier than your MVP launch.

Marketing starts while building it.

It sounds so simple, so direct but you can’t believe how many founders are approaching this in a waterfall way and wait their product to be perfect to start their marketing. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have thousands of followers for traction, start from ZERO, show up everyday, build in public and share what problem are you solving through various of channels. You’ll be shocked the results after a while that you started 50 impressions per post. How to get first customers deserves a full edition of a newsletter, which I’ll do in next editions of the newsletter. Which gives you a good reason to subscribe!

Are waitlist are worth it?

Short answer, heck yes! To consolidate your traction and launch preparations, you need a waitlist. Create a beautiful landing page, explain what your product will solve, and start collecting emails! What’s more beautiful, now you can list your waitlists, on WaitlistGuide to enable early adaptors to know about your product. A ProductHunt like platform to get more visibility to your waitlist and make sure you get most traction and feedback from your potential customers!

I wish there’s a way to increase my waitlist’s visibly.

What if there’s a Product Hunt like platform for waitlists? What if you can collect feedback and let your potential users know about the cool thing you’re working on even before your MVP? Wouldn’t it be so useful? I completely agree therefore I’ve recently launched Waitlist Guide, a platform that is designed to connect your solution with your early adopters. It’s extremely simple to use, add your waitlist, set a launch date, go live and collect feedbacks. Give it a shot!

Last week’s leaderboard on Waitlist Guide

Here’re the last week’s top voted waitlists. Drumrolls please 🥁🥁🥁

🥇 Shipic - Modern Cloud Hosting to deploy ship apps easily.

🥈 IndieKitHub - Internet's biggest resource for indie makers.

🥉 WaitListKit - Create beautiful waitlist pages, collect signups, and automate emails.

Inspiration of week

It’s indeed not a rocket science, it’s matter of showing everyday.

That’s a wrap for this week. Happy building!