Will It Fly?
by Pat Flynn · first published 2016
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books?” ↗I am more than half way through this book Will It Fly by Pat Flynn. He lays out this pretty easy to use method to help you build a market map and do customer development for free. I would say give this a try and you may get more data to make a better idea…
on “Ask HN: How do I know if I'm building something only myself find useful?” ↗read the book Will It Fly by Pat Flynn, he lays out a method for finding out how to reach your target market. Also there is a book co-authored by the creator of DuckDuckGo called Traction that is very useful in testing out marketing…
on “Ask HN: My site is better than that of competitors, how do I make my site known?” ↗I would highly recommend getting a copy of the book Will It Fly by Pat Flynn. His method of building a market map will help to validate the idea.
on “Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea?” ↗…time on these projects only to hear crickets at launch. Here are a couple of books that I found helpful for getting me to approach things from a different perspective: $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau Will It Fly by Pat Flynn This is Marketing by Seth Godin
on “Ask HN: HN complains, I propose solutions, nobody cares. Why?” ↗I you read some of the lean startup type books, you get the idea that you need to speak to customers first. Pat Flynn had this idea of making a market map in his book Will It Fly. I think this is similar to Amy Hoy's Sales Safari. The idea is to go around online forums and other places where users are having discussions. You look for pain points by certain keyword questions.…
on “Ask HN: Is Product Market Fit Just Luck?” ↗try Medium, Quora, or try the reverse market technique outlined by Pat Flynn in the book Will it Fly
on “Ask HN: How do you find influential bloggers to promote your product” ↗Have you read Pat Flynn’s “Will It Fly”?
on “Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've no distribution?” ↗I think #1 is the key to the whole thing. I love how Pat Flynn talked about building a market map in his recent book Will It Fly. I think this method is very helpful in finding out if what your doing is something people want. Derek Sivers of CDBaby has this same mindset. He has always worked off the pull method rather than the…
on “Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail” ↗I think you could buy the book or audio of Will It Fly by Pat Flynn and get most of the same process for a lot less. Nathan Barry wrote a book call Authority that talks specifically about making an ebook or info product.
on “Ask HN: Are side-projects still a good way to generate passive income?” ↗I have not built anything that has made big money. All I can say is try to do a market analysis to see who the competition is and where there are opportunities within the space. Pat Flynn's Will It Fly book covers this pretty well under the market map section.
on “Ask HN: How to find profitable business ideas?” ↗A book recommendation that deals with exactly this topic: Pat Flynn's Will it fly? https://patflynn.com/book/will-it-fly/
on “Ask HN: Should I give up and get a job?” ↗"The new business road test" - John Mullins "Will it fly" - Pat Flynn "Start marketing" - Rob Walling (https://robwalling.com/assets/ebook.pdf) I recommend the article on "Why Startup Founders Should Stop Reading Business Books" ;) https://youtu.be/19WpIbBhxJU…
on “Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups?” ↗…7 years been trying to make something, but have not had much success. Build it and they will come has been a failure for me. I am trying to use some of the methods Pat Flynn talks about in his book Will It Fly. Look for the audience first, the one that has an existing problem.
on “Ask HN: Where am I going wrong?” ↗