About 2 months ago, an article came across Hacker News about how to quickly validate startup ideas. The idea is basically as follows:

• Identify a potential problem you’d like to solve
• Create a landing page that states the problem and that you have the solution
• Give little or no insight in to your solution, just that it works
• Collect email addresses on your landing page
• Run ads tailored to your idea and landing page
• Tweak as needed to get conversions (sign-ups)

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