Rachid

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🧑🏻‍💻 Product Manager by day.
📱 Shipping Consumer Apps by night.

[Rachid @indieappbuilder]

🚀 Method: How do you find and validate ideas for your product? This is my process based on my experience as a product manager 🧑🏻‍💻 in tech 👇🏻

1️⃣Step 1: Find your idea

Start by looking at your own problems. Chances are, you’re not the only one dealing with them. If you wish there was a digital solution for something, others probably feel the same and are craving a fix.

Another way is digging into online communities like Reddit, Twitter, or niche forums to see what people are complaining about.

You also don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Look at how TikTok’s video format got copied by every social app.

As a small builder, find a product that solves a real problem but has poor UX, missing features, or weak marketing. That’s your chance to build something better.

2️⃣Step 2: Validate your idea

Set up a simple landing page.

Drive some traffic (paid or organic i suggest paid as it's quick,) and see if people sign up, ask questions, or show interest. If people are converting (MVP) or joining the waitlist (No MVP), that’s a strong signal to move forward.

From there, keep on building and start gathering feedback from your early users and iterate based on the feedback you are getting.

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@CliftonSellers I started recently . Praying to not quit it again 🤞🏼

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Are you posting to X from your laptop or your phone?

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@JakeSnyder80dp @HoussamDesigner Yes true I know people who own pages with thousands of followers who happen to be from Tier 3 countries and don't even make $1,000

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Agree or Disagree ?

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In 2026, building an app is 90% marketing 10% coding.

Agree or disagree?

[Rachid @indieappbuilder]

In 2026, building an app is 90% marketing 10% coding.

Agree or disagree?

[Rachid @indieappbuilder]

@JakeSnyder80dp @HoussamDesigner 100K followers from India or a third-world country is basically useless. So in this case the $5K is better

[Rachid @indieappbuilder]

@HoussamDesigner Depends on where those followers are from and what niche. If they're not from a Tier 1 country in a high consummable niche, I'll take the $5K for sure 😅.

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@pcshipp Your active to paying subscriber ratio is way off. Why is it that way?

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@laxman_achx @HoussamDesigner why the food business exactly ?

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@Taniyatweets_ @HoussamDesigner 100% agree, but the question becomes: what is he going to pitch and to who with no portfolio or connections?

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@ifioknkem @HoussamDesigner But with no portfolio it's going to be really hard to convince people to buy whatever service you're selling. And with the time constraint, I don't think it's possible.

His best option is flipping IMO.

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@HoussamDesigner Sales. I'll probably start flipping on eBay, Facebook Marketplace... Due to time constraints, I can't rely on an algorithms.

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@CliftonSellers You are killing sheesh 🔥

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@CliftonSellers this is life goals 🙏♥️

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@HsanC_ Dayum that's impressive streak 🫡

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@prunier_issa @aryanlabde True you got it right. There's nothing wrong with optimizing your content for virality

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@eliana_jordan Organically, from Google Play

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@marclou @marclou give claude design a try it's really good

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@robj3d3 Congratz @robj3d3 🎉