Pioneer
Pioneer is an online 'gamified' kind of community accelerator. It allows players to give and receive weekly feedback on ideas and in turn either climb up or fall down a live leaderboard. Those lucky enough to get to the global top 50 are assessed as potential 'pioneers' where they have the opportunity to receive some investment along with some other perks from the Pioneer team.
I thought it might be interesting to collect my pioneer updates here as a bit of over time record of my general progress.
Week of December 14th
What are you building, in a sentence?
Was figuring out what to work on, now focusing on new startup job and Facebook course to sell on gumroad.
What are your KPIs?
- Ideas killed (Goal: 37 by December 4th)
- Ideas generated (Goal: 40 by November 27th)
What did you accomplish this week? Did you do everything you planned?
Lot of things changed this week but new focus for Pioneer on Facebook ad testing course to sell on gum road.
created new landing page below and done some prelim research on other handbooks and notion templates sold on product hunt
What do you want to have done by the end of next week?
push landing page across channels such as sub Reddits, indie hackers, and pioneers and chat to 5 people about what they want from the handbook
What would you like feedback on from the community?
landing page + if you are interested in using Facebook ads as a testing tool or otherwise, what are you most interested in learning?
Project website
https://www.betaben.com/facebook-ad-testing-handbook
Which of these best describes the stage of your project?
Idea/research
Week of December 7th
What are you building, in a sentence?
I was figuring out what I wanted to build, now think I'm settling on a marketplace for no code templates
What are your KPIs?
- Ideas killed (Goal: 37 by December 4th)
- Ideas generated (Goal: 40 by November 27th)
What did you accomplish this week? Did you do everything you planned?
Pushed this on to this week.
Took some time last week to re-evaluate my idea generation method which was really useful, feel in a much better spot. Also have have made some progress towards part time-startup jobs for some exposure to great founders while still being able to build
What do you want to have done by the end of next week?
Talk to 20 customers.
Using a landing page for a mailing list as a start point to see if there's anything here
What would you like feedback on from the community?
Nodeco.webflow.io
This landing page is in progress but some feedback on layout and messaging would be great! :)
Project website
Which of these best describes the stage of your project?
Idea/research
Week of November 30th
What are you building, in a sentence?
Not sure yet, exploring options, using this process
Interests>Markets>Problems>Ideas>Landing pages>Customer chats>MVP
What are your KPIs?
- Ideas killed (Goal: 37 by December 4th)
- Ideas generated (Goal: 40 by November 27th)
What did you accomplish this week? Did you do everything you planned?
Ideas = 38
Ideas Killed = 32
Remaining 6 turned into landing pages below;
cartrader.umso.co
leansoft.umso.co
dealercompare.umso.co
simpleusedcars.umso.co
nosweat.umso.co
supplrr.umso.co
Will use these to start customer conversations/message testing
What do you want to have done by the end of next week?
20 Customer conversations
What would you like feedback on from the community?
I'm previously thought going Market>problem>idea>customers>mvp was best but do you think Market>customers>problem>idea>mvp is better?
Project website
Which of these best describes the stage of your project?
Idea/research
Week of November 23rd
What are you building, in a sentence?
Currently exploring options, writing about it here >> betaben.com
What are your KPIs?
- Ideas killed (Goal: 37 by December 4th)
- Ideas generated (Goal: 40 by November 27th)
What did you accomplish this week? Did you do everything you planned?
- Reading/watching videos around startup idea generation
- Creating framework for generating and narrowing ideas
- Brainstorming
What do you want to have done by the end of next week?
Min 40 startup ideas
What would you like feedback on from the community?
My logic behind approaching idea generation (Interests > Markets > Problems > Ideas)
general thoughts on ideas so far
Project website
Which of these best describes the stage of your project?
Idea/research
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