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It’s a free (and freshly started) Substack and I would love your feedback.
https://handpickedberlin.substack.com/p/issue1?s=w
Atm validation data of my customer facing Docsend pitch (https://docsend.com/view/ewkqzza7izzsycf2) is as follows: 61 unique views on roughly 100 e-mails with 3 lifetime deals sold (not my mom and dad!). 77% avg viewed with several "would try it" or "would need to see more" feedbacks as well.
I am now stuck. There is interest in an extremely tough B2C market for a more tailored approach, which I cannot build myself; no-code will never ever work, people also quickly get bored by fake numbers in click-dummies. In order to make it work I would need a great product designer and an engineer (or two), probably in a funded co-founder mode.
Currently I am thinking I have these options: 1) park the idea for some time and wait for a better time, 2) kill it, 3) try to find investors (pre-seed, angel?), 4) send it to Copilot / Monarch and tell them to build it.
What would you do? Does it even make sense to try with an investor pitch deck? Apply for YC? What am I missing? More validation? If so, how? It feels like a mission impossible.
My validation signals are clearly skewed (I personally know all 3 customers, and majority of the unique views) and I am also aware that personal finance is extremely personal and behaviour driven topic (not to even mention cultural differences between continents).
Thanks a lot for your thoughts!
Background: Previously posted search for a co-founder on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25809962), worked on my idea for 4 months, read 70 papers on personal finance, did the whole Mom Test, Norman, Cagan, Thiel package, found a co-founder, made a landing page, collected roughly 100 emails, stopped working with co-founder and finally ended on docsend. I also wrote about this journey on my substack https://eightyfour.substack.com