The legendary Michael Seibel (founder Twitch, Investor Y-Combinator) once said the most important thing when launching a new business idea is to build an MVP. The most simple version of your idea that people can try.
So with that in mind, I built and have just launched Cosmic Deals - https://cosmic.deals 🚀
What is it?
A site for finding and posting the best deals you find on the internet. But here's the kicker/USP - You earn points for posting deals, and even more for upvotes on those deals. You can then cash in those points for real world benefits like Amazon Vouchers 💸
What was the biggest hurdle?
Building a parser for retrieving the image from ANY site. That is hard. 😰
So now I look to you, Indie Hackers for validation on this idea. The site will have bugs. It's a beta/MVP. But the idea is there. Is it good? Would you use it?
I hope to share every moment and statistic with this community in a truly transparent way ❤️
Thanks in advance!
There are already tons of sites for this, so your fight will be in finding users for it. If you offer Amazon vouchers for 'hunting' deals, maybe you can go to these "make money using surveys"-like forums and try pitching people there. Also there are hundreds of saving forums where you can validate the second part.
Thanks for your feedback! Very good points. The theory is that when people see that they get rewarded vs posting for free from other sites, they’ll switch in droves.