Ask HN: How to validate SaaS MVP without writing code?
We've been working on a couple of SaaS products on our own, that involves SEC Filings, including Insider Trading data ( Form 4,5, 3), Holdings data ( Form 13-F) and Corporate Filings ( 10-K, 8-K etc)
We've written a lot of code, designed databases, API endpoints etc, but I'm not sure how we should validate that
1) there is a need for such a service, and
2) people will pay for this service.
I looked in Quora and reddit and a couple of quant forums, and there are questions posted asking for SEC EDGAR API, or normalized SEC filings data. But we don't have any real contacts or real target user and I don't know how to find them.
I know that your should not be writing any code and validate the need for a pain point you are solving, and I am concerned that we are coding and developing stuff for months without actually validating the MVP / finding Product Market Fit.
I hope you understand my questions and predicament. Any advice on any of this would be really helpful.
Last thing I want to do is spend months coding and building and then find out 1) no one wants this or 2) no one will pay for it cos it's not a painful enough pain-point or there are already established players (i.e. problem already solved efficiently)
Thanks in advance.
[ If you have more questions or want to advice / help me in private, my email is in bio.]