Validate Your Startup Idea in 30 Minutes (NO Code, NO Developers, NO Funding)
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What if I told you that you could validate your entire startup idea — prototype, landing page, and all — in less than 30 minutes?
When we shot this video, our app did NOT look like this
No code. No developer. No fundraising deck. No wasted months chasing something customers might never want.
Sounds impossible? It’s not anymore.
I’ve done over 30 Intro calls with founders lately, and I can’t tell you how many of them are stuck in the same trap.
They’re spending months (or even years) paying developers to build an MVP before they’ve even tested whether anyone actually wants what they’re building.
They tell me they’re trying to raise money, find a technical cofounder, or hire engineers to get their product off the ground.
The truth is, you don’t need ANY of that.
Before “minimum viable product,” you need a minimum buyable solution — something simple, scrappy, and fast that gets real signal from real people.
Today, that’s never been easier.
Back when I started my own company — a concierge trip planning app called Journy — I didn’t have these tools.
I was manually creating custom itineraries in spreadsheets, just to test whether anyone would even trust a stranger online to plan their trip.
Turns out, they did. People started paying $50 per trip plan, and that was my first sign of product–market fit (and also what helped me close my $600K pre-seed round in less than 1 month — if you’re stuck in fundraising limbo, book a call with me).
But, I had to learn front-end coding from scratch. I spent over 50 hours on Udemy courses just to build a basic homepage.
I’m embarrassed to show you, but the left is my actual first homepage. This is how far 50 hours of coding (as a beginner) got you back in 2015.
Now? You can create a rich, dynamic homepage with solid marketing copy in just a few minutes.
In the video below, I’ll show you how to:
✅ Use ChatGPT to instantly generate a product requirements document (PRD) for your idea.
✅ Use Figma Make to create a clickable prototype you can show users for feedback.
✅ Use v0 by Vercel to spin up a polished landing page that communicates your value proposition and collects emails from interested users.
This exact process is what I wish I had when I was starting Journy that would’ve saved me months.
Because once you can show your concept, get a few people to sign up, and hear their reactions — that’s when you know you’re onto something.
Not when you’ve spent $10K on code or you’ve sunk in so much time that it makes pivoting painful.
So before you hire, raise, or build — take 30 minutes to validate.
Let’s get started 👇
