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Do their eyes light up and they kinda say, oh my god. I didn't even think about this, but now you show me this. It's like, I have to have this, or is it like, oh, yeah. That's kinda cool. There's so many other things going on.

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“I didn't even think like, I just kinda wasn't thinking about this, but now you show me this.”

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do their eyes light up and they kinda say, oh my god. I didn't even think like, I just kinda wasn't thinking about this, but now you show me this. It's like, I have to have this, or is it like, oh, yeah. That's kinda cool. You know? But it just you know, there's so many other things going on. Like, yeah. I could see how this would be helpful, but right? Like, which of those two? So I'm curious. When you started calling customers in the early days of the first five, the first 10, what kind of response did you get? Yeah. I would love to say

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Vivid customer validation framework that every founder needs to understand. The contrast between 'have to have this' vs 'kinda cool' reactions provides a clear litmus test for product-market fit that's highly quotable and actionable.

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We actually submitted our application a little bit late because we weren't planning on applying to YC, and then we probably saw a tweet or something. We were like, oh, we should do that. We had this broader vision on what we wanted to do, but we were just working on that first workflow.

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We actually submitted our application a little bit late because we weren't planning on applying to YC, and then we probably saw a tweet or something. We were like, oh, we should do that. We had this broader vision on what we wanted to do, but we were just working on that first workflow.

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