What I learned from using a Typeform survey to build my company
Using a survey to confirm a problem, measure the desire to solve it, and learn what features potential users valued most.
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Author’s note: At the end of this letter is a list of areas I need help in if you’re able to.
Today I’m going to share all that I learned from using a Typeform survey to build my company, organized into the following three sections:
- Results
- Learnings
- Theses
The Celi survey received 323 unique responses. In the two weeks since concluding the distribution of the survey, I’ve had 73 follow-up conversations via email, phone, and google meet, with participants to further understand their responses, uncover product opportunities, and further avoid any self-deception. Each time, continuing to seek dissent, invite challenges, and risk the death of Celi. I’m grateful to those who accepted the invitation.
It’s my hope that how I am building Celi, with epistemic humility, can be admired or at least appreciated.
Ok, onto the results.
Results
The goal of the Celi survey was to confirm the existence of a problem, measure the desire to solve it, and learn what features potential users value most.
I also used the Celi survey as an opportunity to secure beta user commitments and discover any in-network belief capital available for pre-seed investments into Celi.
The survey too made Celi available to receive criticism by asking “Why should we not build a new consumer utility app or service that reminds you of the birthdays and life events of your friends and family?”
Here are the results from you and 322 of your peers:
Birthdays
- 91.33% of survey participants have forgotten a birthday.
- 69.65% of survey participants have tried to solve the problem of forgetting a birthday.
- The importance of solving the problem of forgetting a birthday ranked 2.68 out of 5, with 5 being very important.
