Inquiry for Hypany Template
I am building Hypany, an open-source tool for validating startup ideas.
Ever since Steve Jobs, founders have this weird obsession that they must know it all. But that's such a stupid guesswork. Founder as a group is its own niche and thus almost always wrongly guess the market. Lots of effort and money, and most importantly, founder's passion and youth are lost.
Thus, smart-enough people run an idea farm by pretotyping, also known as Fake Door Testing. You build a website first, and run ads on your targeted user groups and see if people are actually interested or not.
I have been close with the product and founding space, but unfortunately I haven't seen a SaaS that fully automates this idea farm. Thus, I see a potential in this idea and would like to inquire a deal.
What does Hypany mean?
It means three things.
- hypothetical company.
- hyped company.
- hyperparameter company
Keywords I am looking for are:
- Warmth
- Meritocracy
- Data-driven, Always Question Yourself
- Disprove Often
- Underdog
Keywords I am not looking for are:
- Cronyism
- Nepotism
- Oligarchy
- Cold
- Being Steve Jobs
So what's the task in hand
Surprisingly I am not seeking a SaaS design for Hypany itself. I am looking for templates for Hypany Tenants to use.
A user could create a hypothesis, which has landing pages. Like Webflow or Instapage, these page could be edited and customized for the user. I want you to research on how SaaS pages could be generalized and reduce the parameter of variance.
Functionally, there are some researches done online.
- Anatomy of a high-converting app landing page
- High Converting Landing Page Blueprint
- Anatomy of High-Converting SaaS Landing Page
They studied which components are there but did not consider how design patterns are reused and for each components, how the layouts (vertical, horizontal, bento...) and content could change. I need that study.
I am looking to strike a balance between design diversity and the least number of toggles, textboxes in the UI.
The final deliverable would be a reusable template with set of parameters to tune, and a couple example of how various the design could be.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
Sunghyun
Some random thoughts
- Serial entrepreneur implies you guess the market. If you want to minimize the odds of failure you need to be a parallel entrepreneur. Or, think like a farmer.
- Hackathons also implies the judges and panels "know the market", which I think is arrogant of them. No one can know the market. If they know the market 100% they better be investing than founding.
- Speaking of coldness, I don't want this tool to be a snobbish tool that high class Silicon Valley people use; I want it to be a welcoming, global tool
- 2014 and 2016 Uber Logo was cold. It felt like only top tech people could use it. 2018 Uber logo became more generic and welcoming.