u/Few-Design126

For more than a year, I wanted to build a startup. Every day I was thinking about ideas, trying to find something, but I could never really reach a conclusion.

So I believe that not having a business idea actually led me to have one.

I imagine some of you might also struggle with this: fear, not understanding the market, not knowing if the idea makes sense, and many other things.

My SaaS is pretty interesting, and in case you want to test it, it’s called delfy.app.

You describe your SaaS idea, startup, company, feature, or anything else you have in mind. Then you run a simulation with multiple personas, where each one has its own identity, almost like a real person, and each one evaluates what you’re thinking about building.

It generates 100+ personas and more than 30 advanced metrics.

How do you understand a market you are new to?

I have been thinking about how difficult it is to start a business in a market where you do not have much experience.

Competition is normal, but when there are already larger players and you do not fully understand the audience, pricing, buying behavior, or real pain points, everything becomes much more unclear.

For people here who have started or entered a market they did not know well: what helped you learn it properly?

Did you rely on customer interviews, competitor research, talking to other founders, testing landing pages, communities, or something else?

Also, what were the mistakes you made early on when trying to understand the market?