advice candidate goes to: this-edition V villager
Do not make them apply: 'we have twenty, would you like one, or shall I give it to someone else'
'Apply for a chance to be considered' asks for work before there is anything in hand and inverts the relationship: they are doing you a favour by using the thing. Say what it is in one sentence, that there are twenty in this round, that they are getting one because they were early, and ask yes or no. Give the first round to the people who paid for something before it was finished; it is a thank-you that is also the best test group, because they know enough to say where it is wrong, and their silence means the most.
Decided by. Nobody yet: a candidate for Dinis to read, comment on and decide (keep, rewrite, merge, cut, article first, later, not doing it).
Where it comes from
- Price it, then give it away How to offer it; For the agents running this, steps 1 and 2 (newsroom)
What it answers in the 2018 book
- none named
Where it goes
Chapter Your first price and your first ten customers, part Hands on, 2026 (drafting); topic Be a founder (or a one-person service).
Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: Count what matters: created, customised, used, and the minutes it cost the other side; set the stop rule first.
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