{"id":68,"date":"2026-02-12T02:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codeless.how\/?p=68"},"modified":"2026-02-12T02:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:57:03","slug":"validating-a-service-based-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codeless.how\/validating-a-service-based-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Validating a service-based business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This tutorial will show you step by step how to validate any service-based product MVP to test whether people want what you can offer. Mechanical Turk from Amazon recruits participants to perform tasks that are hard to do with computers but easy to do for people (such as screening for inappropriate images, summarizing content, reviewing websites, etc.) and Google Surveys allows you to survey different kinds of people. Both of these can be created with this tutorial. Total budget is a maximum of $110 (may not be necessary depending on what you\u2019re building). Total time is probably 2-3 hours worth of work, and you can start taking in money!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first step is to think of what service you want to test. In our case, let\u2019s do a survey panel. This can basically be replaced by any service you want though, from offering to deliver coffee to someone\u2019s door to helping them edit their writing, ordering them regular orders of flowers, and more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No-Code Service Product - How to Validate (Part 1)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vngp5mgp_Y0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then we\u2019ve got to make a few accounts. Let\u2019s start with Ship on Product Hunt, where you\u2019ll be getting your customers from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then you\u2019ll want to hop over to Stripe and create a Stripe account.&nbsp;Also hop over to Typeform and create a Typeform Account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No-Code Service Product - How to Validate (Part 2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Kam_Z8wW5g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then link the Stripe account to your Typeform, add any details you need in the Typeform, and copy the link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No-Code Service Product - How to Validate (Part 3)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2sKGl3uLxmc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Place the link on your Ship page, and turn it to promoted. You can pay for ads if you want, promote it through your network additionally. It\u2019s $80 to allow for promotion on Product Hunt\u2019s \u201cupcoming products\u201d page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No-Code Service Product - How to Validate (Part 4)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q7-YQQuM4IQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial will show you step by step how to validate any service-based product MVP to test whether people want what you can offer. Mechanical Turk from Amazon recruits participants to perform tasks that are hard to do with computers but easy to do for people (such as screening for inappropriate images, summarizing content, reviewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-service-business","category-stripe","category-tutorials","category-typeform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codeless.how\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codeless.how\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codeless.how\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codeless.how\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codeless.how\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/codeless.how\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/codeless.how\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codeless.how\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codeless.how\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codeless.how\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}