“me and a friend worked on it for about a week we got a domain we launched it and then we bought Google ads to get people to start clicking into the domain and immediately people started uploading bank statements which kind of validated the problem”

Build A One-Week MVP And Use Google Ads As The Real Demand Test

Angus skipped pre-launch validation entirely. He and a friend shipped a working MVP in about a week, bought Google search ads to drive targeted traffic, and treated actual bank-statement uploads as the demand signal. Watching strangers convert beats every friend-and-family survey.