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You don’t need a developer or a big budget to find out if your business idea can work. These guides show you how to use Bolt to test an idea with real people and figure out what to do next based on the evidence you collect. Each guide covers one stage of starting a business. It includes a video, example prompts you can copy and change for your own business, and a running example that follows Maya, an apartment cleaner who wants to start a move-out cleaning business.

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Who these guides are for

These guides can help if you:
  • Have an idea for a product or service but no customers yet
  • Are thinking about leaving your job to start a business
  • Want to test a business idea but don’t know how to get started
You don’t need to know how to code or have built a business before. If you’re new to Bolt, start with the Bolt QuickStart guide to learn how to build and publish a project.

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What you’ll learn

  • How to write a hypothesis that tests whether people want your product or service
  • How to build a landing page with a waitlist and test pricing before your product exists
  • How to track visits, signups, and where your visitors come from
  • How to talk to potential customers so you learn what they need
  • How to decide whether to build, change your idea, or stop

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