Manual-First Startup: Sell the Service Before You Build the Software

You do not need an app yet. You need a customer, a defined result, and enough paid work to reveal what the app must actually do.Most founders build the interface first and discover the operation later. They encode guessed inputs, guessed rules, and guessed workflows, then spend months patching the cases they never saw coming.The Manual-First Startup gives you a stricter path. Sell one narrow resul...