A good way to find out what the market wants out of your platform is through a survey. So here's an example question that I created for you guys. What type of videos would you curate in our mobile app? So let's let's say you're building a video sharing app and or video curation app and you want to know what people want the most? Is it comedy and pets? If they choose those two, then the funny cat videos prevail once again.

Meow, meow meow. But maybe they choose sports and music. And that's an interesting combination. I mean, how would you, you know, combine sports and music and an app? Well, if the market tells you they want it, then that's what they want. And what I found is, the top five questions you want to add in a survey are the age of the person.

If they're interested in your platform, what are the features they would most want? How much would they pay for those features, and of course, their email address. So let's create one of these surveys from scratch. Using type form, you want to go to type form COMM And I'll wait for you to go there if you want. Sign up, create a free account. Don't pay for the pro version because the free version gives you just what you need.

And once you sign up, you want to click on this big plus button and click on start from scratch. Let's call this startup essentials. Well, that's what I'm going to call it. You want to call it something else. Okay. So the first thing is going to be a welcome screen.

Let's say let's call this video sharing app survey, or whatever you decide to call yours. You can add an image we'll just add this here. Have something there and hit save. Okay, and the first question is age, right? So we're going to drag and drop, you're going to click on multiple choice, you're going to drag and drop it here. And how old are you?

18 To 2425 to 3435 to 4445 to 75. Let's put that as a last one there. And it's required. Okay, and that's it. Let's save first questions done. Next one, is there interest?

We'll just do a yes or no. Would you be interested Or are you trying to make it short? Are you interested in trying out a new social video curation platform? Yes or no? If you decide you want more than yes or no, you can do a multiple choice instead and add maybe, or depends on the features etc. You can add other answers but we're going to keep this quick and simple.

The features they most want to use, let's do multiple choice. which features would you most want to try or use? Okay, let's say categories. Search, social sharing, you know, uploading videos aggregation from other sites, something like that, can you can do required multiple selections, you know, and again, you can add a video or sorry video Well, you could add a video that says here image or video, you can add a video or an image. So I'll put another video there. File too big, so at least we see that let's just put something there.

Okay and save another multiple choice, how much would they be willing to pay? How much are you willing to pay for those features? Or no, actually, if you upgrade your account to premium How much are you willing to pay each month $1 sign 199 $3 or 350-490-9999 maybe you can add a 750 in the middle there required multiple selections if they want. Save and then your email address. Just drag and drop the email here. If you'd like to be a beta tester, please enter your email address.

Put a description in there. Be promised no spam, just as a you know, let them know you're not going to spam them. All right, hit save, view my type form. hit start. Answer the questions. There you go.

That's your survey, you can now send this out to people. And they can answer it. And when you're done, I'll you know, I'll actually hit. I'll actually hit Done. Submit. So now if you go into analyze results, you'll see my answer.

There you go, and you'll be able to get lots of answers. So for example, in one of my other type forms, go back. You can look at analyze, first of all the metrics are first it shows you all the different types of people that have come to my survey results, you'll see it's much more in depth. You can download this as a spreadsheet to analyze the data even further, but this is a great way to get email addresses and Get Data, which I'm going to mention here. And the first thing is you don't want to add any fluff. So once you have those, those initial five questions, don't add anything else, until you have substantial amount of data to tell you that, you know, this is a good platform and people want to use it, then you can have a second survey that has a little bit more information in it to send to that same user base, which is what you're creating, you're creating a you're building a user base, because as you start getting feedback and data in your survey, these people are showing interest in your platform that's a user base.

So now you can send them a second survey a little bit more detailed to get more information out of them.