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How Bootcamp Grads Can Validate Their Idea Before Building
Episode 76 of The Career Change Podcast with Fexingo tackles a common bootcamp grad trap: building a full app or product before checking if anyone actually wants it. Lucas and Luna walk through a concrete example from June 2026 — a former marketing coordinator who spent three months coding a scheduling tool only to find no one would pay. They break down the lean validation playbook: running a smoke test with a landing page and Google Ads for under $100, interviewing 20 target users in a week, and using a fake door test to measure intent. Specific numbers include a 4.2% click-through rate on…
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