Test demand for my side hustle in one weekend
A small, cheap weekend test that shows whether real people will pay before you invest more time.
The prompt
Help me design a quick weekend test to see whether people will actually pay for my side hustle.
The offer: [WHAT I'D SELL, in one sentence]
Who it's for: [SPECIFIC GROUP - e.g. "busy parents in my town", "small Etsy sellers"]
Where I can reach them this weekend: [my network, groups, forums, social accounts, local spots]
Budget for the test: [AMOUNT - can be $0]
Hours I have: [e.g. "6 hours Saturday, 3 hours Sunday"]
Previous step (optional): [PASTE my day-job conflict check, so the test avoids anything flagged as risky]
Design a test that asks for a real commitment (a pre-order, deposit, booked call, or signed-up waitlist with a price shown), not just "would you use this?" opinions.
Give me:
1. The one hypothesis I'm testing and the pass/fail number, decided before I start (e.g. "3 paid pre-orders from 40 people reached").
2. The simplest version of the offer to show, plus the exact wording of the post or message I'll send (2 variants).
3. A Saturday/Sunday schedule, hour by hour.
4. A simple tracking table: Channel | People reached | Replies | Commitments | Notes.
5. How to read the result: what counts as a strong signal, a weak signal, and a clear no - and the next move for each.
6. How to handle money taken during a test (refund policy, what to tell buyers if I don't proceed).
Keep it honest: no fake scarcity or claims about a product that doesn't exist yet without saying it's a pre-order.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- WHAT I'D SELL, in one sentence
- my network, groups, forums, social accounts, local spots
- AMOUNT - can be $0
- e.g. "6 hours Saturday, 3 hours Sunday"
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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