How can investments be attracted to the project?

Question

Startups

Hello.
I decided to implement a mobile application (client-server), which, according to the idea, is a platform with a large number of users. I myself am a programmer (with little experience, but, nevertheless), but unfortunately I am not competent in matters of mobile development and web application development.
I hope that after puffing for a few months, I will be able to implement something like a demo version on my own (well, so that I can push something).
However, I understand that I won’t be able to implement a product that can be released (even if I launch it and something falls (and it will), then I’m unlikely to be able to fix it with sufficient speed). After all, in order to launch a project, you need both developers for mobile platforms (or at least one, for starters), and a backend developer, an admin (preferably).
The question is, will such a "probe" be of value to a potential investor, so that he will allocate money to hire these same developers? Well, from this follows another question that an investor can ask, what is the value of my probe, if you still rewrite it from scratch (well, or at best, radically alter / finish it)?
Comrades, if anyone has come across or is spinning in a similar area, please advise the correct vector, I will be grateful!

Answer 1

IMHO
You do the project yourself or a team of like-minded people, and investors (like vultures) will flock themselves - if it's "tasty".
Doing a project with a "sharpening" for an investor is somehow strange.
Investors are smart people, they won’t get into the raw, even if there is a prospect, and if there is a very big one, they will carefully listen to you, everyone will remember and gather their team.

Answer 2

More than once I came across the advice on the Internet:
Make a landing page as if the product is ready or will be launched soon, and leave an email collection form to let you know when it can be used.
Put analytics on the landing page, for example, from Google
Buy ads in Adsense for $100 and watch conversions.
You can make several landing pages, with different pricing policies, design for different segments, and see what works best.
I think these figures will be of interest to the investor, how much one transition cost you, and how many transitions turned into a "client", i.e. left an email, what price is the most successful, etc.
Order the design of a couple of pages from the designer and show them on the landing page to potential clients, then make sure that the product that you have in your head matches the expectations of the market.
Well, I will add:
You can prepare a standard pitch from a dozen slides, you can see examples of celebrities here:
https://attach.io/startup-pitch-decks
and buy a ready-made set of templates here: https://basetemplates.com/pitch-deck- template
or find on the Internet something similar
on the slides the goal is to explain what the "pain" of the user is, and what kind of "pill" you offer,
the slides are short in essence
and it would be appropriate to place your market research there
and send it to potential investors by email, show pictures on the phone and explain in words or pitch at all, God forgive me, startup conferences.
People are lazy creatures, and they really don’t like to read a lot of text, either it’s 12 slide pictures with 5-10 words per page, and the graphs of the expected profit are very beautiful, another thing.
But I often heard that many investors are primarily interested in the team, because. You can always pivot, but it's not easy to change teams.
Therefore, it makes sense to start with hackathons, gather like-minded people, preparing a demo or mvp, at the same time practice proving that your plan will work and rethink everything a few more times.

Answer 3

You can try crowdfunding.

Answer 4

The question is whether such a "probe" will be of value to a potential investor,

The investor is not interested in the probe, but in its prospects. If you can show the potential of the product, preferably in numbers, then you may be lucky with the investor. Only the numbers should not be from the ceiling, but more or less real. In short, you need to test the demand for your product.

Answer 5

I decided to implement

At this stage - real investment in any way.
Unless - family, friends, fools. That is, borrow from friends.
A real investor is not interested in dreamers. Believe me, he sees more than enough dreamers.
A real investor is interested in your project at the stage when you started implementation, when you received at least a minimally working product.

Answer 6

To understand whether your product will have value, you can create a project on a crowd platform and see the demand for your idea. But crowdfunding is not for the lazy. It will have to be beautifully presented and promoted so that as many people as possible see and appreciate it. For ideas in your field, there is a crowd platform https://futland.ruLand of the Future. It is just for inventions, technologies in the field of IT, games, applications and much more. Projects can be created on any terms, with financial returns (business with a large number of people), with commodity returns (creativity, startups, ideas, gadgets, services) and gratuitous (social and charitable projects). Placing a project is free, when collecting 50%, the platform transfers funds to you. Projects with financial returns are implemented in stages, the total budget is divided into goals, and after collecting for the next goal, the platform transfers money. All people on the planet are interested in the ability given to someone from birth to manifest and develop) Good luck.