How to Validate Your Startup Idea for Free in 2025 (No Tech Skills Needed)

Today, anyone — anywhere in the world — can disrupt entire markets from the comfort of their apartment.

If you’re thinking about starting your idea without technical knowledge, now is the best time. Many tools offer free tiers, and AI tools often provide free usage due to strong competition. You can accomplish a lot on your own.

1. Validate Your Idea with a Simple Blog Post

Medium gathers people of various interests

If you have a blog, social media, LinkedIn, etc., sharing an article about the pain points you’re trying to solve can help validate whether it resonates with your future customer group. It also helps you gauge whether you have initial reach to your target audience.

Writing an article on your own platform or asking for a guest post by a technical editor (like me) is also an inexpensive way to conduct early research.

For publishing, you can use platforms like Medium, LinkedIn, or Substack. There are also specialized platforms depending on your target audience.

When you do this, make sure to track statistics so you can see how many people actually read the article or engage with the content — through likes, comments, or shares…