How many times did you do this? I did 20+ times.
I got 200 people in my waitlist for one of my product, then went deep in building the product, without talking to those, and then abandoned the product.
- You don't need a beautiful landing page
- You don't need a perfectly working product
All you need is a way to get started with a very few customers, maybe just 2, then 20, then 200, and so on.
Make your initial customers happy, than trying to scale it for millions.
Remove the mindset that you are building the next Google, next [attach any successful product], they started very small. Facebook had 1 physical server for each university and they couldn't it make people talk between university for a while.
Break your grand vision into smaller pieces, the pieces should give value to your initial customers and also something that's monetizable.
Scaling and beautiful landing page comes next.