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BetaTesta — Pairing makers with testers
BetaTesta is a platform that helps you as makers get the valuable feedback you need as you develop your products.
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This is cool, I particularly love how you can search for testers based on their interests etc so you can work with your target audience. How do you source your testers @thisdickie?
@abadesi Hey! This has just launched but I will be recruiting from via my current subscribers through NoCode.tech, Reddit groups, Indi Hackers forum and through my own network!
@abadesi @thisdickie Just signed up to become a tester. @thisdickie Have you considered including a question about mobile OS preference to help filter for makers and testers? I have access to Android so if I get only iOS emails to test I might get annoyed, then bored, then opt out. Just a thought...
@jeff_osborn thanks for the feedback. I do have a tag for iOS and Android against each tester so you can filter by either of those tags. Hopefully the makers consider this before contacting a tester! I will keep an eye on this. Thanks again! 🤘🏼
This is great @thisdickie I have been looking for exactly... this. All signed up. Well done and TU!
This is awesome! Thanks for building the list! Just 1 point of feedback, the skills & interests column feels a bit too generic to use. For example, here's one specific use case I have - I am trying to get feedback & polish the onboarding of my app. Looking at the list, I am not sure who to contact. Maybe adding tags that indicate the types of products they are willing to test might be more helpful? (i.e. "social apps", "productivity apps", etc).
@dzhao Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. Great suggestion. It's a tough balance as on one hand I want the registration process to be relatively simple to ensure testers sign up, and on the other hand the more information the better for the makers to target particular testers. That being said, one additional column to that effect asking users to detail the type of websites and apps they would like to test will certainly help makers. Not sure if this should be a free to type column or pre-determined set of tags to select. Thoughts @dzhao?
@dzhao @thisdickie I would add real world examples of each category, ask a user which apps already use, and then get the data from there normalized of -social/shopping/wiki/ecommerce/ whatever tags
@thisdickie From my experience building forms, pre-determined sets of tags are best. However, to start, you might be able to get at a lot of this by just asking a simple q like "why did you join BetaTesta?".
@dzhao - thanks for the suggestion. I will add this column in tomorrow morning 👍🏻
Liked how I was able to filter the data for who to approach
Pros:Easy to use, good visuals
Cons:Would be useful to know who is currently interested (might have signed up a long time ago)
@thisdickie This looks very promising! Nice one!
One thing that I'm not really sure if I missed or if it's not really clear is whether this is all about voluntary beta testing, or if people are actually hiring freelance testers through your platform.
@dgeorgak06 Thanks for the feedback and good question. The idea is that the makers reach out to the testers via email, introduce themselves and ask if they would be interested in providing a brief usability review of their website or app. The maker could offer an incentive, for example discount on their product or service they are selling or lifetime access for free if it was a saas product or a gift card. It not meant to be a job board for freelancers. So far i have got some fantastic feedback from makers who have already approached the testers and got some great quality feedback.
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That's a really cool and useful tool - not to mention that it is free and that there is no waiting list. I have used it and already gotten some useful feedback from the testers a few hours after first getting in touch with them.
I bought access and emailed several testers from the list which are relared to social media to test my product which is for social media managers. Send about 10 emails, got zero replies, no people I contacted registered at the service. The most useless waste of 5 GBP in my life.
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