Did you talk to your users while building your product?

yes, keeping surveys with them

Yes,In today's global world, you can find your users anywhere

After the beta we are planning on doing a massive survey. I think theres such thing as too many cooks in the kitchen and when your development resources are limited - some insight from a testing cohort (pre launch) is great but a bunch of insight that just dampens your roadmap and limits your ability to ship code might be a hinderance.

Yes, For User testing and surveys.