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BetaTesta - Pairing makers with testers

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BetaTesta is a platform that helps you as makers get the valuable feedback you need as you develop your products.

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Dan Zhao
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).
Sam Dickie
Maker
@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?
Agusti Fernandez Pardo
@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
Dan Zhao
@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?".
Sam Dickie
Maker
@schpn thanks for the input.
Sam Dickie
Maker
@dzhao - thanks for the suggestion. I will add this column in tomorrow morning 👍🏻
Abadesi
Hunter
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?
Sam Dickie
Maker
@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!
Jeff Osborn
Love. Love. Love. Thank you for hunting @abadesi and for making @thisdickie!
Jeff Osborn
@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...
Sam Dickie
Maker
@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! 🤘🏼
Sam Dickie
Maker
Hi Product Hunters! Super excited to be hunted again! Shoutout to Abadesi 🤘🏻 BetaTesta is a super simple platform to help pair makers with testers and what a better place to launch than on Product Hunt! BetaTesta is totally free for the time being as I’m trying to acquire more testers to the platform to get it kick started! I am totally aware that there are a few good beta testing platforms out there and have used many myself. However, I felt a lot where overly complex for my needs as a solo maker. Video recording, live chats and complex questionnaires are all well and good when you are a large organisation with a big budget looking to launch the next big tech product, but what about the side hustlers, makers, tinkerers and general startup enthusiasts! That's where BetaTesta comes in. It quite simply pairs products with testers, nothing more, nothing less! After creating NoCode a year ago and being relatively new to building websites and outside of a network to provide any support I tried many usability testing platforms and found them overly complex for my basic needs, not to mention the costs associated. So I thought I’d give it a shot building a platform myself with the hope it will help others in my previous situation. I would love to hear everyones feedback! Ah the irony! Asking for feedback for a beta testing platform 😬
Angel
Love this! Thanks @thisdickie
Sam Dickie
Maker
@angealest thanks a lot! 👍🏻
Nathan Maas
This is great @thisdickie I have been looking for exactly... this. All signed up. Well done and TU!
Sam Dickie
Maker
@natmaas cheers! Much appreciated! Let me know how it goes!
StartupGuys.net
That's really very useful!
Sam Dickie
Maker
@startupguysnet Thanks! give it a shot and let me know how you find it!
Etienne Teyssandier
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.
Sam Dickie
Maker
@eteyssan Thanks for the feedback! Goad to hear it has been of use!
Kyle Lynn

I go click on the visit link and malwarebytes went crazy to tell me that it protected me: cdn2.editmysite.com and marketplace.editmysite.com were the domains that triggered it when I visit betatesta.xyz

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Unknown

Cons:

Malwarebytes popped up twice by clicking on the URL

Sam Dickie
Maker
I just undertook two alternative malware scans of the site and both came back negative with no signs of malware.
Dim Georgak
@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.
Sam Dickie
Maker
@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.
Евгений Скрипник
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.
Xanthe Kueppers

Liked how I was able to filter the data for who to approach

Pros:

Easy to use, good visuals

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Would be useful to know who is currently interested (might have signed up a long time ago)