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I'm working on a website that I'll need beta tested soon. It's a startup. Where should I go to get a good pool of testers? It would also be great to have a good pool of hackers who can show security holes before it's released.

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Check out this thread - answers.onstartups.com/questions/17275/… – vellad Jan 4 '11 at 19:24

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You can get great feedback at http://news.ycombinator.com make sure to post in the "Ask" section.

Also, you can try to submit your startup to http://betali.st

You should also submit your startup to as many blogs and bloggers as possible.

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+1 for betalist, w00t! – Kirk Strobeck Jan 4 '11 at 21:17
+1 for hacker news (news.ycombinator.com) – Ricardo Jan 5 '11 at 4:31
+1 for betalist, although I might be a bit biased because I am the founder of it ;) –– You can submit your startup here: betali.st/submit – marckohlbrugge Jan 5 '11 at 13:03
@marckohlbrugge Ha, nice :P – Kirk Strobeck Jan 5 '11 at 13:12
Betalist looks fine, but anyone knows something similar for desktop apps? – jitbit Jan 23 '11 at 9:43
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You can use the following services to find beta testers.

  1. Prefinery

  2. uTest

  3. Centercode

For security testing, I would suggest to look at hosted services such as

  1. iViZ

  2. Fortify

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+1 for Prefinery - makes the managing of beta testers a lot easier. – Ricardo Jan 5 '11 at 4:29
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I would like to invite you to submit yours to http://startuplift.com as well.

Best, Pete

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I have been fairly successful finding beta testers in LinkedIn and Twitter, by providing a link to a landing page that has some information about my web app. In LinkedIn I just ask the question about people wanting to do beta testing and there is usually a good number of people willing to try.

I usually use unbounce.com to create landing pages.

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