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How can i get expert people as early adopters? [closed]
I'm working to validate an idea. The prototype is live and we are working to launch the beta soon, but i'm looking for ways to approach bloggers to be early adopters.
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Sign ups for a beta launch. What are good indicators?
I have been working on a startup for some time now, and a couple of weeks ago we came up with an idea for a pivot (the original startup isn't getting the traction we were expecting).
To avoid the same ...
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How to get initial beta users?
We're building an awesome platform and we need to get beta users. I'm offering exclusive invites on craigslist, stumbleupon, and a few forums and it's not getting me much.
We're just trying to show ...
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For alpha/beta testing, should I charge users or pay users?
I'm creating a mobile app for small business wholesalers and the alpha will be finished soon.
I have done some face-to-face market research by visiting trade shows they exhibit in and showing them a ...
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Full Service Beta Launch, or Stripped Teaser?
I'm developing a search engine of sorts that will [eventually] have a myriad of features. In its current state, it is very capable of performing the most important function of all: intelligent ...
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What to ask on a beta testing survey?
I am nearly done with the development of a medium scale website and I want to do a bit of beta testing on the actual site. I am looking for some useful but somewhat generic questions that I should ...
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After private beta, when would a SaaS startup need a public beta before public launch?
We currently running an early adopter with about 30 users getting ready for a private beta of our SaaS collaboration/project management tool for Agile software development team. Lean Startup camp ...
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Is it wise to incorporate after beta?
We're two Italian developers, and we're about to release a software technology in open beta. However, we're not incorporated as this is a long-term side project of ours and we're both employed ...
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When to move from private into public beta?
I'm having an app in private beta for some months now. When should I move it into public beta?
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It's ok to launch a software product when Beta testing is not fully finished?
I'm having trouble finishing the Beta testing period of my software product.
In particular it hangs/crashes in some laptops with low to moderate memory and speed capabilities.
This problem is hard to ...
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Getting beta testers [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Advice on getting early Beta testers
Get beta testers
I'm developing a multi platform desktop app and now I need some beta testers to try it out. Are there more sites ...
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Beta testing free of charge? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Advice on getting early Beta testers
I am a representative for Movieggs, a Swedish IT start-up, looking for beta testers. As we are self-funded we do not have the ...
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How do I gather people to beta test my productivity tool? [duplicate]
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Beta Testers: What is the best way to find good beta testers?
I'm designing and developing a little project overview application. I'd like some people to test it, but so ...
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Launching as free beta, then eventually making some features premium-only
For the launch, we're thinking of including all the eventual premium features at no cost, referring to the launch as a public beta. Eventually, once traffic picks up, we would put up a notice saying ...
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Promoting landing page to get signups
OK, now I have my landing page with a signup form ready. Now how do I promote it to get early adopters? Should I:
Pay a content farm to put backlinks to the page
Pay adwords to get traffic
Find a ...
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Involving Beta Testers / Clients - When?
Working with a business guy to develop an application. I'm looking to have it complete say March-April, 2012. At what point do you involve beta testers -- a day before the expected launch? How does ...
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Transition of a mobile app from free to freemium
I'm about to release a mobile app I wrote. Since the first version is somewhat bare-bones (aka a MVP), I'm making it free. However, in the future I want to use the freemium model. Do you think it's OK ...
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Startup “Press Release” months before alpha/beta product available
So I am currently developing a web project with is SaaS, I'm committed to the project, but in order to judge the market while I work on it I was considering doing a some blogs post about the project ...
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Using mock data until real users show up
I just beta launched my website and right now there is only one user signed up for my service (it's only been a day and I'm not marketing it yet). It is highly data driven so without much context, ...
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Freemium business model in beta (would this work?)
I am starting an online b2b networking portal. It is somewhat comparable to linkedin in a sense that most of the content is user generated, meaning more users it has more attractive service becomes. ...
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Should we tag our new website as 'beta'?
What does tagging your new website as 'beta' say to your potential customers. We intend a 'soft' launch to our website and are not planning any significant marketing at this period. We intend to use ...
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Is there any websites/community of software early adopters to publish betas?
I'm wondering if there exist any community driven site, to join two kind of people...
Developers creating new software products (web, desktop, mobile) to be reviewed, but not as a paid tesing ...
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What is the best strategy/events to launch a startup?
We are having a startup in social and location based networking space.
We are currently in private beta.
What will be the best strategy or events to launch the product?
Thanks!
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What to use to collect emails on a startup launch page?
I couple months ago I created a launch page for my SAAS product using an Aweber form to collect emails during beta testing because I like their features. This worked fine before my application was ...
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Switch straight to paid saas?
I have a successful tool that has received lots of buzz for the past week or two. The tool is currently free and I hope to adopt a freemium model. I have the following options and I can't decide ...
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I launched a DIY website software company. How/where would you market it?
Currently the software is in alpha and we're looking for some more users and are not sure where the best place is to drop an invite code or whatever other strategy will help us gather up some business ...
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Beta testing considerations
In terms of beta testing a restaurant review site;
a) where would be the best place to find beta testers,
b) generally how many beta testers would be sufficient,
c) what are important aspects to ...
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Best Practices For Releasing Features?
My question is two-fold:
1) If this is the age of iterative, and small releases, how do people pull off big releases? Are they in essence waiting too long to release the many small parts that make ...
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Is there really a distinction between an Alpha and Beta releases?
I guess when there is an alpha, there is a beta :) but in the start-up maturity cycle, should there be a differentiation between an alpha and beta release? If so, what are some concrete differences?
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Good idea to publicize a free beta version of software before launching paid version?
Bad idea to get a lot of publicity for a free beta version though when I'm planning to start charging for it eventually? [EDITED TO ADD: Will it hurt future paid sales?]
I have a software program ...
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Good idea to use friends as beta testers?
I have developed a software product that I plan to sell, and I'm having a hard time finding beta testers (perhaps because the product is for use by members of one profession that is not IT-related). ...
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How do you get feedback from your beta users ? Sample of questionnaires?
I am seeking for information in order to build a beta program feedback questionnaire.
What do you recommend ? Which question are the most important ones ?
Do you have some questionnaire samples ?
I ...
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Good idea to send beta version of software to bloggers?
I have a software program that I'd like to sell after it's perfected, but I'm in a catch-22 situation; I'm trying to get publicity for the program (in part to attract more free beta users, who I'd ...
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How to offer BETA Codes?
I have launched a web app a couple of days ago in closed BETA and I have been trying quite hard to contact relevant bloggers (about 12 of them now) to post/tweet about my startup and to offer BETA ...
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Buying Expensive Commercial Licenses for Startup?
This is regarding a SAAS based software product I am about to launch. One of the key innovation of this product is automation of a human process, this automation is built on top of an expensive ...
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Pre BETA inputs for SAAS product
We are building a SAAS based application for temp staffing firms and we are done with 70% of the application. We are looking for some early feedback and then go on to build the 30% of the ...
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How to find Subject Matter Experts
Short question: How can find Subject Matter Experts to validate a software product?
Details:
I am almost finishing my software product for a specific market segment and planning on my private BETA ...
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Get beta testers [closed]
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 ...
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How do you get initial exposure for a community-based crowd sourcing website?
For the past year I've been working on a recipe-sharing startup called Fridge to Food based on the idea of crowd sourcing recipes. We went to public beta a few months ago and I've been doing rounds ...
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Screen recorder for beta testers
We use usertesting.com and love it. But we also have some beta testers we have relationships with who will be testing our product.
The question - usertesting.com uses this screen capture program to ...
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Advice on getting early Beta testers
My site just went into Beta release last week. I am at the point where I would like to get a certain number of Beta users on the site so that I can get more feedback. Right now I have people using ...
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How can you (best) monetize a beta?
Suppose that your product is going into beta, with potential for 1,000s of beta testers.
But being a small company, you would like to try to get a little money now to ease development costs for the ...
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Want to test the market/idea before launch, but how?
We are working on web app for restaurant/cafe/bars and want to test the market.
What we want to achieve?
As our product is still in development stage and take at least 30 days to come in beta stage, ...
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Taking care of beta testers
In the development of our application, we've relied heavily on a handful of beta testers. Their input has been very, very valuable and has no doubt made our application much, much better than it would ...
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When should we start on a new base?
we have recently launched a Beta version of our site. This version is currently online in public Beta, but the concept has evolved and change and our developer are about to implement those changes. ...
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Crossing the chasm - your advices for single guy moving a product from free alpha to paid beta stage
I'm a developer and I work in my spare time on a small mac app: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com
Current stats:
15K users (who are updating the app with every new release)
the web
~500 daily ...
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Best way to conduct a private beta of an application?
I have an app which I'm looking to start in private beta testing soon, but I'm needing an application/cms to allow me to manage it (i.e. hand out codes, provide tickets, help centre). Any ideas? ...
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Benefits of private vs public beta?
Here's the scenario:
There is a product with a high learning curve while it's still in beta, but this will be alleviated in the release version.
The product is at a point where it is no longer ...
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What exactly is a prototype , mockup and paper prototype
I have my idea ready and want to build it immediately and pitch to investors but people have been asking me to build a prototype, some ask me to build a mockup or deck or working model or some ask for ...
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How long of a closed-beta is enough?
We have developed a product offered as SaaS, that helps businesses to manage their entire business online (details at www.trakeze.com). We have been running a nice long (more than 6 months) ...
