Get beta testers


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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.

Website Testing Beta

asked Jan 5 '11 at 05:21
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Kirk Strobeck
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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.

answered Jan 5 '11 at 05:52
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Jeff Epstein
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  • +1 for betalist, w00t! – Kirk Strobeck 14 years ago
  • +1 for hacker news (http://news.ycombinator.com/) – Ricardo 14 years ago
  • +1 for betalist, although I might be a bit biased because I am the founder of it ;) –– You can submit your startup here: http://betali.st/submitMarckohlbrugge 14 years ago
  • @marckohlbrugge Ha, nice :P – Kirk Strobeck 14 years ago
  • Betalist looks fine, but anyone knows something similar for desktop apps? – Jitbit 14 years ago

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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
answered Jan 5 '11 at 10:45
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Rahul
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  • +1 for Prefinery - makes the managing of beta testers a lot easier. – Ricardo 14 years ago

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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.

answered Jan 5 '11 at 14:59
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Ricardo
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