$100 for your next 100 users
Pay $1 for a user to sign up, try your product and then provide feedback on how it compares to the way they did things before trying it.
What questions would you have for a service like this?
Pay $1 for a user to sign up, try your product and then provide feedback on how it compares to the way they did things before trying it.
What questions would you have for a service like this?
I've had a similar idea, the problem I always bumped into is that long-term there will be a lot of users (screened) that will try to maximize their earnings by leaving generic, good feedback. That's dangerous to startups imo.
Some kind of gamification mechanism might work better than $1 on the user side.
You want users that are interested in your product, not users who are there because they earn $1. This is my ¢2.
Yea this is a very great point. We’d need to make a system that rewards honest interest and trial. Feedback from users who are not your target can be misleading and dangerous to your point.
We won’t pay users directly for each trial. It would be a token/point based system. And yea it would need right mechanics that results in as much authentic value to the startups. An example could be to provide bigger rewards/discounts for ongoing use of a product that someone really finds valuable.
Here's my twist - make it into a fun gamified Product-Hunt-like experience.
You make it into a raffle - the founder pays $100, which becomes a prize fund.
Users have a week to use the product and offer feedback. At the end of the week, they can win $100.
The catch - the founder has to mark your feedback as useful for you to qualify for the prize. That incentivizes you to offer good feedback.
This is what I wanted to build.
I've started making a prototype. Maybe I'll code it at some point, but want to get more... feedback first. 😂
If you're down to exchange a few ideas we can have a quick chat.
I'm stelofo#5044 on Discord if interested.
This is actually a great idea! Yea let's connect. Will msg you on Discord (jnetic is my username)
If I were paying a small amount per user, I wouldn't have a lot of faith in that service to provide users with the right psychographics and market segment. If I was paying a lot for the right users, I would want to see in-depth how they validated these potential users for my trial.
I guess it depends whether your customer wants "some users" or "the right users".
Great points. We'd let you create a screener survey based on a template to filter from the community of users. The 'right users' may or may not be expensive to acquire depending on who they are. More niche and outside of general consumer likely harder (ie 30's US consumers who watch Netflix vs. Jira users who code web3).
For companies that know and have a crystal clear and narrowly defined user target, they probably know how to acquire their users quite effectively no? We were thinking it's more for earlier/pre-pmf stage startups where 'some users' will help them learn/iterate to define/find the 'right users' that retain and become paying customers
why don't I (as a founder) just call 100 potential clients and say...
"try my new service for free for 2 weeks on the basis I can get some feedback"
I guess depends on the service. If is B2C or B2B freemium that would be a harder sell. Cold outreach, sales, seo/sem are all great, but take time to work and not guaranteed. Which is why imo user acquisition is not easy and we're trying to see if a service like this can help :)
How would you be able to much so much cheaper than userlytics? Doesn't seem scalable
Price would vary based on target (ie consumers who use TikTok in Asia vs. employees who use Salesforce in the US). And focus is more on users trying your product because it might be relevant to them with the added bonus of getting a reward (vs paying users just to test your product for usability issues). More like product hunt like early adopter community that gets rewards
So if pricing per user varies by demographics/narrowness of target, we are no longer talking about 1$ per user, right?
Anyway, I think it would make more sense to pay more for better qualified leads that just paying 1$ per user in hope they like the product enough to purchase.
If you want to be sustainable, you've got to make money somehow. You users need to be incentized to use/try the product enough to produce valuable feedback.
I'm not saying that what you're trying to achieve is impossible, but you probably want to evaluate your business model before going too far down that road.
Your problem is 3-fold. You need to find users. You need to find founders that are interested. You also need to somehow make money from that.
to flip the question..if you got a curated list of SaaS products that are personalized to you somehow based on your interests..would you try a few with no reward? If not, how much reward would put you over in your decision to try something and provide feedback (5min max to try and type in 200 char min feedback)? $2? $5?
If you have a list of saas that are a good fit, I might be willing to try them and give feedback.
Here's another thought:
If you can get the founders to create an offer, like: You can try it/use it as much as you want for one month. You give feedback after one month.
This could work if you manage to have a good list of leads that is well segmented by saas types they might be interested in.
You could get paid by founders for the feedback/qualified leads you send them.
You could also negociate/contract bonuses if qualified leads sign up.
I don't think offering monetary incentives is the way to go about this as you'll have people who have no real interest in the products and it will dilute the quality of feedback.
Yea the thing to test is how much users are willing to try a product b/c it might be useful for them and they like trying new products (ie Producthunt) vs. how much users are only incentivized by the monetary reward (ie mturk).
The reward could be seen as icing on the cake vs. the only primary driver. This is what we'd need to figure out
Seems like a challenge to implementing something like this. Since the payout is so low I suspect that you won't get quality feedback. You'd have to some how rate limit the number of reviews you can get per day.
I don't think I want anyone that is interested in earning a dollar.
Yes agreed. No one wants users that only try your product because they wanted to earn that dollar. On the flip side, if you pay users much more to try your product, that also does not mean you will get quality feedback. Reward is ideally a nudge for people who are in the middle about your product---that pushes people over the edge to try and provide honest feedback
I had same idea but things can get shady very quick. Remind me of people buying twitter followers on ebay few years ago