Can beta-testing help me to set target and price?
Hello. I want to do beta testing for my new product. It is a SaaS called UserCustomDomain which manages customer domains.
If you make something and want to implement a custom domain feature, try using UserCustomDomain.
Actually, I wanted to build something like a blog platform. But when I implemented a custom domain feature, I thought that this feature could be productized alone. Because it took so much time and effort to implement more than primary features.
I implemented very minimum for proof of concept. I used the lowest server for minimizing its cost. So it might be slow on beta testing. Through this beta testing, I want to measure its traffic, the server spec, the demand, and the cost.
BTW, do you think that beta-testing can help me to set target and price of this product? Do you think it is marketable?
Thank you :)
Pricing is hard. No matter what you do, it would be hard to get it right in v1. My suggestion would be to just pick a price and try to get users. If you don't find them, iterate - reduce price? add more value? If you find too many, increase prices ;-)
On the other hand, if you can qualify people that would ultimately pay (and have the means to pay), letting them "beta test" it for free is acceptable too.
BTW, I wouldn't call it "beta". Just launch it. Find the most desperate customers who have this problem. They'll be okay with the "beta" quality if you are iterating fast enough.