How do you get beta testers?

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I believe you can find some stories from other indie hackers on this topic. Cheers!

Check out GummySearch and EavesDrop.

These are social listening tools that allow you to identify pain points and solution requests related to your product category on Reddit and Twitter respectively.

You can then reply to their post / comment publicly or reach out to them privately.

For us it's just hammering niche facebook and sub Reddits.

We do a bunch of daily and weekly social posts but they don't seem to drive the same amount of traction that our 1-1 convos in FB and Reddit goes.

not scalable but super effective.

We are currently collecting beta signups now! www.adventureplane.com

I've launched a couple of digital products in the last few days. This is how I get beta testers and customers for products :

• Niche FB Groups
• Niche Subreddits
• Discord Communities
• LinkedIn Connections
• Product Hunt
• Twitter Threads

Hope these help 🙌🏻

Reddit

For era.sh (a markdown note-taking tool for developers) we had the same question.
We started on reaching out to people on LinkedIn and Twitter, asked if they want to try our tool, and gave them access to our closed beta. For the open beta, we had around 100 beta testers, which we gained mostly through activity on Twitter. We just stayed active on a daily base.

First you should build trust in your domain, write blog posts & contribute to relevant subreddits, etc. Time box this, if you're not getting traction you may have to refine your idea. Look for people already interested in your product first before trying to "convert" others who may eventually be interested. If there's a market, a few social media posts around your idea should give you plenty of starting traction.

Few ways... there are def websites you can post your project to, but the organic (not-so-sexy) way is to just roll up your sleeves and start some bootstrap marketing. Obviously, you have some kind of sign-up form on your website and all your CTAs should go to this form. This is the form you use to get interested people to sign-up to beta test.

By way of example, here is the sign-up form on GapScout. It works well because it's simple and clear. Folks sign-up every day. Some days more than others, but it's been fairly steady.

1. Creating blog content
   I am doing this on the GapScout blog: sharing useful content. Find out what your audience wants to hear with some keyword research and start creating content that addresses it. It's a passive way to get people to sign-up. If they are interested in your article, chances are they are interested in your software. Share these articles on your social media, in places like IndieHackers if relevant, etc.

2. Interact on IH
   This forum is ripe for folks willing to try out new products. Just posting on here is a good way to get some interest. Simply asking for beta testers on IH is one way to do it as well.

3. Reward beta testers
   If you are still having trouble "converting" people into beta testers. Then give them incentive to do so. This is overlooked sometimes. Free plans, lifetime deals, discounted prices locked-in, etc.

We're facing the same problem right now.

Please let me know if you got any great ideas on scaling the process. Will share with you too if I've got some :)

for our new social investing platform https://www.jika.io/savemyspot
we ported plenty on Reddit

Have you already combed through your LinkedIn contacts to see if anyone works at a company what might have the problem that your solution solves?

So far I've found people for www.usecomponent.com through Reddit -- my goal has been to see if there are problems we can solve for users who are posting about them (i.e. high intent users)

You can share your experience before and after using your product, like mine here:

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-changed-my-life-by-just-writing-down-my-thoughts-cfb40825a1

It's a very natural way to convert users.

I've had success finding my first beta users on reddit. I posted about my experience here in a similar thread:

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-we-used-growth-hacking-on-reddit-and-got-4000-new-visitors-in-one-day-1d419acf2f?commentId=-N9EkoJY1FGd3B412f0G

Polywork “opportunities” tab.

Here is a link to my profile re the platform:

https://www.polywork.com/krisruby

Hire some experienced customer service/sales associates or freelancers.

For workcalmly.app (pre-launch), we have an automatic email that's sent to every new waitlist sign-up that asks them to become a closed-beta tester.

Figure out your target group, then go where that target group is and ask for beta testers.

I always seek help from community and than go for test myself.
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