Interesting idea for finding users for an MVP
https://demo.devsdecide.com
I recently launched a product to help engineers perform technical interviews. For the past month, I've tried Google Ads and Meetups to see if I can validate that this is an actual issue. However, during this time, I haven't quite found out how to ask people to try the software out tell me if it helps them solve their problem. Recently I started just joining developer slack channels and promoting it there, and I finally have one user.
If you'd like to try it out as well and let me know what you think I'd greatly appreciate it: https://demo.devsdecide.com
Why make users copy and paste credentials that are right there on the screen next to the authentication form rather than taking us straight to the demo ?
Establishing credibility is hard enough when you're an unknown quantity, and a couple of problems are very visible on first load (NaN% and unformatted timestamps).
You might want to run this through a speed test - my time to get something other than a blank white screen was around 10s.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdemo.devsdecide.com
What proportion of developers conduct technical interviews and need a tool to help them ?
Good luck, Solomon !
Finished fixing the timestamp and NaN% issue you mentioned. Thank you again for the feedback. Optimizing it for mobile is going to be a bit hard since I'm not really a frontend developer and I'm still parsing through understanding what's wrong. If you saw anything else, please let me know.
Thanks Neil! I had no clue it was taking that long to startup. I think it's the image I'm using I need to use a smaller one.
As for the NaN% I completely agree. I'm working on my demo script to complete a percentage of the interviews.
The timestamp issue I just haven't really gotten around to it since I didn't see it as important, I guess I was wrong.
As for what portion of developers conduct technical interviews and need a tool to help them. I can't give you an exact percentage but all developers and managers I talk to don't keep track of what they are asking over time. At best they have an applicant tracking system which lets them setup interviews, keep their comments, and candidate resumes.
The devil's in the details ! Keep at it.