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My experience with BetaList

As requested in response to my post about being featured on BetaList, I will share my experience and some numbers. If you don't care about the background story and want to see the numbers, just skip to the next section.

Rejection, Resubmission and Lessons Learned

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    This is great, Lukas! Thanks for sharing. I'm considering submitting my new platform to BetaList and will be referring back to this :)

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      Sounds great! Make sure you read https://betalist.com/criteria and spend a couple of minutes thinking about whether your platform satisfies each of the criteria and whether somebody who visits it for the first time will get the impression that it does! Most of these things are not only important for acceptance but also essential if you want to get good feedback!

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    Thanks for sharing your experience.
    I found betalist very confusing. I submitted several projects, ALL of them rejected. I still don't know, why - I checked all criteria and didn't find any failures.
    What is more confusing is the verdict: "Your startup was not selected to be featured"
    Is it the same as just to be listed? I didn't ask to be featured so I'm puzzled.

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      Yeah, I think that "featured" is equivalent to "listed" on BetaList. Did you ever try to make small adjustments and resubmit any of your projects?

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        No, I didn't try because I didn't know what to change. Everything met their requirements.

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    Bounce rates were 22% on the first day, 33% on the second day, and 37% on the third day.

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    Thanks for sharing

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