Spent the last few weeks beta testing around 20 products built by other founders.
What surprised me is that the biggest problems were rarely the product itself. One app wasn't available in my region because the developer had accidentally limited App Store availability. Another collected health data but both the Privacy Policy and Terms links were broken.
One claimed "no account required", but you couldn't actually use anything without signing in. Another had a demo where you could switch between the parent and child view, and both showed exactly the same screen. The whole product is built around parents approving what their kids do. And one failed to upload a completely normal iPhone photo with nothing more than "Failed to upload file", while other images worked fine.
None of that was a coding mistake. A region setting, a placeholder link, a sentence in a launch post, a demo nobody had updated, an error message that swallowed its own reason. The products were fine. The things around the products were not, and that is what people hit first.
Worth an hour of your week: open your own product the way a stranger would, from the link you posted on a device that has never seen it.
I'm building Chromoly, a new type of AI builder. We're still a long way from beta, but am looking for early users to help shape the product. No pressure to try but I'm happy to try yours either way.