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We built a messenger we're proud of, now we need to test it (rewards program inside)

We built a messenger for small teams and now we're at the point where we need real people using it, not just us.

So we set up a rewards program: test Protocall, report bugs, throw us ideas, get rewarded for it. Pretty straightforward.

Here's the honest part: we have single digits of followers anywhere we've posted about this so far. So this is either the start of something or a genuinely funny case study in "we built the thing, now nobody knows it exists."

How submitting actually works, in case anyone's curious about the mechanics rather than just the pitch:

  1. Click New Topic

  2. Select Contributors Space → Bug Bounty Program

  3. Add a clear topic title

  4. Fill in the bug report form (what happened, how to reproduce it, your device/platform, screenshot or recording if you've got one)

  5. Submit, and the team reviews it

The clearer the report, the faster we can actually reproduce and fix it, so a rambly "it's broken" helps nobody, us included.

If you want to be one of the first people poking at this: community.protocall.ch

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    Are you seeing testers actually use Protocall beyond finding bugs, or mostly treating it as a bounty program?
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      some are just there for the bugs. but we've had a few testers organically start using it for actual work conversations, which honestly means more to us than any bug report
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        That makes the distinction more important then. Since the bug-finding itself is incentivized, I’d be most curious whether the people who started testing for the bounty keep using Protocall for actual conversations once there’s no reward involved.