EarlyCrew

With AI, you can build an MVP in a weekend.

But answering these questions is still hard:

• Will anyone actually use it?

• Am I solving a real problem?

• Where do I find people who'll give honest feedback instead of "Looks great!"?

That's the problem I've been thinking about lately.

I'm building EarlyCrew around one idea: make it easier for founders to connect with people who genuinely enjoy testing new products and sharing useful feedback.

Not another launch platform.

Not another directory.

A place focused on early validation before you spend weeks polishing something nobody wants.

I'm still figuring out what works, so I'd love to hear from other founders.

• How do you currently recruit beta users?

• What's the hardest part of getting quality feedback?

• Have you found anything that consistently works?

Looking forward to learning from everyone's experience.

Every time I launched a product, I hit the same wall.

Building was the easy part.

Finding people who would actually try it and give honest feedback was much harder.

I found myself jumping between X, Reddit, Discord, and Slack communities, hoping someone would test my product. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time it didn't.

So I started building EarlyCrew.

The idea is simple:

• Founders can showcase their products.

• Early adopters can discover and test new startups.

• Founders receive honest, actionable feedback before launch.

I'm still in the early stages, and there's a lot to improve.

I'd love feedback from the Indie Hackers community:

• Would you use something like this?

• What's your biggest challenge when looking for beta users?

• What's one feature that would make this genuinely useful?

I'd appreciate any honest feedback—positive or critical.