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Pre launching MVP - gathering feedback

So yesterday I finished the MVP, and today i'm going to start gathering feedback from beta users.

Also, i'm trying to find those beta users :)

it seems harder than i thought, but i collected multiple lists where to find beta users so i'm about to give those a shot.

Wish me luck!

https://widget-board.com

, Founder of Icon for Widget-Board
Widget-Board
on December 1, 2020
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    Nice product Tom. What did you use to create this?

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      Thanks 🥰

      I used Ionic which is an Angular framework, and Firebase for DB (NoSQL) and endpoints (NodeJS).

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    Hey Tom, nice product. One suggestion would be to allow logged out users to be able to play with some of you sample widget boards. It would give you a higher conversion.
    Best of Luck!

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      just added the ability to load the sample boards into the playground

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      Thanks for the feedback Pranay!

      following your comment, i added a "playground" so guests can play around with a real live board and widgets, and even save it to their account if they choose to create one.
      on the next few days i'll add an option to load each sample use case into the playground - that was a great idea, so thanks!

      you can check the playground here:
      https://widget-board.com/playground

      don't forget to tell me how it was! :)

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    Hey! Love the product. Where did you end up finding beta users?

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      If we put the PH launch a side, the only place I found beta users was here on IH, but it was only 2-5 and they only tested the landing page, not the app itself.

      So I decided that the traffic from PH is going to be my beta users.
      I thought that it's just an MVP, and it's just PH, not the super bowl, and if I want users to try the app I need traffic.

      Now I have 73 users and 5 of them are on a paid plan :)

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        Very nice! Yeah I just launched my app and have about 3-5 beta users testing currently.

        https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stoiclyy/id1532990489

        After incorporating some the feedback they gave, I’m wondering if I should just go ahead and launch the product on PH and post it here as well.

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          Just launch it.

          If you have tested it yourself on multiple devices, and let some friends and beta users to play with it and it works as expected, gather their feedback and tweak it accordingly, then test again and launch.

          It will get you enough traffic so you can go through the Validation phase, to understand if there is a real need for your product. Even a minor need is a good start.

          Then, again, gather feedback and tweak product.

          Good luck!