Beta Questions

What does tagging your new website as 'beta' say to your potential customers. We intend a 'soft' launch to our website and are not planning any significant marketing at this period. We intend to...

Marketing Launch Website Beta Branding

asked Sep 24 '11 at 04:27

Dan Mac Bean
151 points

I'm wondering if there exist any community driven site, to join two kind of people... Developers creating new software products (web, desktop, mobile) to be reviewed, but not as a paid tesing...

Software Community Beta Early Adopters

asked Sep 14 '11 at 06:00

Nestor Sanchez A
690 points

I couple months ago I created a launch page for my SAAS product using an Aweber form to collect emails during beta testing because I like their features. This worked fine before my application was...

Beta

asked Jul 25 '11 at 05:45

Mr Lucky
13 points

We are having a startup in social and location based networking space. We are currently in private beta. What will be the best strategy or events to launch the product? Thanks!

Marketing Launch Location Social Network Beta

asked Aug 1 '11 at 04:47

Neology
113 points

I have a successful tool that has received lots of buzz for the past week or two. The tool is currently free and I hope to adopt a freemium model. I have the following options and I can't decide...

Launch Payments Saas Beta Freemium

asked Jul 5 '11 at 23:12

Lee
8 points

Currently the software is in alpha and we're looking for some more users and are not sure where the best place is to drop an invite code or whatever other strategy will help us gather up some...

Marketing Inbound Marketing Saas Beta

asked Jun 11 '11 at 14:33

Nfriend21
31 points

In terms of beta testing a restaurant review site; a) where would be the best place to find beta testers, b) generally how many beta testers would be sufficient, c) what are important aspects...

Testing Beta

asked Jun 3 '11 at 05:59

Sam
509 points

Bad idea to get a lot of publicity for a free beta version though when I'm planning to start charging for it eventually? [EDITED TO ADD: Will it hurt future paid sales?] I have a software program...

Software Beta

asked Apr 25 '11 at 06:34

User6492
1,747 points

I guess when there is an alpha, there is a beta :) but in the start-up maturity cycle, should there be a differentiation between an alpha and beta release? If so, what are some concrete...

Beta

asked Apr 30 '11 at 04:04

Genadinik
1,821 points

My question is two-fold: 1) If this is the age of iterative, and small releases, how do people pull off big releases? Are they in essence waiting too long to release the many small parts that make...

Beta Product Release

asked May 1 '11 at 05:36

Genadinik
1,821 points

I have developed a software product that I plan to sell, and I'm having a hard time finding beta testers (perhaps because the product is for use by members of one profession that is not...

Ab Testing Beta

asked Apr 11 '11 at 03:30

User6492
1,747 points

I have a software program that I'd like to sell after it's perfected, but I'm in a catch-22 situation; I'm trying to get publicity for the program (in part to attract more free beta users, who I'd...

Software Blog Beta

asked Apr 2 '11 at 23:20

User6492
1,747 points

I am seeking for information in order to build a beta program feedback questionnaire. What do you recommend ? Which question are the most important ones ? Do you have some questionnaire samples...

Beta

asked Apr 6 '11 at 04:23

Pillona
355 points

I have launched a web app a couple of days ago in closed BETA and I have been trying quite hard to contact relevant bloggers (about 12 of them now) to post/tweet about my startup and to offer BETA...

Launch Email Beta Product Launch

asked Feb 26 '11 at 01:31

Carl
33 points

I'm working on a website that I'll need beta tested soon. It's a startup. Where should I go to get a good pool of testers? It would also be great to have a good pool of hackers who can show...

Website Testing Beta

asked Jan 5 '11 at 05:21

Kirk Strobeck
80 points

For the past year I've been working on a recipe-sharing startup called Fridge to Food based on the idea of crowd sourcing recipes. We went to public beta a few months ago and I've been doing rounds...

Community Beta Crowdsourcing

asked Dec 22 '10 at 04:13

Daniel Bingham
148 points

We use usertesting.com and love it. But we also have some beta testers we have relationships with who will be testing our product. The question - usertesting.com uses this screen capture program...

Development Testing Beta

asked Dec 15 '10 at 03:44

Chris
4,214 points

My site just went into Beta release last week. I am at the point where I would like to get a certain number of Beta users on the site so that I can get more feedback. Right now I have people using...

Beta Users

asked Dec 1 '10 at 18:22

John
161 points

Suppose that your product is going into beta, with potential for 1,000s of beta testers. But being a small company, you would like to try to get a little money now to ease development costs for...

Monetization Beta Product Launch

asked Sep 16 '10 at 06:31

Nbeecroft
515 points

In the development of our application, we've relied heavily on a handful of beta testers. Their input has been very, very valuable and has no doubt made our application much, much better than it...

Beta Compensation

asked May 26 '10 at 05:44

Ryan
71 points