What is the best way to find beta testers for my application without spending money?
Hey Guys, I am working on a mobile app, its called Sterio and its up on the AppStore and the PlayStore will leave links under the post. The App allows users to link their Apple Music or Spotify accounts and create groups with their friends. They can then go on to share music directly from their stream from said group. Current I am struggling with finding issues with the experience and the code for the application, we were testing the application initially with around 20 people just from my friend circle but now i feel like i need a lot more people to be testing and sharing valuable insights about the experience of the app. I have been posting on Reddit to find testers but it seems that people join and stop using the app after some time.
What are some methods you would suggest to solve this issue and find some quality testers
Create a profile for your target user, find out where your target user is hanging out, approach on groups and communities, but also try to message directly (DM on Twitter for example). There's no silver bullet for this really, you just have to grind a bit and see what works for your app.
App-wise, make sure that there is an easy way for users to provide feedback and maybe even ask for that after they complete something within the app.
@razvanilin This is the best advice, and exactly the same advice I was going to give.
Go to where your target user is: get feedback, don't be spammy, and share your product.
I'm doing very less of messaging directly and asking for feedback, going to give it a try for sure. Thanks !
For iOS you want to add your app to airport.community/. Try to manually reach out to those on Reddit, if you have their username and ask why they stopped using the app. The screenshots look very nice!
My feedback:
- Direct push notification prompt before anything is annoying
- Can't try app experience before creating an account (friction, unless this is a major pain point I'm out here)
- Even have to verify email for a simple thing like sharing music. How's that simpler compared to sharing from within the apps directly?
- Now I have to enter a name. I want to share music not a long onboarding. By now I could've also copied and send a YouTube link.
- I use the music app without Apple Music. With my free Spotify account I got stuck on the permissions page after successfully logging in. Pressing cancel results in a white web view with "access_denied".
- After force quitting the app I was logged in via Spotify.
- Now I still can't try the sharing experience. I can't search music. I have to join or create a group. I know inviting friends to new apps and creating groups is very hard. So I don't bother doing it. I don't even know, if I'm inviting friends to something that works as I couldn't try it.
Advanced users might do these things or not. But most people evaluate apps quickly and want to solve a problem fast. So I'd prefer to quickly find a song and share it as link via a message in other apps. The link then resolves to Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube etc.
You want to maximize x where x = (desire or pain) - friction
We can definitely make signup faster but its going to be difficult to do it in one step and we definitely need to signup using the stream. Spotify will give us user info but Apple is not. One of the next few things im going to be working on is making it as painless as possible
Going to be adding a feature which will let you try out the app first before you invite your friends to it.
I understand your point about maximizing x, this was very insightful. Thanks a lot for your feedback man
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