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I'm looking for people to test an app for community coordination. Where should I start? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Danterious@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I have been working on an app that is supposed to help groups of people coordinate their actions towards a shared goal. I'm done with the basic features (I'm talking barebones here) and I am trying to find a community or two that would be willing to work with me to test and improve it. The reason I'm asking here is two-fold:

A) When I looked up ways to find beta testers most are based on finding individuals to test the app which doesn't really work for this because it is based on helping a pre-established community. So I am stuck on how I would find communities without already being an established app.

B) Lemmy seems like a very passionate/driven community so I thought there would be people here that are working on stuff or at least know places I could ask for help on this.

So what would be the best thing for me to do?

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[–] HelixNebula@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here are three options that come to mind:

If you don't want to sell your app:

Open-source your project. This will also allow people to review the code, add suggestions and help with programming. (IMO this is the most realistic option)

If you do want to sell your app:

Ask your family and / or friends to test your app. Assuming they have no experience in programming, this will only test the graphical interface, user experience and find surface level bugs.
Give beta testers incentive to test your app. Either by giving them a small cut of the revenue your app makes or just pay them a fixed amount.