Show HN: How to get users for your website/app

2 points by pghimire 14y ago ↗ HN

Hello HN!

I created BetaUsersNow.com with the goal of allowing startups get immediate access to a pool of Targeted users and immediate feedback during their beta phase. The goal is to come in handy especially for recently launched startup or app, which do not have a siginificant user-base yet but would like to have users from their target demographics interact with their site/app and give feedback. During our beta phase, we have been signing up users from all walks of life and have collected their detailed demographic information - including city, state, country, Gender,Birth Year, Yearly Household Income, marital Status, Web/Computer Expertise, Web Usage on a Typical Day, Areas of Interest and device ownership (iPhone, iPad) etc. This will allow a recently launched startup to directly go to a pool of its target demographics and test products out. In a nutshell, the site will provide you a pool of targeted users, that fall within your target demographics, who will signnup at your website, follow your instructions to use your website, app and give you actionable feedback.

I would like to invite founders and developers to try out the service and give me any feedback that would help it improve. Thanks!

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pghimire 14y ago ↗

I am basically trying to find out if there is an actual need for a service like this. Thanks for your input.

imcqueen 14y ago ↗

I think I would use this, depending on the quality of the tester. $9 per user is a little expensive. There are a lot of traditional marketing techniques that could get you users for less than a $9 CPA - especially since it's $9 + you're giving away the product for free.

Do you have any suggestions? Currently the business model works like this:

1)A user from your target demographics signs up at your website (or install your app on her device) 2)Responds to a series of questions asked by you - and provides some actionable feedback 3)Gets paid $5/website or $10/app (we are charging $9 or $15 respectively).

If there is a way to create a better model, I would be happy to consider it. My goal is to cater to new startups and give them a number of users from their target audience so that they can get their initial testing done and get soem feedback at a comparatively lower cost.