Closed beta starts Monday and I’m realizing “not ready yet” never really ends
We’re launching a closed beta on Monday.
It’s a lifestyle mobile app, still very early, and I keep having the classic panic: there are still things to fix, polish, rewrite, simplify, test, explain better.
But I’m also starting to think this is probably the trap. There will always be something else to improve before real users see it.
Right now we have around 20 beta contacts, but I’m assuming only half of them will actually show up, install it, and give feedback.
So I have two questions for people who have been through this:
How “ready” was your product when you first let beta users in?
And what actually worked for finding the first real testers, not just people who say “sounds cool” and disappear?