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piemadd
By piemadd
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Note: Wasn't sure if this should go into the software topic, please move there if it should.

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I recently finished an Amtrak Train Tracking app just a few weeks ago. One of the major issues I've faces is trying to get beta testers and people to give feedback on the app. Does anyone here have experience with recruiting these people and how you do it?
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Thanks!

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Are you talking about a full time paid position in a company, or a one off test for a personal project? Are you talking about paid software, free software or maybe even open source?

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9 minutes ago, James Evens said:

In detail what?

Beta tester to find bugs or feedback if general decisions are good?

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For the first find somebody who is extremely structured, intelligent and works daily with that software.聽The second is the challenging one as you can't talk to everybody and have to differentiate between personal preference and common sense.

More feedback in general decisions. I'm pretty good at finding bugs, though a few pop up every once in a while.

7 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Are you talking about a full time paid position in a company, or a one off test for a personal project? Are you talking about paid software, free software or maybe even open source?

One off for an open source and free personal project. I'm a big believer in OSS, so many of my projects are open and free.

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If there's any trainspotting communities/forums you're a member of, you might be able to find people willing to try the app there.

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If you want to find bugs on the backend, then probably write tests, For feedback, you can put it on github and I am pretty sure someone will come complaining to you 馃檪

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On 10/29/2021 at 11:47 PM, WolframaticAlpha said:

If you want to find bugs on the backend, then probably write tests, For feedback, you can put it on github and I am pretty sure someone will come complaining to you 馃檪

I guess a good sign is that I've only gotten requested features, but no bug reports!

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