Ask HN: Free beta or no free beta? MVP or wait for full release?

Re:Ask HN: Free beta or no free beta? MVP or wait for full r... by mcrittenden on Thursday October 28, 2010 @03:00PM (#1844378)

Yeah, I built it because no others worked the way I wanted them to. With that in mind, I wouldn't mind if nobody ever signed up for it, but I'd like to give it a good shot and see if there's interest.

As for finding other like-me users, I'm not sure...it's specifically built for single-person devs and at this point doesn't allow multiple users per account, so I suppose any number of freelance forums or communities would be good places to start (freelanceswitch.com comes to mind).

To answer your last question, I'm more looking for strategic feedback - I'd love to get a few testers to tell me if they would use it and if not, why not. And I'm sure that a couple bugs will be exposed in the process.

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Re:Ask HN: Free beta or no free beta? MVP or wait for full r... by usiegj00 on Thursday October 28, 2010 @03:09PM (#1844433)

I would suggest limiting the number of users and calling it beta. That way you can be in close contact with these users and actually pull out their feedback. I would release a simple MVP--one that is useful to you. Not much more. Beware that users make great editors but poor creators.

Get to charging quickly. Once you charge $1, you will treat the project as a commercial endeavor--it will fight for your attention over other work and it is incredibly rewarding.

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