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How to beta test your mobile apps

25 points by ashok_varma 14y ago

DenisM 14y ago
The article is devoid of content, entire text can be summarized as "strategize your strategy", "do the right thing at the right time", and other such gibberish. The point of the article is to plug something called "appstark", which as best I can tell is a library + service combo to collect and aggregate user feedback from inside iOS apps. Their web site a train-wreck of an attempt to explain what the service does, papered with "free trial start now!!!" buttons. Frankly, a short and to the point explanation of what the service does would be more welcome here than this spam.
- luckymurari 14y ago
  Feedback is awesome. But, I guess you could've reduced a bit of causticness in it. This is the video, I want everyone on internet to watch - "A real person, a lot like you" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwwHa-7Ux8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwwHa-7Ux8 PS/Disclaimer: Not directly affiliated to them. Founders are my friends!
  - DenisM 14y ago
    You're probably right, I was (still am) irked by the amount of nonsense I had to wade through before I got something tangible out of my time investment. In my defense I provided something useful to go with the my "causticism", so I can claim my heart was in the right place all along. :)
- ashok_varma 14y ago
  Thanks for the feedback Denis. We will improve and try to do better next time.
iNate2000 14y ago
I don't know what I was expecting. The title was, after all, "How to beta test your mobile apps".
mmackh 14y ago
The one thing that I find most difficult is how to actually recruit new, quality beta testers, which the article doesn't really touch upon. I've had some success from sending out personal tweets, giving sneak peeks of upcoming projects on dribbble and emailing bloggers to give me a shout out. Never the less, the signal to noise ratio has always been very high.
- ashok_varma 14y ago
  Prior to Appstark, we were building games and we had to recruit beta testers. We recruited around 800 beta testers for our game on Android, all without a single blog covering us. I will do follow up post about it.

25 points by ashok_varma 14y ago

The article is devoid of content, entire text can be summarized as "strategize your strategy", "do the right thing at the right time", and other such gibberish. The point of the article is to plug something called "appstark", which as best I can tell is a library + service combo to collect and aggregate user feedback from inside iOS apps. Their web site a train-wreck of an attempt to explain what the service does, papered with "free trial start now!!!" buttons. Frankly, a short and to the point explanation of what the service does would be more welcome here than this spam.

luckymurari 14y ago
Feedback is awesome. But, I guess you could've reduced a bit of causticness in it. This is the video, I want everyone on internet to watch - "A real person, a lot like you" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwwHa-7Ux8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwwHa-7Ux8 PS/Disclaimer: Not directly affiliated to them. Founders are my friends!
- DenisM 14y ago
  You're probably right, I was (still am) irked by the amount of nonsense I had to wade through before I got something tangible out of my time investment. In my defense I provided something useful to go with the my "causticism", so I can claim my heart was in the right place all along. :)
ashok_varma 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback Denis. We will improve and try to do better next time.

iNate2000 14y ago

I don't know what I was expecting. The title was, after all, "How to beta test your mobile apps".

mmackh 14y ago

The one thing that I find most difficult is how to actually recruit new, quality beta testers, which the article doesn't really touch upon. I've had some success from sending out personal tweets, giving sneak peeks of upcoming projects on dribbble and emailing bloggers to give me a shout out. Never the less, the signal to noise ratio has always been very high.

ashok_varma 14y ago
Prior to Appstark, we were building games and we had to recruit beta testers. We recruited around 800 beta testers for our game on Android, all without a single blog covering us. I will do follow up post about it.