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BetaTesta

Pairing makers with testers

Side project · Sep 2017 · betatesta.xyz

Product Hunt
430+
upvotes
Testers
700
registered
Makers
400
looking for testers
Countries
35
with testers
First build
1 day
on a Weebly template
Rebrand
2018
with ucreate

Preview

The redesigned BetaTesta landing page on a laptop
The palette
#F88379

Coral, borrowed from Monzo’s card.

BetaTesta screens on phones

About

While building various online businesses I always struggled to get early feedback on new websites, features or prototypes. I didn’t have a large network, and the user testing platforms were expensive and built for large teams.

Surely there were others like me: bootstrapped solo founders and makers who needed to test early versions of their apps, websites or wireframes. A few weeks later I built and launched an MVP called BetaTesta, aiming simply to pair makers with testers.

It launched on Product Hunt in September 2017 and kept gaining traction. After months of feedback and validation I took the platform down to focus on the next phase, and together with ucreate designed a new brand and launched a new landing page in September 2018.

Version history

  1. New brand and landing pageSep 2018

    Designed with ucreate, who took BetaTesta on to rebuild it from scratch.

  2. Launched on Product HuntSep 2017

    A weekend MVP pairing makers with testers.

Notes from the maker

3 notes
Built in a daySam, maker

For the MVP I took a Weebly template and knocked together every page in a day, with icons from illustrio and a logo from ucraft’s free logo maker.

Borrowed from MonzoSam, maker

The coral colour scheme (#f88379) came straight from Monzo’s card.

A T hidden in the BSam, maker

My favourite part of the redesign: the logo is a B, with a subtle T inside it. Most people miss it. I love it.

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