What is the best place to find beta users?

Sounds interesting! Looking forward to connect!

Hey there. Acquiring your first users is always difficult - you most likely have to do it manually. Even Stripe had to sit down next to people, show them the app and practically force them to set up an account! Paul Graham from Y Combinator has a really good essay on this here: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html?viewfullsite=1

I would thoroughly recommend spending an hour every day trying to engage with your target audience as much as possible in online forums and social media. If you can, go to some meetups in your town and speak to people.

First and foremost, try to provide value. Once you have provided some value and conversations are flowing, you can ask if they'd have some time to talk over Zoom etc.

From here can discuss their needs and determine if they would be suitable for the product. If they are, then you can offer them a beta account.

Have you done any user testing / idea validation before? Let me know if you need any tips :)

Hi Ali, getting your project listed on product communities will help. Have you checkout Betalist.com and producthunt.com ? Those places are a good start and has decent traffic leading your way. Wishing the very best and have a good day! 🚀

Hey there, if you are looking to attract initial users (beta or not), here are some of my favorite case studies:

📚 Case Studies

A solo-founder attracted over 1,000 email subscribers with a lead magnet to build her business to over $4k MRR in 8 months.

Another solo-founder shared his successful strategies on Reddit in getting 1000 subscribers in less than 4 months.

This SaaS creator created a video using basic wireframes to get 400 signups and 5 initial sales of a product that is yet to exist

⭐ More Case Studies

• This founder validated his niche with just two posts and grew his newsletter to over $5k MRR.

• 0 audience, 1 product launch, over $6k in revenue. The strategies used by this founder to launch his SaaS.

• Learn the exact process of how this solo-founder did (validate, feedback, sales) to get over 50 orders before he even created his digital product.

• $4-figure MRR online community and over 5k subscribers. How this founder validated and built her business using a giveaway.

I've compiled more case studies on this topic here. Cheers!