Do you love beta testing new web apps?
By Noah (resources)
If so, you’ll probably be interested in a website that has just launched called BetaJunkie.com. The basic premise of the site is to connect startup web companies who need people to beta test new web apps with people who enjoy being “early adopters” and beta testing.
The site is still new and building up a list of interested beta testers. After signing up and logging in, you are asked to complete a very short profile page that gives some basic demographic information. That information will be used to help companies better target potential beta testers of their products. The privacy policy for BetaJunkie.com specifies that the info collected is not used to personally identify anyone, but only used in summary or aggregate. The site never asks for your name–or anything more personally identifiable than your email address. Everything else is like gender, household income, technical ability, etc.
I love getting to be one of the first to try out new programs and web apps, so this would be a great service if it could hook people up with quality, undiscovered web startups. And, as a web developer, having a centralized website where I could get a few hundred beta testers to try out my new web app would be a godsend. My guess is there are plenty of small or part-time web developers out there that can’t afford “real” testing or much advertising. Something like this would really help their development process.
Check it out and see what you think: BetaJunkie.com
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