Ogan Kurtuluş

Getting people to try your product is easy.

Getting the right people to pay it is much harder.

I ve been trying different ways to find "paying" users for Murmell, and some worked way better than others.

One of my young and enthusiastic maker followers recently asked me for advice on finding alpha testers.

And honestly I realized I m not the best person to answer this one =D

We built RunEvr inside an animation studio, so our team of artists naturally became our first alpha testers.
We had a real product, a real team, and a real workflow to test it on from day one.

So I couldn t really give advice based on my own experience.

Got zero mentions across all four.

Spent the last few days building what's basically the standard GEO playbook now, llms.txt, markdown mirrors of every page, honest comparison content against competitors, the works.

Then actually ran the test instead of assuming it worked: asked all four models "what's the best calorie tracking app" a handful of different ways. My app came up exactly zero times. Not even cited as a

source. Same five competitor names every single time, regardless of engine.