What is the best way to get early feedback on a product, before fully launching it?

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Newbie here. 2 months out from launching my first product and feeling very overwhelmed. I'm hoping to get some feedback on my product before actually 'launching' it, what's the best way to do that?

Pierre Prior · Accepted Answer

A Landing Page with an early access for beta users?

Marvin Blum · Answer

Find people you like to collect feedback from. Family and friends are often not the best idea, since they're biased. We had some contact to our target audience for Emvi and asked nicely if they could have a look.

Paula Barcante · Answer

Thanks so much for the feedback everyone! If you wouldn't mind, could you checkout my landing page and provide overall thoughts and feedback 🙏🏽? I'd much appreciate it. https://joysterapp.com/

Raphael Wartanian · Answer

Test prototypes with potential users - could be in form of an interview, screen sharing voip call, or just a questionnaire

Fabian Maume · Answer

I like to outreach potential user on Linkedin using Phantombuster automations. You can also check out top writers of relevant topics on Quora. Quora as a direct message feature you can use to ask them for feedbacks. Before the product launch setup proper analytics: - Setup conversion goal in google analytics - Setup session recording tool like SmartLook

Elise · Answer

Seek out some potential users. Onboard them to your idea, show them your product at which ever state it is in and listen to their feedback.

Henrique Chappuis · Answer

Do you have some waitlist?

Brian Anthony · Answer

Build an audience on Social Media, Reach out to the fans of the group, offer it for free or cheap, then send them to where you want the feedback left.

Robin Nessensohn · Answer

Share prototypes in social media and to your product hunt subscribers. When you have some people that give you feedback, ask them whether it is ok to approach them again for the next prototype. Try to use those feedback circle to understand who your main target customer is and what their needs are.

Oliver Wolf · Answer

you can create a product hunt upcoming page. I've did this with my future product: https://www.producthunt.com/makers/projects/6172

But, I think it is more effective to use the paid plan as product hunt will promote your upcoming products.

Also I submitted to https://betalist.com/ and https://betapage.co/ 
And maybe you find some more platforms here: https://alternativeto.net/software/betapage/

So far I did not spend money on promoting the beta, but I think i will make free a budget of 500€ to go to the paid plan of the upcoming, betapage and betalist.

What did you try so far?

Wasil AR · Answer

I'd reaching to my special niche through social, channeling all the efforts to demo or landing page. Make sure your demo/page has some analytics or something to catch leads. I used hotjar and full story.

Hotjar really beneficial to give me leads since they have short polling that I can follow up later for more depth feedback. Both of them provides user story and heat map so that also adding qualitative feedback on your product

Paula Barcante · Answer

@rachel_allen Both? Any tips would be amazing 🙏

Paula Barcante · Answer

@parthi_logan Any tips on a successful PH launch?

Jana Cagorovic · Answer

hey @paula_barcante 👋 do you have a trial program? Give the option to sign up to your product and sent out a quick survey. Any interesting website widget with the option to give feedback would also be good.

Parthi Loganathan · Answer

@paula_barcante Get a hunter to hunt you. Launch early in the morning PST. Have succinct description, a compelling narrative and good visuals. Beyond that having a product that PH people are interested in helps. I still haven't really had a successful PH launch yet. Referlist is the first one to barely break top 5.

What is the best way to get early feedback on a product, before fully launching it?

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