Best places to get an objective product review?

Björn Morén
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Can you recommend a good place where I can submit my product (in my case an app for gym training) and get an evaluation of its potential, its strength and weaknesses, suggestions for a marketing strategy, etc? Can be a community of peers, or paying some professional app reviewer, or similar. In my case I thought I had a real winner of a product, but now I understand that this might not be the case, so I need to figure out what I need to change. EDIT: In hindsight, I realized that there is no substitution for getting the product in the hands of my target segment, and getting their feedback, so my question is a bit redundant.

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I don't know of anywhere but have you considered reading "The Mom Test" - it's really great for product validation
Björn Morén
@maxwellcdavis Thanks, but my product is targeted for a very specific group, so I doubt a mom test would give me much insight. Actually, after I started this discussion topic, I realized that the only people able to give good feedback on my product is the target group itself.
Misha Krunic
@maxwellcdavis @bjorn_moren I was just about to write it before I've read your comment. Since you've narrowed down your target audience already, it's probably the best to try and ask someone from it to give you honest feedback. Btw, I know from personal experience that it can be a difficult process. Good luck!
Björn Morén
@maxwellcdavis @price2spy Yea, this is harder than I initially thought, because I don't enjoy bothering people.
@price2spy @bjorn_moren If they are already using your product just make sure you're providing feedback points - it's a cheap and easy way to kick off a discussion
Christian C
good question, would be interested as well in what other people think. What about g2, capterra, trustradius etc...?
Björn Morén
@chriscarex Thanks Christian. I haven't heard of those three before so I took a look at them. The first two are B2B services (my clients are consumers). Trustradius looks interesting, but they don't cover my segment at all (fitness/health/gym). Will try to find more options.
Björn Morén
@chriscarex I haven't found exactly what we are looking for, but here is a list of websites that connects you with beta testers: https://appsamurai.com/10-places... And on Fiverr there are professional reviewers you can pay to look at your website/app and provide feedback, for example this guy: https://www.fiverr.com/peco/cond... In my case, I need to get in touch with a very specific user segment, so I doubt these services would be helpful, but maybe useful for you.