Hey Product Hunt! 👋

If you've launched an Android app on a personal Google Play developer account recently, you know the pain: before you can apply for access to production, you must run a closed test with at least 12 testers opted-in for at least 14 days.

Finding testers in forums is exhausting. You end up joining a dozen separate Google Groups, hitting "Item not found" on Google Play, chasing screenshots in DMs, and getting ghosted by testers who install your app once and never open it again.

I built BetaLobby to take the friction out of the whole closed testing workflow, and just used it to pass closed testing and release BetaLobby itself to production on Google Play:

• One Google Group & pre-checked apps: join a single shared Google Group once. Every submitted app is checked for the group setup and region availability first, so no more joining 15 different groups or hitting "Item not found."

• Team mode & Auto Pair: join a 16-developer team (15 testers, a 3-tester buffer above the 12-tester requirement) or match 1:1 at your own pace.

• On-device install verification: zero screenshots. BetaLobby confirms installs directly on the device.

• Daily check-ins & TRUST: installing once isn't enough. BetaLobby tracks daily check-ins (actually opening the apps across the 14 days) with push reminders, backed by a 100-point TRUST score that penalizes freeloaders and early dropouts.

BetaLobby is completely free, no paid plans. Built by an indie dev for indie devs.

What was the hardest part of your own closed test? I'd love to hear it.