The User Interview Exchange: Give an interview, get an interview. It's ll free.

Finding interviewees for user interviews in our target segment is time-consuming and/or expensive. With The User Interview Exchange (UIX), you sign up, post your user interview request, and get email alerts when potential interviewees apply. It's all free.

Doing market reasearch is an easy to ignore task. Late last week, I was in an interview for an accelerator. They asked me how many potential customers I had talked to and challenged me to talk to 40. I very quickly learned how difficult it was to actually find people to talk to. Still, it's probably the most repeated thing that accelerators say: talk to your customers. I tried UserInterviewExchange earlier this week and got an interview from Mike himself. Certainly, it is new so there aren't many people available yet but the experience was good. I'm still trying to get to 40 myself so I'll be using it for a while.

@scottrogowski Thank you, it was a pleasure being an interviewee for Fastmap :)

Hi PH community! I'm Mike, the founder of The User Interview Exchange (UIX). One of the challenges I've had in the past when validating or improving a product is recruiting users who aren't already customers to be interviewees for user research. When I conducted user interviews for UIX, I learned that founders, product managers, and UX professionals follow many of the same hacks I used in the past to get interviewees (friends, family, co-workers, Craiglist, Facebook, recruiting sites like UserInterviews.com). These hacks are great if you have friends and family in your target segment, co-workers, and/or budget. But if you don't, there's a lot of time involved in seeking out potential interviewees. I found that I spent more than four minutes recruiting for every minute I spent conducting a user interview. UIX gets the ratio of time spent recruiting to time spent in the user interview down to a one-to-one ratio. Every time you help another person in the community as an interviewee, you earn a UIX Token. A UIX is redeemable for one new user interview request for your research. The more you help the community, the more user interviews you earn. I'd love to hear about the last time your recruited interviewees for a user interview!