How do you collect feedback from beta users before your PH launch?

The same, this is good approach! Worked for me too

I usually find 3-5 users that fit 100% to my target user profile a week ago before launch. I give them the app for free and tell them to try it out. If they are your target customer, they naturally give u feedback and tell you what to improve. I have done that 3 times in the past and I had a very smooth launch. I even do it today with the product i launched, and it is featured and top 3 ;)

Used the same, you can also make some posts on Reddit or IndieHackers, easy to find people willing to beta test there!

I am trying to get feedback on the beta version of my product as well these days and found that using the #buildinpublic will also get you good amount of views and draws people that are interested to help other indie hackers.

I have been very unsuccessfully emailing people who sign up for accounts on the personal finance tool I've been building. I guess it is some signal when nobody replies, but it does make me wonder if my approach to collecting the feedback is just wrong.

honestly i cant believe dm'ing users and offering a discount works. I guess you must really hit a pain point for them and they are psyched! I feel like most people are pretty protective of their time, so i would guess 90% off a price that i dont have much context on isnt that strong of a lever, but i must be off somewhere.

@gamifykaran kaWhere do you DM people? and how do you make sure the customer has this problem and your product is solving their problem?

This sounds like a great strategy! 🔥

Would be even better to get the number from 20 to 50, to get the broader picture, but I understand that it might be a struggle.

I post on Twitter or Reddit to get feedback on features or problems worth solving. If someone’s interested, I ask if they want to beta test. When they say yes, I DM them - they’re already warmed up.

Underrated: use feature flags to get feedback and track early adoption.

Beyond the qualitative data you get from user calls, you can flag features to collect quantitative data. That's something we're doing constantly at @Bucket — full disclosure: we're a FF provider.

We recently rolled out a beta feature and wanted to make sure we get it right before making it GA. We used a requestFeedback function and triggered it on a button.

It looks like this:

function newFeature() {  

  const { isEnabled, requestFeedback } = useFeature("new-feature");  
  
  if (!isEnabled) return null;  
  
  return (    
    <div>      
      New feature is ON      
      <button onClick={(e)=        
        requestFeedback({          
          "title": "How do you like this new feature?"        
        });        
        Give feedback      
      </button>    
    </div>  
  );
}

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Love this feedback loop! I’m prepping for a launch myself with PageX—it’s free and focused on helping with real-time SEO analysis. I’ve been doing a mix of reaching out to people directly and seeing what sticks. Definitely learning a lot from these conversations!

I totally agree with the idea of getting real, honest feedback early on. It's always those small tweaks that make a big difference. Can’t wait to see how others are approaching their beta stages too!