I thought I'd try out feedback army on my new marketing website. To ensure that what I'd written was in line with what users understood it as.
For $10 you get 10 people to anonymously browse your site.
You give it a URL, and you can ask the users upto six questions, the default questions are pretty great. Along the lines of "what is the site about? how does it work? how do you get it?" etc.
I expected them to give one liners - but holy cow, I got entire paragraphs. They left comments on blog posts, they clicked and interacted with every element.
I guess the "negatives" to this is you can't guarantee quality testers - do I know if they even checked my site?" I used clicktale to track where they clicked, and you can even reject reviews that are nonsense.
I've only got 8/10 "reviews" so far, and they're really excellent. I'll be doing it again before we post it on Hacker News :)
http://feedbackarmy.com
I'm not affiliated in anyway... maybe this was the startup I inspired, thinking about it, I'll have to check Hacker News archives, I just thought you guys would appreciate this service.
too lazy to read: for $10 you get 10 users to beta test your site, and they answer your questions about your site.
That said, I'm an HN user too. If anyone has any questions you can contact me via the site, call the number, or send a carrier pigeon.
Thanks for the review too. Always appreciated.
P.S. I just found the original thread, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362459 yes pcclark, you and a few others were the inspiration for this project.