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I am in the process overhauling my company's bets program. I have previous experience managing betas, so I know what I should be doing. But I am very interested in your experiences…

yes.. I have checked out prefinery. I think it is okay. But I wanted to go deeper into the management of the beta to increase participation. So I ended up developing a new platform…

I am playing around with the idea of developing a new beta platform. I have been running beta's for my current company and am frustrated with the current state of beta management s…

slow down and don't jump the gun on your decision, get more information, talk to other people and get their opinions.

I love building web apps and can build MVP's with the best of them. My problem is that I suck at customer discovery. So I tend to build web MVP's that go no where with little to no…

I am curious on what everyone uses to manage their betas. Something like prefinery or maybe a homegrown app?

Thanks for the comment yolesaber.. I had the same reaction when I started using rapportive. Any additional information to help me decide if this person is legit or not would save t…

I love the submissions so far. Here is my latest side project: http://www.getkontxt.com . Think Rapportive for content and Stripe for the api. My thought was adding additional data…

I recently launched this beta site to generate feedback and see if this idea resonates with potential customers. My goal was to provide businesses context about who is interacting …

Thanks for the link.. I will definitely check it out.

Some days are better for news than others. Is any one particular time better than another to get maximum exposure for your beta launch? Mondays, Fridays, Early, Lunch, Late.. what …

I have a new idea for a game. The game is mostly text based and doesn't require heavy graphics. The game centers around social competition through a series of random challenges (mo…

You should checkout the jQuery timeline plugin. I could see that being a very effective with the horizontal scrollbar to control playback at a macro level. Cool project. The sample…

I totally agree.. In the end all you are doing is devaluing your service. You are basically saying.. sure I want $64/hour but the work is really worth $20/hour. Take the extra time…

No problems, I left at lot of the details out because I didn't think it was relative to the posts. The contract was a fixed price to deliver the system and only gave me 18 months o…

I am starting a new project and I am curious what you do for hosted contact forms? I really don't want to go through adding a full backend just to support a contact form. I know of…

Thanks for the advice. I didn't want people thinking I was just link baiting so that is why I included a description.

Clickable link: http://oakcitylabs.com/2012/10/17/how-i-interpret-jeff-atwoo...