If your Play developer account was created after 13 November 2023, you need 12 testers opted in for 14 continuous days before you can ship to production. So you need 12 humans with Android devices who will keep your app installed for two weeks.
Here is an honest look at where people go for that.
Posting in subreddits
The obvious move, and the one that gets people banned. Most developer subreddits treat "please test my app" as self-promotion, and the ones that allow it have a dedicated thread that everyone ignores. If you do try it, read the rules first, because a ban costs you the account, not just the post.
What does sometimes work is answering other people's questions for a while first, so you are a person and not a request. That takes weeks, which you may not have.
Paid tester services
They exist, they charge somewhere between 20 and 50 dollars, and they do deliver accounts. The question is what those accounts are. If they are farms, you get 12 installs that behave identically and never open the app, which does technically satisfy the counter and teaches you nothing about your app.
If you are paying for feedback, this is the wrong purchase. If you are paying to satisfy a checkbox, it works, and you should know that is what you bought.
Friends and family
Free, willing, and the usual reason people fail. Not because they mean badly, but because a favour has no deadline. Three of them will forget to install, one will uninstall to free up space in week two, and you will not find out until the count resets.
If you go this route, over-recruit heavily and check the count yourself instead of trusting that everyone did what they said.
Trading with other developers
The one arrangement where the incentive is symmetric. Every developer with a new Play account needs the same 12 testers you do. Testing someone else's app for two weeks costs you almost nothing, and it buys you the same from them.
That is what I built the tester exchange for: https://devconnectplatform.com/app-testing. It is free, there are no ads, and the reason it works is not the software, it is that both sides need the trade.
Whatever you choose, count properly
The 14 days only run while at least 12 testers are opted in, and one drop-out can put you back near the start. Count from the day you actually reached 12, and watch for drops. Free tracker if you want one, no account: https://devconnectplatform.com/tools/closed-test-tracker
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