Getting honest, detailed feedback is essential when building a SaaS product. The problem is that it’s incredibly hard to get it online. When you ask for feedback on the internet, you usually end up in one of two situations:
Either your post gets flagged or removed for being promotional,
or it gets instantly buried under hundreds of other creators sharing their own projects.
You can turn to paid testing services, like UserTesting or Userlytics but those options quickly become expensive.
In this article, I want to share an effective and practical way to get feedback, without the usual frustrations and without spending money.
What if feedback worked as an exchange?
Let me start with a simple observation. Every day, you see Reddit posts like “What are you building today?”. Dozens of creators reply and present their projects, but almost no one actually looks at what others are building.
Why? Because that’s not why they’re there. They’re looking for early users and feedback on their own product, not to discover new tools.
But what if they knew they would receive feedback on their own product in exchange for giving feedback to others? Wouldn’t that change things?
Spending 15 minutes testing someone else’s product suddenly becomes a great investment if it guarantees a detailed review in return.
Introducing TestYourApp
TestYourApp.io is a new platform built around this exact idea.
The concept is very simple:
- You test someone else’s app and earn a credit.
- You use your credits to get your own app tested.
Feedback quality is ensured through structured testing forms and a tester rating system that discourages low-effort reviews.
The platform follows a freemium model, with all core features available for free. A premium upgrade simply removes the limitation of opening one test every three days.
TestYourApp is designed to be a smart, fair, and transparent way to get high-quality feedback without pulling out your credit card or shouting into the void on Reddit.
How it works in practice
- Create an account on TestYourApp.
- Submit your application and open it for testing.
- Test few other apps to earn credits.
- You should then start receiving feedback on your own product fairly quickly.
Once the feedback comes in, you can act on it. Fix the bug reported by one tester, improve onboarding based on another suggestion, tweak your homepage according to a third, and so on.
Then repeat the process:
- Test few apps.
- Receive three tests.
- Fix, improve, iterate.
Keep going until your product feels stable, polished, and validated.
And there’s more
This process gives you much more than just feedback.
- You’ll likely find your first real users, some of whom may even become paying customers.
- You can reuse the feedback you receive as social proof on your landing page.
- You’ll also discover other projects along the way, some useful, others inspiring.
Getting feedback doesn't have to be frustrating or expensive.
If you're tired of shouting into the void or paying for generic reviews, give the exchange approach a try. Test a couple of apps, earn your credits, and see what kind of feedback you get.
The worst that can happen? You'll discover a few interesting projects along the way.
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