What's Private Beta?
You need an invitation to join our little party.
We don’t let just anybody hang out with us. Nope. Only the cool kids.* We do this so we can monitor and control the growth of our user base, which helps us keep things running smoothly in these early stages.
We’re counting on your feedback.
We’re constantly fixing, tweaking, and polishing here (especially right now). We do our best, but you — the users — know best. Tell us what you love, what you hate, what’s confusing. The most helpful feedback we get is when we learn what’s hard to find or what is hard to do (well, if something’s broken, that’s pretty important, too…). This way we can make things better for you.**
Communicate this stuff to us via the Contact Us link on the friendsell.com page or through a message to “The Friendsell Team,” or, of course, through this blog.
We’re counting on your participation.
In order to help us out with whole feedback thing (see above if for some weird reason you jumped to this item first), we need you to actually be using the site. Sounds crazy, right? Posting things. Sending messages. Inviting friends. Doing searches. If you don’t use the site, how the heck are you gonna know what works and what doesn’t. So go for it! Go to your closet or basement, find something you don’t use anymore (we ALL have something). Post it on friendsell.com. Then, send out some invites telling your friends/family/coworkers to check it out. If you want to be one of the REALLY cool kids, point them to this blog post and encourage them to follow your lead.
So, yeah, we’re asking a lot of our private beta users, and we know it. As a result, we will soon be showing our appreciation with a promotion that is just for you guys (<–bolded so you don’t skip over this part), so keep an eye out for that.***
*Don’t worry, our definition of “cool” is VERY broad (since we had to make sure our nerdy selves fell within its bounds).
** Kind of like those “Windows 7 was my idea” ads, but not made up. You could say — “moving that button to this side of the page…that was ALL me” — and it might actually be true!
*** Not-so-subtle hint: It will be tied to the things we ask of you above!