Currently the customer drive their own traffic (via the guides on the website). Mechanical turk is something I've thought about, but it's not really an accurate representation of a wide market, so I'm not sure the results would have much value.
It's not just startups that I'm targeting, but individuals who might have a couple of cool ideas that want to make that first step and see if they're as cool as what they thought.
1) I believe that a landingpage can validate and 'idea' as you can use it to gage interest, via the visitor clicking through for information, time spent on the page, number of times the visitor returns etc.
2) I think it's fairly well documented that ideas on their own don't mean anything, they have little if no value. It's the execution that counts and if quicklytest.it is the first step in execution then great! It gets you out of the door.
Although chrisacky flagged up some major issues in security above, there is more than one server/ domain running the system which they didn't discover. Once there is around 50 users on a server / domain I've created a new one.So thankfully chrisacky only managed to discover a small amount of users active on the service currently.
The feedback was from techy people, but not necessarily people who know the ins and outs of startups.
That's a good point though, perhaps if I just told the end user 'Probably would work' rather than 24% overall conversion rate it might be more user friendly.
Hi Colin. Yes I agree it's a fine balance between not having a product and pretty much spamming and wanting to get out of the door with something that could be really valuable to a lot of people.
I've found that the service is really useful to those who wouldn't be able to test their ideas (not technical, not enough time etc) and I know a couple of projects that have come out of it so far that look really good. So have faith.
Mm that's a good point though, perhaps I could include something about it being suitable for 'lean startups'. Is that copyrighted I wonder?
It seems like just hot or not?