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If you were hanging out on Meta.SO yesterday, you might have seen Alex Miller (no relation)'s post about a potential new Stack Exchange service for 'matchmaking' between developers and potential beta testers.

If you missed it, I'll summarize: We've got a community of talented iOS and OS X developers hanging out on Stack Overflow, and a committed community of power users and enthusiasts hanging out here on Ask Different. Doesn't it seem natural to provide a way to help people interested in testing new software and developers in need of alpha and beta testers find each other?

A program like this would be completely free and strictly opt-in for both developers and beta testers.

So: would you be interested in participating in something like this?

If you're interested in getting this program started, please see this post where I request aid in putting together an ad to promote this idea!

Update (Summer 2011):
We are looking to start rolling this project forward. If you are interested in beta testing an app, please fill out this form.

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It's been reported in chat that "What carrier is your mobile device on?" is a required question, but individuals may not have an iPhone, but wish to participate with their desktops, laptops, non-cellular iPads, and iPod Touches. The current workaround is to use 'none' or 'n/a' or some such. Can this question be marked as not required? – Jason Salaz♦ Aug 16 '11 at 17:14
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@VxJasonxV Done. Thanks for the feedback! – Abby T. Miller♦ Aug 16 '11 at 17:16
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The main (multi-audience) question in Meta Stack Overflow: We're ready to beta test our beta tester matchmaking program – Graham Perrin Aug 19 '11 at 9:17
When will this be happening? – daviesgeek Sep 21 '11 at 21:40
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Abby, you probably should have canned the link when you updated the tags. Since this got bumped up to the top you're going to get a whole bunch of new submissions instead. Unless that was your intention and you'll keep them around for the future. In which case, carry on. – Jason Salaz♦ Jul 31 '12 at 7:47

closed as too localized by Abby T. Miller♦, Daniel Lawson♦ Jul 31 '12 at 15:43

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I would also be ready to help beta-test programs.

I own an iPhone 3GS, a MacBook (unibody, white) running Lion and an iPad (first gen) and would be ready to test on all of them.

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I would love to.

I own a MacBook Pro, and an iPhone 3Gs.

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I would definitely be interested in participating in a program like this for OS X and iOS apps.

I've beta tested before and enjoyed it.

Thanks guys; this is a cool idea!

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Yes - I'd be interested in seeing this.

Currently http://testflightapp.com is the only other service I'm aware of that does this. There is plenty or room another with a SE flavor / style

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One power use here saying YUS.

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I'd definitely be interested in testing both OS X and iOS programs.

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This makes a ton of sense and I would love to do some testing.

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Yes I would be interested. Currently only OSX

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I'd love to.

I own a MacBook Pro running both Lion and Snow Leopard, and an iPhone 3GS.

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Count me in. I love testing out new software, and often find some gems among them.

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I would love to participate. I have a 2011 MBP (OS 10.6.8) and a 2006 (??) PowerPC G5 (10.4.X) :-)

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