Check your explanation, signup flow, core task, and feedback route before inviting anyone to try your product.
This checklist covers the experience before an invitation. The main guide connects it to recruitment, testing, and follow-up. Find your first users View guide
A new visitor should be able to tell who the product helps and what they can do with it. Use a concrete description and show the actual interface rather than relying on a slogan.
Give visitors a way to understand the experience before they invest time in signup. A demo, walkthrough, or honest preview can help when the product itself requires an account.
Do not promise anonymous access if it is unavailable. Oh My Product currently offers its community preview after sign-in; participation remains closed.
Put a monitored contact method where participants can find it. Test it yourself and tell people what kind of response they can expect. A visible address is only useful if someone checks it.
Use a fresh account to complete the intended task. Repeat the important steps while signed out and on a phone. Check errors, recovery, and permission boundaries as well as the happy path.
List unavailable actions, known issues, and how participant data will be handled. Verify the privacy and terms pages are accessible before asking someone to consent.
The promised task should work from start to finish, with clear limits and a way to report problems. The number of features is not the readiness criterion.
Yes, if people can understand and use the core flow. Fix readability, accessibility, and misleading controls before spending time on decorative polish.
Once the experience is ready to test, return to the main guide and choose where to meet relevant participants.