How do you find beta testers?

[Marian Petrides, MD]

When I wrote an app to teach Transfusion Medicine, I selected 10 friends and colleagues--5 of them content experts in the field with no particular computer expertise and 5 of them friends I knew from Apple User Groups from way back in the days when all Apple ][ users were "hobbyists." The latter were tasked with beating up on the software, trying to break it. All of them got a free copy of the software. 

This worked quite well. In all the years the software was sold, I never got a single bug report, although I have gotten content feedback through the same publisher. 

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> On Apr 12, 2017, at 2:06 PM, Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> I have been getting feedback from friends and family on my app, but I want to find a wider circle of testers. I plan to seek testers on the use-list as well, but for now I am trying to find a couple dozen nonprogrammers so I can judge how the average public reacts to the app.
> 
> How do those of you who program for the general public do this?