There is a reason why the Web 2.0 is in love with crowdsourcing. Not only it generate great feedbacks for a product or service, but it also creates valuable connections.
The best example is Gmail. It started as an invite-only email service on April 1, 2004. (Good one, Google!) During the ‘invite-only’ period, many features were tested within a controlled environment and finally in February 2007, Gmail was made accessible to the public.
Google did that with its now-forgotten social website, Orkut and they are doing this again with Google Glass.
Learning from the internet giant, we thought it would be great if we do our own invite-only beta testing, back in January. This was a time when we were confident of the product that we built and we were anxious of showing it to everyone. However, we lacked the assurance factor.
We knew that we were biased in our opinions.
So, as soon as people returned to their work after Christmas holidays, we invited many from the Cloud community to stress-test our platform. We did because we wanted to create a product which is made for the web users. They happily obliged. We were quite honored to see that many of them thoroughly examined the capabilities of our platform.
These people are stars. We can never thank them enough.
When we invited them for testing, we promised that every tester will be given a special place on our website. Today, we fulfill this promise by launching our Board of Contributors page. This page has useful information about our testers as well as their candid feedbacks on the Cloudways Cloud platform. Plus, the list will grow as we are actively gathering data from contributors who are currently testing our platform.
Check the page out by clicking the button below. (Plus, if you want to test our platform, start your FREE trial from the banner underneath the button.)
Saad Durrani
Saad is the Senior Editor at Cloudways - A Managed Cloud Hosting Platform. He is a technology enthusiast who loves to blog about emerging technologies and trends. When he is not blogging, he goes to the beach to find inspiration for his fictional stories.
