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Yeah it's good practice to take your private beta slow and invite early adopters in small batches. Seeing your service is all about understanding your users, how did you decide which users to give access to the private beta first? Or was it just chronologically?

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At first chronological for the first few hundred, and then when server bills (and SaaS monitoring, backups etc.) stopped been insignificant, we switched to:

1) only honouring the promotions we had out there 2) the paid priority access people (Paying $19, then $29, to get access) 3) people from startups who could offer us a good PR boost by association on launch

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