Looking for beta testers - Bitcoin penny auction site

[mhughes]

I spent the weekend hacking together my first foray into the bitcoin world.  It's a penny-auction site (like Quibids or any of the other similars) paid in bitcoin.

It will be auctioning off new items, and sometimes auctions for bitcoin itself.

I'm looking for a few beta testers to help work out the kinks.

What do you get:
  Free BTC!  Or at least a chance at winning some bitcoin on an auction.  I'm planning on going through 5BTC total in a few auctions over a week or so.  I'll spread around some free bids before each batch of test-auctions,  in this round of testing you don't have to spend anything, not a single BTC.

How to help:
  Sign up for an account at http://bidfast.co/
  Then post here letting me know some date/times you'd be available to try it

What do I get:
  A chance to test out the site.  Hopefully, you'll also be able to give me some feedback on what you think.

Details...
  I'm shooting for 6 batches of auctions with rewards from 0.2 to 2 BTC

[malevolent]

I'm looking for a few beta testers to help work out the kinks.

What do you get:
  Free BTC!  Or at least a chance at winning some bitcoin on an auction.  I'm planning on going through 5BTC total in a few auctions over a week or so.  I'll spread around some free bids before each batch of test-auctions,  in this round of testing you don't have to spend anything, not a single BTC.

How to help:
  Sign up for an account at http://bidfast.co/
  Then post here letting me know some date/times you'd be available to try it

What do I get:
  A chance to test out the site.  Hopefully, you'll also be able to give me some feedback on what you think.

Details...
  I'm shooting for 6 batches of auctions with rewards from 0.2 to 2 BTC

Registered few minutes ago, my login is the same as on this forum.

[Liquid]

Registered few minutes ago

whenever you need me 

[qwertyqwerty]

I've registered too, same account name as forum. I'm usually here around this time of post.

[Bitcoin Oz]

Domain Name:                                 BIDFAST.CO
Domain ID:                                   D36765102-CO
Sponsoring Registrar:                        NAME.COM LLC
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID:                625
Registrar URL (registration services):       http://www.name.com/
Domain Status:                               clientTransferProhibited
Registrant ID:                               NECWP050166ZMSEB
Registrant Name:                             Protected Domain Services - Customer ID:
NEC-4215717
Registrant Organization:                     Protected Domain Services - Customer ID:
NEC-4215717
Registrant Address1:                         P.O. Box 6197
Registrant City:                             Denver
Registrant State/Province:                   CO
Registrant Postal Code:                      80206
Registrant Country:                          United States
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Registrant Email:                           


Are you going to tell people who you are and why they should trust your site ?

[mhughes]

Thanks for everyone who has been signing up.  Would like just a couple more people before the first test.  I'm hoping I can start one tomorrow (Wed Sep 26) around Noon EST - I'll shoot out an email letting you know.

Are you going to tell people who you are and why they should trust your site ?

I wasn't worrying too much about that since I'm not asking for any money from anyone yet.  But this is me:

Code:

Marc Hughes
Rogue Software Development LLC
MA, USA

That should be enough info for anyone who's interested to find me.  I'll post a proper about-us style page on the site with more info before it goes live for real.

Thanks for the intrest from everyone!

[mhughes]

We definitely have enough people for a test tomorrow.  Still taking signups for anyone else interested.


Some notes about the site...

This is a very minimal site that only functions enough to test out the viability of the idea.  If you've ever heard the terms Lean Startup or Minimal Viable Product, that's what we're doing here.  This is the best time to make suggestions to help us improve what will eventually be the final product, and I really appreciate any feedback I can get.

[Digigami]

signed up, same username as here

[cambda]

We definitely have enough people for a test tomorrow.

Maybe you could list a new item on home page with countdown timer on it. 24hours count down timer should be ok, so most of us catch up this free auction

[SaltySpitoon]

I too signed up, under the same Username as here.

[phantastisch]

I too signed up, under the same Username as here.

+1

[allthingsluxury]

Best of luck to you. Hopefully your site does well.

[caffeinewriter]

I signed up on there as well. I'm available upon request.

EDIT: Same name Caffeinewriter

[wong RAP]

I'll just give notes here and maybe other people will join in with me.

The first thing about your site is that is looks like a site you'd find on linkbucks or something. What I mean by that is, it just looks to good to be true.
The layout is too basic, not eye popping enough and most people (including myself) would just close without a second though.
Nothing of this site looks like it promises what its saying.

Of course it is beta but a little work can go a long way, I'll still critique it before it goes alpha.

[cambda]

We definitely have enough people for a test tomorrow.

No news regarding the test?

[mhughes]

No news regarding the test?

I sent an email to all the registered users this morning with details.

-Marc

[qwertyqwerty]

Under Chrome, sometimes when I hover over the auction type link, the description fades in momentarily, but disappears too fast to read.
I think it happens when you hover on/off it before it fully fades in then hover back on.

[mhughes]

Congrats to djohn for winning the first one.

Thanks everyone for the first test.  Please do leave any feedback.

Had a few timing/display issues that need sorting out.  I'll be looking into those before the next test.

Winning payout transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx-index/27606800/0846d043be35b3ca7a2b2f739eb49a6153c38de772a0467001be70951cbec73a

[djohn]

The bids went smoothly, except maybe the last second before the end of the auction where it seemed like the counter went from 0:01 to 0:00 twice meaning that it did something like 0:01 -> 0:00 -> 0:01 -> 0:00.

[mhughes]

The bids went smoothly, except maybe the last second before the end of the auction where it seemed like the counter went from 0:01 to 0:00 twice meaning that it did something like 0:01 -> 0:00 -> 0:01 -> 0:00.

Yeah, I noticed that too.  Want to get it fixed before the next one.

Did you ever see the "Going..." message?