If you have a bit more budget, you can also recruit participants from online panels (like userinterviews.com or respondent.io). For an incentive, you can screen the right people to participate in your playtest. Keep in mind you will need to do some vetting and make sure you're not getting "professional" participants. Source: over 1 year ago

I used userinterviews.com recently for a really specific type of targeted user and was impressed with their ability to get folks. It isn't cheap, and I don't know if it would work in other cases, but I would suggest checking it out. Source: over 1 year ago

Userinterviews.com is where we typically go, but it's still costly (~75 per participant, depending on recruiting needs). Source: over 1 year ago

Hey! Does anyone have experience with userinterviews.com for getting feedback? Wondering if the price is worth it for validating my idea and talking with users who fit my target profile. Are there any other good options? Source: over 1 year ago

PMs constantly pay people to do interviews with them, via usertesting.com, userinterviews.com, etc. Not sure if I'm missing something here. Source: over 1 year ago

Do the same with Techstars. https://toolkit.techstars.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

There are a lot of great resources here regarding pitching your startup and getting things going. https://toolkit.techstars.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

One can definetely do it, if you know how to overcome your weaknesses. It sounds like you want to start a product-based business? Either way, check out https://www.strategyzer.com, https://toolkit.techstars.com & https://www.startupschool.org. Source: almost 3 years ago