Maxime Bertonnier

Why Makers Wall exists

Like many others, I’m a solo developer trying to make it online and ship tools and apps with real value. After finishing my first few projects, I came to realize that getting proper feedback is hard when you’re working alone or in a very small team.

Insightful feedback is invaluable but hard to get from friends and relatives. It takes a designer to give design feedback, another founder to find issues with your pricing, a developer to unearth hidden bugs. Makers Wall is where makers find each other for that: you test someone’s project, they test yours.

How I run it

• Nothing is for sale. Credits are earned by testing other projects and can’t be bought, so nobody pays their way to more testers.
• Reports are rated. Makers rate every test they get; a careful report raises a tester’s score and a “nice app!” lowers it.
• Reports stay private between the maker and the tester, so testers can say what is really broken.

The full rules are in the FAQ.