I’ve solo developed an Android game as a hobby, but the 12+ testers at the same time for 14+ days requirement is a nightmare.

If you developed an app, how did you get past this? My game is fully free, no ads, no in-app purchases, so paying for testers isn’t an option either.

Maybe I’m just lacking friends (:

  • catharso@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    11 days ago

    i developed my first app and ran into the same problem.

    then i went to fiver to hire someone to test. there were lots of offers to help with this exact problem.

    but then, when i wanted to lookup some information he needed i noticed, that my app was already approved and available in the play store.

    i had to ask the guy for a refund and he grumpily refunded ^^

    i definitely had the requirement notifications in the console. but those also suddenly disappeared.

    maybe because my dev account was already a few years old, although i never actually used it before.

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      Huh, interesting. They might have tightened up the requirements, there are way too many scams out there.

      This is where I’m at (after exhausting all options so far):

      It doesn’t look too bad, but then you have to keep in mind only testers actually playing the game for 14+ days count, which is insane. Maybe I’ll have to go to Fiver as you said :)