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

Open AI's work is based off of Google's research paper. Google believes in open source! https://opensource.google/ Google will save us. Google will make their AI open source. Their motto is "Don't be evil"! ... But I'm still waiting for their source code of YouTube, Gmail, drive, maps, docs, sheets, forms, search, ads, translate, sites, etc. Source: over 1 year ago

It's not on google github/their open source git host(for comparison, the canonical go repo is), their readme makes no mention of google, wikipedia says "The language is expected to have a 1.0 release in 2024 or 2025.[4]",. Source: over 1 year ago

Google would have to open source the controller firmware for people to find a way to make Bluetooth work, but there are no discontinued Google products on opensource.google at all. Source: over 1 year ago

Https://opensource.google/ is not listing any dead Google products my dude. Source: over 1 year ago

And side note, don't bring up both MS and Google when both are well known to make use of FOSS. Google has an entire page about how they both make use of and release OSS. Source: about 2 years ago