Test your side project before you post it

Indie launches fail in small ways. The magic link lands in spam, the sign-up button does nothing on the first click, the first screen after login is empty, the post title is a pun nobody gets. You built it, so you cannot see any of this. The comments will tell you, but only after the wave has passed.

• Sign-up for strangers: simulated people try it in real browsers, with working inboxes.
• The landing page: what a cold visitor understands, and why they leave.
• The launch post: compare two titles on the same simulated readers.
• First test free, then a $9 Starter (120 credits that never expire) or monthly plans from $49.

Each simulated person fills in your sign-up with made-up details and an email address of their own on a Mimiq domain, with a working inbox. So a magic link or a confirmation code reaches them, and you find out whether it arrives, whether they can tell what to do with it, and what they see after it.

Every click and form entry records whether it moved them on, changed nothing or failed. A button that does nothing on the first click, or an error that only says "something went wrong", shows up as the step where people stopped.

They cannot sign in with Google or GitHub, so if social sign-in is the only option, they stop there. Anyone stopped by one is marked as blocked by the site, and if it stops everyone, the flow fails and nothing is charged. A staging or preview address without bot protection works, as long as it is public.

Signup flow testing

Launch traffic is cold and impatient. A page test shows your landing page to 25 simulated visitors in about 90 seconds; each one decides whether to sign up, stay, skim or leave, and says why. If most of them cannot tell what the product does from the first screen, fix that before anything else.

Describe the audience you are launching to, such as "developers who self-host their side projects" or "freelance writers", rather than the whole internet.

A launch post title is a headline, and headlines are where Mimiq's evidence is strongest. Paste two candidates into the headline tester; the same simulated readers react to both, and Mimiq makes a call: clear, leaning, or too close to call.

On 1,000 real headline A/B tests held out from its development, Mimiq's forecast picked the headline more readers clicked 76% of the time; the best rule of thumb, picking the headline written first, got 61%. That is evidence about headlines in general, not about your community's taste, so read the reasons as well as the call.

Compare two titles free

Whether your launch will take off. Timing, ranking and who happens to be online decide that. Simulated readers are not the people on the forum you post to, and they do not vote.

Whether people will pay or stick around. A flow covers sign-up and the first steps after it, up to the step limit; long-term use needs real users and your analytics.