Validately (online platform, Paid tests)

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This is a review of my experience as tester.

They are a legit company and pay $10 USA per test. 

Like many other UX companies, you have to pass an entry test, not paid, to be admitted. Once you are, you fill-in some general info about your demographics and wait for the tests to be thrown at you. 

You are informed of any test by email, not on the site. That is, there is no member area or dashboard for testers on their website where to find the tests.  You just get the link if something matches your demographic. Click on the test link and follow the prompts. To do the test on the desktop you have to use Chrome browser and install their recording extension; on the phone, you have to download their app from Google Play. 

Although they do send tests often, they don't seem to have the volume of tests that other UX companies have, so testers are like hungry zombies at the smell of a healthy human. Once the email arrives, even if it takes you three seconds to open it, the page is already locked and shows a message saying that there are too many testers trying to access the test at the same time, try again. You keep trying, by reloading the page, to not avail. Then, the test is over and you got nothing. Or simply, you get there and, in the unlikely case no one is fighting for the test, you get through the screener and this one rejects you. All of these situations are very frustrating. 


The phone app is really nice and user friendly, definitely the best I've tried from different companies. However, it could be better designed. If, by mistake, you press step two without having finished step one, there is no arrow or way of going back, not even by using your phone back arrow option.That's bad design.

Once you perform the test and it's uploaded onto the cloud, you'll receive an email saying that they've got it, that they'll  review it within seven days and, if accepted, they'll pay you in the following seven days via PayPal.

It takes about 7 days for the test to be reviewed, and if the rating is acceptable they immediately pay you by PayPal, which is really nice.

Unless you fit their preferred demographics, you won't earn much there. That's at least my experience. So there are greener pastures out there; this is a sort of small shed you keep just in case it rains something, if you know what I mean.

Still, they are reliable and have a good deal of business.

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TrymyUI (Online Platform, Paid Tests)

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To be accepted you have to perform a free test, which will be examined. If you are considered fit, you will be part of their panel of remote testers. You need to download a program that will allow them to record your screen and voice and tests will be done in real time. Tests are paid well and you won't spend much time on each. 

They are the most didactic of the bunch. Before you start your acceptance test, they explain to you how the system work. You have to download a mini program, very easy to use, that will do the recording and uploading, so they take the time to explain to you how it works. None of the other companies bothers, so that's really cool and considerate.

These is a legit company, but if you are remote tester, might not find any source of income here.

They do email tests according to your demographic, but there are so many people waiting for them, that you'll be lucky if you get any.

It happens to me, all the time: I takes me barely three seconds to open the browser with the emailed link and I get the message that someone is already taking it, or the test is no longer available. So I guess the other person received the mail before I did.

It might be my demographic, but the only test I did, for free, was the entry test. I've been there for some weeks and I was able to open a test that wanted a question answered, and after doing so, it said that it didn't fit the profile they are looking for.

So, money earned, zero.

They work this way: There are a bunch of hungry dogs in a pit separated by fences. The bosses throw a steak and decide that the white dogs are the ones will better benefit from it, so they do so, and the bunch of white dogs fight for the steak. The one who gets it, gets fed, the rest of white dogs, black dogs and brown dogs will get nothing. Would you want to be there or move to a place where there are more steaks and the dogs are not in a pit? Your choice.

It might work for you, if you are student, or have children, or who knows what is the most popular demographic. Otherwise, you will be receiving emails that never lead to anything. 

I quit. 

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