[steerj92]

Good story, but I think you are forgetting that they are just after Beta users to test their product and find flaws and bugs. They will most likely finish Beta and then focus on growing their user-base with people who are likely to pay for their product.

Beta testers don't necessarily have to be the customers who are going to stay with you forever.

[AznHisoka]

but those are the worst beta testers. Because they'll give you useless feedback like "that color looks ugly", or "you need to make that font anti-aliased" rather than "I wish I could export this data to Excel so I can run calculations from it" or "I wish this could integrate with Mailchimp and generate email reports to show to my boss".