UX research participant management platform
Built for Solo UX researchers and small research teams at product companies managing large opted-in participant pools (100s-1000s of users)..
“The question: What operational systems, methods, softwares, workflows, or personal processes exist for ux researchers to manage, schedule, and compensate their …”
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“The question: What operational systems, methods, softwares, workflows, or personal processes exist for ux researchers to manage, schedule, and compensate their research participants? Why I ask: I have 2,000 current users of our app who have opted-in to further research. Keeping them in an excel sheet somewhere is going to become a pain. As a team-of-one researcher, spending the least time possible on participant mana…”
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Why this is a gap
Surfaced from a high-intensity complaint with clear willingness to pay and a specific, reachable audience.
The market
Solo and small-team UX researchers managing participant pools of hundreds to thousands. No search volume data available, so demand signal is weak — this appears niche and may not sustain a standalone product.
Competition & the opening
Userlytics, Respondent, and UserTesting dominate participant recruitment and scheduling. The gap: none of these solve ongoing management of researcher-owned pools (tracking availability, compensation history, communication). But this gap may be too narrow to support a business.
What's hard to build
Building scheduling that integrates with calendars, payment systems (Stripe, PayPal), and researcher workflows requires multiple third-party connections. The real blocker: validating whether researchers actually have large enough pools and pain acute enough to pay for this separately from their existing research tools.
Why now
UX research is scaling but researcher ops tools are generic; no dedicated participant recruitment, scheduling, and compensation platform exists.
How you'd monetize
$299-999/mo SaaS + per-participant payout fees