Tester guide

You are the reason ADapptive works. Developers ship faster because real people look at their product, say what is wrong, propose what would be better, and vote. This guide gets you from "never heard of it" to your first counted contribution in about ten minutes.

How it works

1. A developer runs a campaign on their site and marks regions of the page as feedback zones.
2. You open the site with the ADapptive extension (or the site has the widget built in) and see small coloured dots on those regions. Hover to see what the developer wants to know; click to contribute.
3. Your feedback is screened for personal data and unsafe content, then other testers vote on it.
4. When enough trusted people agree, the developer's coding agent implements the change. You are notified when it ships and asked to confirm it worked.
5. Your reputation grows with every cleared and confirmed contribution. Campaigns with a budget convert confirmed contributions into rewards.

Join

You can be invited by a developer or join the community directly.

• Invited: open the invite link, sign in (accounts are handled by our identity provider — you can create one there), accept. You now belong to that developer's trusted pool at the tier they set.
• Community (House Pool): on https://app.adapptive.space/tester, choose Apply to the House Pool. Tell us how you test (devices, browsers, languages) and what you enjoy. New members start as Newcomer: you can contribute right away; your votes gain weight after your first cleared contributions and a short account age. Operators review applications and promote reliable testers.

Install the extension

1. Chrome Web Store listing (when published) or the beta zip from https://app.adapptive.space/download → load unpacked at chrome://extensions.
2. Open the ADapptive side panel, choose Tester, sign in.
3. On a campaign site, the panel asks once for permission to run on that origin. Nothing runs anywhere you have not approved.

The extension stores only your sign-in session; it never has access to developer keys.

Find work

Your Tester Hub (/tester) shows:

• Discover — campaigns you are invited to and public campaigns your tier qualifies for. Open and test takes you to the product with the extension armed for that site.
• My contributions — everything you submitted and voted on, with live status (collecting votes → ready → in progress → shipped).
• Reputation — your tier, badges, and what unlocks next.
• Rewards — your ledger per workspace, and payouts once a campaign funds them.
• Leaderboard — opt-in.

Contribute well

Good feedback is specific, reproducible, and about the product. Please do not include personal data (yours or anyone else's); the platform redacts common patterns, but keep it out in the first place. Instructions aimed at software ("run this", "add this to the code") are flagged for human review and do not count until a person clears them.

Reputation, tiers, rewards

• Points accrue when your feedback is accepted and when it is deployed; confirming a deployed fix credits both you and the original author.
• Tiers (per workspace, and in the House Pool) carry vote weight and permissions; they are set by the developer or by operators and are enforced server-side.
• Badges are derived from your record (first deploy, ten cleared items, consistent weekly participation, and so on).
• Rewards are points until a campaign has a budget. Funded campaigns convert confirmed contributions into credits and, for eligible tiers, payouts. See the x402 economy for eligibility and timing.

Privacy

We store your email, display name, the feedback you write, your votes, and a salted hash of your IP for abuse prevention. Screenshots you attach are private to the workspace. Developers see your display name on your contributions in their workspace, never your email unless you accept an invite to their pool. Full policy: https://app.adapptive.space/privacy.

Getting help

https://app.adapptive.space/contact — or the Help link in the side panel.