Beta stage: Craft CMS giving 50% discounts during Beta.

It doesn’t say exactly how pricing works, but in my books a locked in early user price reduction is the way to go. Update: check out their licencing page. 

Beta period: Snapjoy let’s you know that you can use their full product for free during the beta. In case you were curious you can see a provisory pricing page. 

Onboarding/launch process: @onwander has put a 4 week onboarding process leading up to the beta launch. Try it, it’s smooth.

Via Kyle.

Launch process: Geekli.st makes people sign in with Twitter to reserve their usernames on the service. Below there’s a showcase (or list…) with people that already signed up. 

Feedback: Instant feedback form on the Stockperformer (@stockperformer) beta when you’re logged in. When you click to type it opens a wider window for a better experience.

Beta sign up: Vaultpress (@vaultpress) used good copy for their beta signup page rather than a simple web form. This way there is a lot of additional info processed for the beta providers as well as the user himself. 

Forkly (@forkly) started what became a popular way to get a lot of beta testers and buzz ahead of the product launch with their beta signup page (successfully adapted for Hipster and made into a product itself by launchrock).