Pattern testing management for knitting and crochet
Pattern testing management, without the chaos.
Alpacora gives designers one clear place for managing their test, without juggling DMs, email, spreadsheets, forms and scattered pattern files.
Less time piecing things together. More time with your testers.
What Alpacora is
One organised place for the whole test.
Alpacora is a dedicated place for designers and makers to run knitting and crochet pattern tests. Applications, tester details and sizes, pattern files and versions, progress, questions and feedback stay connected to the same test.
For designers
Less time piecing things together. More time with your testers.
Keep the people, pattern and progress in view without piecing the test together from messages, forms and files.
Choose with context.
Review applications and tester sizes together, then keep the selected group with the test.
Keep everyone in sync.
Share pattern versions, updates and milestones, and follow tester progress in one place.
Keep what you learn.
Questions, progress and feedback stay with each test, so you can return to completed projects later.
How a test runs
From first application to finished test.
Each step stays connected to the same pattern test, so designers and makers can see what is next.
Create the test.
Add the pattern details and set up the test.
Share it or invite makers.
Post the test where your audience is, or invite makers directly.
Review applications and organise testers.
Read maker responses, choose testers and keep their sizes with the test.
Add pattern files and updates.
Keep the current pattern version and its updates together for testers.
Set milestones and follow progress.
Give testers clear next steps and see how the test is moving along.
Bring questions and feedback together.
Keep tester updates, questions and milestone feedback with the test.
Complete the test.
Close the test with tester feedback in the project record, ready to carry into launch preparation.
Recruitment
Recruit testers, not engagement.
Instagram, Ravelry and other social spaces help tests reach makers, but they are not built to manage applications. Share your test wherever your audience already is, then collect applications in Alpacora with the details you need to choose a group.
Social platforms have left designers to improvise. In Alpacora, makers can apply directly without a like, follow, tag or story share being part of the application.
A calmer way to test
Less chasing. More making.
One test. One place. From application to launch.
For makers
A clearer test to take part in, too.
Apply directly, then find your assigned size, current pattern, updates and next steps in one place—instead of hunting through old messages and emails.
Apply with clarity.
Send an application in one place and share the details the designer asks for.
Know which pattern to use.
Find your assigned size and the latest pattern file together.
Follow the test and share feedback.
See milestones and updates, ask questions and give feedback as you work.