Comment by Jach

From the user perspective, being an early adopter of something that isn't really worth anything now can have external value of increasing the likelihood that you can drive the product direction towards something that will be very useful to you in the future (and without having to pay upfront costs of hiring a contractor and figuring out exactly what you want now). Especially if you're paying, people tend to listen to paying customers' feedback a lot more than web randos.