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Generally when you're requesting help from people it's good to show off some previous work.
If you've got something fancy and interesting people are more likely to help than when you don't have any skills you can show. So I would try and show some of your work, before requesting people to help.
Playtesters are generally less hard to get by, but if you need proper advice and good hammer knowledge help showing your skills first might be useful too. For example, as long as you're not using scripts I could probably help, if you are using them all over the place you better ask someone else. It really depends on what you need who can help.
Subscribers to your youtube channel are generally generated by creating interesting content. And to advertise it you can always put a link to your youtube channel into your signature 
As for boss battles; it really depends on what you are planning to do. If you do stuff that's similar to what's done before ask the authors how they did it. If you want to try something completely new, try and try until you get it to work the way you want it. For example; the boss battle in Aperture Valentine started off as a simple concept, and it took me 91 iterations to get it to work the way it does right now.
Asking for a tutorial on a boss battle is about the same as asking for a tutorial how to make good puzzles. There are some things that might really help, but at the end of the day you'll have to make your boss the way you want it to be.