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Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious

4 points - yesterday at 3:33 PM


Been doing QA for 19yrs, mostly at startups and still trying to figure out how are AI startups navigating the quality aspect nowadays, practically. I'm also trying to productize my expertise and I see quite a lot of confusion among startups these days between: moving fast(whatever that means), quality, hitting PMF and/or growth.

  • ativzzz

    yesterday at 3:48 PM

    Everyone is QA at a startup. I hope y'all are using your own product regularly right? You should have a nice simple way to raise these issues, maybe a slack channel or something with a convenient way to turn a screenshot into an item in your todo/work system if you have one. Encourage product ownership.

    Alternatively, if you don't really care about the product, everyone is also customer support at a startup - you should be quickly be able to solve regressions that customers raise. I hope that at least you are talking to your customers and are very responsive to them at a startup.

      • ejhooooon

        today at 7:27 AM

        I second this.

    • gary4gar

      yesterday at 4:40 PM

      Everyone does QA at a startup. There is no dedicated QA. If you're a developer, you're doing QA. Product, whatever your job title is, you're doing QA.

        • mmarian

          yesterday at 5:11 PM

          Even the customer does QA.

            • ChrisRun

              today at 1:12 AM

              And very soon no longer a customer

          • catfish-1234

            yesterday at 8:57 PM

            The investors doing QA too

        • spacesh1psoda

          yesterday at 5:51 PM

          I guess usually using things like sentry or having a close conversation with customers.

          • pranshuchittora

            yesterday at 7:14 PM

            Use https://github.com/vostride/agent-qa you don't need a QA team just ask coding harness to write tests and you can review the test runs.

            • journal

              today at 8:48 AM

              QA should not be done by the same entity writing code.

              • chido1203

                today at 7:56 PM

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                • sepehramirkiaee

                  today at 4:06 PM

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                  • Mohannad_labs

                    today at 11:00 AM

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                    • Rutvik_Pansare

                      today at 4:30 AM

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                      • plagiarismplus

                        yesterday at 8:18 PM

                        Is there any AI Agent do it ?