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.
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.
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 ?