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

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.

4 points | by ovi_firstqa 1 day ago

10 comments

  • ativzzz 1 day ago
    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.

  • gary4gar 1 day ago
    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 1 day ago
      Even the customer does QA.
      • ChrisRun 18 hours ago
        And very soon no longer a customer
    • catfish-1234 23 hours ago
      The investors doing QA too
  • spacesh1psoda 1 day ago
    I guess usually using things like sentry or having a close conversation with customers.
  • pranshuchittora 1 day ago
    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.
  • chido1203 1 minute ago
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  • journal 11 hours ago
    QA should not be done by the same entity writing code.
  • sepehramirkiaee 3 hours ago
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  • Mohannad_labs 8 hours ago
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  • Rutvik_Pansare 15 hours ago
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  • plagiarismplus 23 hours ago
    Is there any AI Agent do it ?