Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?
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Project Description: What do you want to be tested: Contact Info:
Project Description: What do you want to be tested: Contact Info:
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 172 ms ] threadProject description: Applicant tracking system for startups.
What I want to be tested: creating a job posting with AI.
What I would like to learn? 1. Confusing parts in the process.
2. First impression using steps to generate job descriptions.
3. Anything I can add in the onboarding to simplify it?
Contact details: oras [at] hireyay [dot] com
Thank you!
As for Google for jobs, many companies and recruiters do not know about it so I thought of explaining what is it and why it is important for organic reach.
Project Description: A product discovery app that features highly curated lists of products via guides and an endless tiktok-esque feed to discover new and exciting products. The idea came from my wife always having trouble finding me gifts for special occasions like birthdays and currently searching "gifts for men" always suggests shot glasses, knives, or beard kits, which are things I don't want haha.
What do you want to be tested: Live data is not in the app yet (there's about 50 test products for now), trying to nail the experience first since it's a PWA and testing on various devices is hard. If you sign up, your data will likely be deleted by morning time as we're not even alpha yet. Just really curious to see if it works well on a variety of real world devices and also validate if it's something people would use.
Contact Info: contact@ado.xyz (if you want to chat about the app, collab, etc.)
As for the listings i would only use this if the products would be more "interesting". atm i was ony presented with the most bland and popular techbro gadgets.
i get that this is bc it is still in early stages but the variety and uniqueness of suggestions would be key IMO.
Same here.
If someone wanted a list of gift ideas, I'd give them access to my Youtube feed. Pretty much anything related to what you find there would feel personal.
Project description: code editor
What do you want to be tested: general usability
Contact info: gus@gushogg-blake.com
Project Description: We’re building a tool to design and run user state machines (we call these ‘flows’). It’s comprised of a shared canvas for modeling and versioning user flows, SDKs for instantiating those flows per user, and a platform to persist user flow state that handles migrating users between versions on the fly.
The SDK gives you hooks to manage state for each node (we call these ‘blocks’) and Dopt handles any side effects, transitioning all dependent blocks for you. Reactivity is also built in: those side effects on the user state graph, along with any others (e.g. updates to user properties or API invocations) are propagated in real time to the SDK.
We started Dopt because we’ve seen teams struggle when trying to build experiences that are contextual to what a user/workspace has done (e.g. product onboarding and education flows). Doing so requires modeling user state graphs in the DB, migrating the schema/data across versions of the graph, tying in product state to state outside of the product, and lots of back and forth with product and design.
What do you want to be tested: We're looking for more folks building with Dopt during our private beta. We're giving the product away for free during this period and cutting discounts for folks that build with us now once we go GA.
Contact: info@dopt.com (or you can sign up for the beta on the website and reply letting us know you found us on Hacker News to skip the line)
So maybe having a great onboarding on your own website would be a good way of showing that your product is great.
We do have an interactive example gallery that we're building out for the reason you call out, would love any feedback you have on them: https://www.dopt.com/examples
What do you want to be tested:
We want to see
1. if developers are able to add our agent
2. Call APIs from postman and
3. Generate a unit test.
4. Run and see if the unit test ran as expected.
Contact Info:
founders [at] bug [.] video
Project Description: We are building a Natural Language based Framework for Intelligent Search & NLQ Analytics for your Software. GPT like - but not GPT based.
What do you want to be tested: What way of integration resonates best with companies. API only, with or without UI / UX components. We still have a bunch of open questions regarding that.
Contact Info: till+embedded@veezoo.com
Product description: We’re making the simplest tools to find churn, growth, and cash flow metrics for SaaS businesses. We connect to your Stripe and Quickbooks accounts to create a dashboard of useful insights without any configuration.
We need help making sure our math is right, and we’re offering the product for free in exchange for your feedback.
Contact: elliot@growtopline.com
If you’d prefer to join our waitlist, go ahead and add your email on growtopline.com
I am building a tool that lets you do all of the above from a single place. If you're an engineer or data scientist who has found himself/herself juggling multiple tools to get simple answers from data, you're my target audience. As a beta tester, you'll get a lifetime free subscription, and your feedback will help me shape the app.
You can reach me at my email (hi [at] shubhamjain.co). You can also fill the Subscribe form on the website and I'll reach out to you.
[1]: https://textquery.app/
Project Description: an email testing tool for devs and testers. Provides a “fake” SMTP server, a web app and an embedded web “widget” for seeing test emails inside the app you’re building.
To be tested: If I were to be specific, we’ve had a few people sign up but never actually try it out. I’d like feedback on the onboarding process/website to see how to make it easier to get going/understand it.
Contact: mark@imitate.email
Product description: I’m building a link-archiver application for iOS devices that lets you save links and organise them in folders, with tags and notes.
What needs to be tested: General app usability and UI/UX feedback.
Contact: matt95.righetti@gmail.com
The app is currently on TestFlight only and you can find the link on the website!
You can get the feed via https://console.dev/betas/rss.xml and the 4-5 most interesting go into a weekly newsletter at https://console.dev/latest/
Pre-built OAuth flows for 40+ APIs, no backend work needed. Also stores the OAuth tokens for you & automatically refreshes them.
To be tested: If you could test the flow for your favourite tool that would be amazing - sometimes things change in the provider's setups.
Contact: Join our Slack community at https://nango.dev/slack (or GitHub issues)
Gist editor and manager - a better UI for managing and editing GitHub gists.
Contact info: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/contactme.html
Project Description: This is an AI-powered programming tool that creates and updates simple web pages and applications based on natural language instructions.
Its applying ChatGPT-like models (e.g. text-davinci-003/code-davinci-002 from OpenAI) for programming with the admittedly ambitious goal of trying to help users who are technical but non-programmers.
It has preliminary knowledgebase support, templates, the ability to edit and resubmit list of commands to refine them, and hosting for web pages.
NOTE: I actually need at least another 3 days before I can get the new dialog-based version out, and then I will be looking for beta testers again. I already know that the current format is not something most users really can handle. The new version will issue the "metacommands" for the user.
When I finally get this release out, I will be looking to hear about bugs and also any and all feedback or advice on how it can be made more useful for specific projects. In particular I am hoping that at some point people who are into "no code" or "low code" will be able to use it for some things. So if anyone normally uses those types of tools it would be nice to hear some specific use case and what it would take to meet that or an attempt to apply the tool.
The next release after this one will be big for increasing the utility because I plan if possible to integrate with fly.io so people can use the AI to iteratively build and deploy web applications that have a back end. Although I might do subdomains first. Or maybe need to work on something more tedious like automatically detecting incomplete replies that need to be continued.
Contact: jason@aidev.codes or ideally just click the Discord link in the upper-right hand corner.
If you mean in the HN comment, I deliberately did not create an advertisement here but rather a technical request for beta testers since that is what this thread is about.
But in general that's great to have the reminder to make some marketing copy and put it on the website at some point. Right now just trying to make the basic concept actually work which is one of the hardest tasks that anyone on the planet has taken up with LLMs.
https://www.productchart.com
Project Description:
The idea is to replace lists with charts. Instead of sorting - say - monitors by price or size, on Product Chart you can sort them by both! And compare them on the resulting interactive scatterplot.
What do you want to be tested:
Imagine you were to buy a new Smartphone, Laptop, Tablet, Monitor, Camera, 3D Printer or Solid State Drive today. How would you go about it on Product Chart? Did you find a product that suits your requirements?
Contact Info: "hello" at the domain name.
Project description: a new UI for generative AI services. Image creation will be first, and should be launched this month. You can sign-up to be notified of the launch on the landing page.
Contact: jason.filby@gmail.com or via Twitter (see my HN profile).
an experiment bringing together Hugo and Internet Archive to provide a rock solid, lightweight and ethical solution to serve audio files.
The main objective is to share loads of audio files (hundreds of gigabytes are fine) without the hassle of Youtube / Dropbox / Soundcloud etc
Contact: https://audio.phoni.es/contact/
Project Description: This is a tool for engineering managers/vp/cto's etc. who want to get insight into their organizations development process. Goal is to identify the bottlenecks and help in improving dev peocess.
Testing Requirement: Need EM's to try the tool and provide feedback if the existing sets of metrics are useful to them and what additional metrics should be added to improve its utility for them.
Contact: contact AT gitimprove.com
Project Description: Exploring a new approach to emotional support with the AI Friend/Counselor Bot
Contact Info: "feedback" at the domain name.
Project Description: Goal-oriented task manager. Basically, tasks + dependencies with easy to use UI
What do you want to be tested: Usability
Contact Info: chris (at) plocs.com
Project description: Whenever I've applied for jobs, I found myself with a mess of emails and spreadsheets. It sort of worked, but also felt like it could have been better. The initial goal of Rolepad is helping job seekers manage their search process. Think an Applicant Tracking System but for the other side. You can also visualize your progress with a Sankey diagram and share it anonymously. Getting started is easy - account is created automatically with your first login.
How to test: use this as if you were looking for a job (bonus points if you are!) - would love to hear what you find useful, what's painful, what's missing. Try the diagram sharing functionality (maybe share the public link in a comment here!). Should be usable both from desktop and mobile.
Contact info: there is an in-app feedback page. If you really need email, you can find it on the homepage.
Love this idea BTW. I'd like to do a Show HN once v1 is ready, but happy to have folks get value from it already!
Project description: Chrome extension for easy workplace discovery of links, documents etc. Any feedback is welcome
Contact info: selaroweb[at]gmail.com
Project description:
I've been working on a Bootstrap 5 landing page builder for almost 1 year now (mostly just weekends though).
The main USP of this builder is it's targeted more for developers and people who know what Bootstrap 5 is than just another website builder. Apart from the drag-n-drop builder, It has many ways to create websites and landing pages including a step by step wizard that generates a landing page after you answer a few simple questions, a GPT3 a.i. filler, etc.
Testing info:
If anyone has 5 minutes to spare and want to play with it I would really appreciate your good honest feedback about the builder and everything. No signup or cc is needed for trying by the way.
Contact: support@domain or my personal email in profile.
Project Description: Team workflow software with the goal of becoming the #1 tool for getting shit done!
Example Use-cases:
- Visitor Management, e.g. replacement for Envoy (https://www.questmate.com/visitor-management)
- Async Team Standups (https://www.questmate.com/questmate-for-standups)
- Employee / Customer Onboarding
- Purchase Order / Approval Workflows
- Deployment checklists
You can pretty much use it for every recurring workflow you might have. From checkables, to form fields or fully automated steps.
What makes us different:
- Mobile-first, but equally awesome on desktop/web (thanks to RNW/Expo!)
- Extendable via custom scripts for powering custom Quest items, like dropdowns powered by data from Airtable, Google Sheets or giving control to your smart device (Philips Hue, Tesla, ..)
- Custom scripts to forward Quest data to Airtable, Google Sheets or really do anything else with the data
- Scheduling of Quests, Optional Approvals, List vs. Slidemode, Public Quests vs Assigned Quests, etc. etc.
P.S. Extendablity is powered by a service we productized for others to use as well to run 3rd party code fast & secure: https://www.scriptable.run
Contact: sascha@questmate.com / https://calendly.com/sascha-questmate/product-demo
Project Description: automation/monitoring for 3D printer farms.
I'm currently running a paid beta program for $149/year.
Contact Info:
Email leigh@printnanny.ai if you're interested in becoming a Founding Member (paid beta subscription). I'll send you a coupon code that rounds down to $99 USD.