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@rosiesherry - Congratulations for building up a good business along with what I assume a very hectic personal life (4 kids!). :-)

You've discontinued testing services, but I think there is a big market out there. We've been looking for a platform where we can list our website & its high level use cases, and then 1 or more testers can test it out thoroughly. We've tried sites like MyCrowd in the past, but didn't get a great result from them. Most testers just submitted cosmetic bugs and weren't as detail oriented as we'd like.

I'm sure there would be other startups who have similar needs for getting their sites/apps tested and can easily pay for such a service.

Are you (or anyone else here on HN) aware of any good testing services out there or a place where we can find good freelance testers?

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Co-founder of MyCrowd here. Sorry to hear you had a bad experience on our platform, but a lot has changed and improved in the 1.5 years since you ran a test. During that time, we launched MyCrowd Studio which is a self-service platform for explorative bug hunts as well as test cases run by the crowd.

Quality testing has been our #1 priority and we have made huge steps forward providing on-demand testing for our 450+ startup and enterprise customers.

Would welcome the opportunity to impress you at https://mycrowd.com

Thanks for responding here. Appreciate it.

Yeah, it's been a while since we used MyCrowd. Good to know it has improved a lot since then. Will check it out again.

@luckystrike - yeah, I felt sad to stop the testing services. I think we will go back to it once we have a bit more headspace (and/or money).

Testing is funny because there's not really the same kind of freelancers out there for testing as you get in the designer/programming/tech world. Most testers are either full time employed or work on full time contracts. There are freelancers, but there should be more.

Asfaik - there isn't a place to find good testing freelancers. We have a job board on our website, or sometimes I try to recommend people.

May be you can think about building a platform where clients can submit their gigs and testers can work on those short projects. You already have a community, and some of them might like to earn additional income but can't find such opportunities easily.

From a client's perspective, we are looking 'vetted' testers who are detail oriented and can be relied upon for a thorough job.

My email address is in the HN profile. Feel free to contact me in case you'd like to discuss this further.

Wish you a lot more success in the future!

Yes, thanks. Have thought about many of these things. Need to see if I can find the time/energy/resources to do some of them.

My guess is that the lack of part-time testers is because there is no clear deliverable. You pay for time spent testing, not for an outcome, so why settle for less than full time once you've vetted a good tester?

I've looked into pen testing but felt it was way too much work for little pay, unless you get lucky and are very talented (i.e. already do it full time). I've never considered general testing, which sounds right up my alley. I'll check out your sites. Thanks.

Have you tried rain forest's testing services? https://www.rainforestqa.com/

No. I'll check it out. Thanks for the suggestion.

Doesn't seem to have pricing publicly available. :(

Have you looked at agileasaservice.com? You can connect your repository via github or bitbucket and we'll be in touch to collect videos from you.

We then convert those videos into tests that are merged into your repository as a part of your CI process.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

>> Are you (or anyone else here on HN) aware of any good testing services out there or a place where we can find good freelance testers?

@luckystrike - a friend of mine runs 10g-force.com and they have a very thorough testing process.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out.

You may want to check https://99tests.com/ , it does exactly what you require and have been around for a long time. Do give it a look.

Thanks. Do you know someone who has used it? Are they good?

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