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Comment by lwhalen | Hacker News Reader

Outsourced testing. I can think of a few sites that would pay a pretty penny to have unit, spec, and acceptance-tests written for their pre-existing code.

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See https://www.rainforestqa.com/, a YC company. They do some of this.

Was definitely interested, clicked through a bunch and wanted to see pricing and sign up. Unfortunately it's a "contact us for more info" situation, which is really a non-starter as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks for the recommendation though.

It's not that big problem for you then.

The opaque pricing is a sign that they've moved up the market to target enterprise. When a company reaches that stage, it's basically telling you, "if this turns you off, then you won't move the needle for us so we don't want to talk to you."

> "if this turns you off, then you won't move the needle for us so we don't want to talk to you."

Yes. Like Amazon and Google, with their contact us for pricing.

Realistically speaking, it's unlikely that something which provides as much value as essentially replacing QA would be priced transparently.

What is the tech stack they use?

From their jobs page[0]:

* Ruby

* Rails

* Grape

* Go

* Redis

* Postgres

* QueueClassic

* GraphQL

* React with redux

* KVM

* Puppet

* Heroku

* AWS

0: https://www.rainforestqa.com/jobs/

Rainforest uses human testers, a specialized Amazon Turk. You write a test plan in English that is followed. They can also explore your app and write that test plan in English for you.

I'd love to know of a service that will write the test plans in Selenium or Ghost Inspector etc.

Incidentally, that's something that I want to offer when expanding my freelance business into QA agency. Would you mind telling me more about what types of services would you see here? I have some ideas of my own, but I'm still struggling with market validation, so input from someone who says they could need it is invaluable!

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