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New comment by Escafati in "If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true"

Escafati — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:14:20 +0000

One assumption that's also changed: small teams no longer need dedicated QA. Tools like Autonoma (open source, getautonoma.com) use AI agents to generate and run E2E tests in real browsers, and tests self-maintain as your app evolves. One of the things making the solo-founder path more viable.

What do you use as preview environment?

Escafati — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:49:52 +0000

im speaking with a lot of startups while building Autonoma (https://www.getautonoma.com) and im seeing that preview environments are a main issue most of them face, unless they deploy on Vercel/Netlify/Render.

wondering what alternatives have people found to sort this out.

preview envs seem to provide a huge upside for testing and overall engineering workflows but are not easy to configure so we are considering building a standardize way to do this. would love to get people thoughts on the topic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634787

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New comment by Escafati in "[dead]"

Escafati — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:42:49 +0000

i just realized that non-engineering roles for a company that has a product-led go to market are just a tax for getting things done. is literally easier to either (1) automate their work with an agent or (2) buy a saas to do it. without having to go through the burden of (1) hiring them, (2) motivating them, (3) explaining them what to do, (4) doing follow ups... i rather spend 2x in an agent and ensure things are getting done in time than spending that on an employee tbh.

New comment by Escafati in "Show HN: New open source AI self driving testing"

Escafati — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:46:25 +0000

done, thank you

New comment by Escafati in "New open source AI self driving testing"

Escafati — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:14:49 +0000

hey, we are working on an open source self driving testing

Why "self-driving"? Because Autonoma handles everything required to build and maintain a testing platform, end to end:

- Test user generation and management: automatically adapting as your database schema evolves.

- Test plan generation, editing, deprecation, and execution: scaling with your codebase as it grows.

- Test preview environments: provisioned as your infrastructure develops.

- Test infrastructure to run tests in parallel: scalable Web browsers, Android emulators and iOS simulators.

We just deployed our alpha, will be deploying more soon.

Show HN: New open source AI self driving testing

Escafati — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:14:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/autonoma-ai/autonoma

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616411

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New comment by Escafati in "I will pay you if you ship a bug"

Escafati — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:10:50 +0000

forgot to say, we will integrate this workflow in their CICDs, of course

New comment by Escafati in "I will pay you if you ship a bug"

Escafati — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:10:09 +0000

we are onboarding startups to harden their web or mobile deployment with an agentic workflow that will automate the review and testing of all their user flows by actually using the app.

we are charging USD 500 / month, cancel any time and we will refund you if after 30 days a functional bug reaches production.

we will be doing this only on March.

want to join?

I will pay you if you ship a bug

Escafati — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:10:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.getautonoma.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317568

Points: 1

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Best way to give feedback to Claude

Escafati — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:26:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.getautonoma.com/contact

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070551

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New comment by Escafati in "Feedback for Software Testing Course"

Escafati — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:06:39 +0000

Id love to get feedback on this reading course im building. Understand what guide is missing, what is not useful, etc... to actually build a great course.

As a tldr, this is a series of 8 chapters where we dive from the most basic testing concepts and terminology up to a deep dive comparison on different coding automation frameworks with real code examples for users to follow. Wrapping up with how AI is changing this industry as a whole.

Chapter 1: Software Testing Basics Chapter 2: The Language of Testing Chapter 3: Test Planning and Organization Chapter 4: Test Automation Frameworks Guide Chapter 5: Page Object Model & Test Architecture Chapter 6: How to Reduce Test Flakiness Chapter 7: Test Automation with Python and JavaScript Chapter 8: AI-Powered Software Testing with Autonoma

Feedback for Software Testing Course

Escafati — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:06:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.getautonoma.com/blog/software-testing-basics-introduction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219417

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