<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: franciscassel</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=franciscassel</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:57:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=franciscassel" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New research: AI struggles to handle open-source test maintenance challenges]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/ai-vs-open-source-test-maintenance">https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/ai-vs-open-source-test-maintenance</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175963">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175963</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:28:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/ai-vs-open-source-test-maintenance</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175963</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "Surprise, your data warehouse can RAG"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Taken from the same blog:<p>"Roughly, RAG is runtime prompt engineering where you build a system to dynamically add relevant things to your prompt before you ask the agent for an answer."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:03:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978270</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978270</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprise, your data warehouse can RAG]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/your-data-warehouse-can-rag/#">https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/your-data-warehouse-can-rag/#</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40812709">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40812709</a></p>
<p>Points: 6</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:10:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/your-data-warehouse-can-rag/#</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40812709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40812709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you considered a land-and-expand rollout, where you focus on getting an active community going in one or two cities before you expand? Otherwise, folks from underserved cities (which will be most of them) will be disappointed when they try to find interesting meetups near them using your site. Just a thought!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:43:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40731739</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40731739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40731739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "Rainforest QA CEO: What happened when we killed freemium"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spoilers:<p>"But the impact has actually been fantastic. Some highlights:
- ~$1m of sales pipeline generated in 3 weeks, ~$100k already closed
- ~10% of the free customers converted to paid
- ~50% of the paying customers converted to the new pricing model"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:49:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38085704</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38085704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38085704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rainforest QA CEO: What happened when we killed freemium]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://twitter.com/fredsters_s/status/1719140833931485432">https://twitter.com/fredsters_s/status/1719140833931485432</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38085624">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38085624</a></p>
<p>Points: 11</p>
<p># Comments: 3</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:43:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://twitter.com/fredsters_s/status/1719140833931485432</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38085624</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38085624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "Think twice before hiring QA for your startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Following the logic in the article: it's not actually a good outcome for the business when "Your QA people are the only ones charged with being an organizational conscience on the behalf of your users." To your earlier point, quality is something the entire team has to commit to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:06:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069720</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069720</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "Think twice before hiring QA for your startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For sure. For me, the best (worst) sign of 'not proactive enough' re: quality is too many embarrassments and/or hotfixes happening.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:13:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34068867</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34068867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34068867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think twice before hiring QA for your startup]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/hiring-qa">https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/hiring-qa</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34068691">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34068691</a></p>
<p>Points: 20</p>
<p># Comments: 9</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:01:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/hiring-qa</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34068691</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34068691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "Launch HN: Rainforest QA (YC S12) – No-Code UI Test Automation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my experience, many orgs that work with Selenium and its derivatives have described that (coded) approach as flaky / brittle (i.e., fragile).<p>Of course, until automation gets to be as clever of humans, <i>any</i> test automation approach is going to have some flavor of brittleness.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 21:25:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28951003</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28951003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28951003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should own QA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Totally agree that automation will never fully replace the value of human-powered testing. (Though it is great for the rote regression-testing stuff. The "drudgery", as you put it.)<p>Isn't the problem with relying too much on unit and integration tests that they don't consider the end-to-end app experience? (Which, in my mind, is what ultimately matters when customers think of "quality".)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 22:27:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27694206</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27694206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27694206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should own QA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, the good ones really care about the product experience and customer outcomes, so this makes a lot of sense to me.<p>But what do you mean?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 22:11:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27694038</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27694038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27694038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should own QA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I was a PM, I was lucky to have a big, talented QA team, but I <i>still</i> knew I'd have to do a "smoke test" myself after every major feature release. I cared the most, and I knew the most about the intricacies of the product.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 22:00:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693896</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should own QA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been on teams where the "siloed" QA model seemed to work pretty well -- we seemed to find a decent balance between test coverage and frequency of releases.<p>But this was at a cash-rich startup that had lots of money to spend on making sure we had plenty of QA headcount. That seems to be the exception, rather than the rule. Lots of startups I talk to are quite constrained in terms of dedicated QA, so the argument for empowering product managers to own quality does make some sense to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:53:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693821</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "Azlo Is Closing Down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Alternatives I've seen mentioned on Twitter threads today:
<a href="https://mercury.com/" rel="nofollow">https://mercury.com/</a>
<a href="https://www.brex.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.brex.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2021 20:27:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25676941</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25676941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25676941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "Azlo Bank (used by Stripe Atlas) is shutting down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Promising alternatives I've seen mentioned on Twitter:<p><a href="https://www.brex.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.brex.com/</a>
<a href="https://mercury.com/" rel="nofollow">https://mercury.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2021 20:25:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25676901</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25676901</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25676901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "The SaaS website content you need to close sales"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The most useful insights come from the user reviews shared to those sites.<p>You just have to remember that they're just like any other online review: you mostly hear from the very happy or very unhappy customers OR the ones that got asked by the company to leave a review (perhaps in return for an incentive).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633772</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633772</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "The SaaS website content you need to close sales"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very kind!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:42:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633370</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633370</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "The SaaS website content you need to close sales"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you! Glad it was compelling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:50:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24632812</link><dc:creator>franciscassel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24632812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24632812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by franciscassel in "The SaaS website content you need to close sales"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Excellent compliment, thank you.</p>
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