<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: tomatohs</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomatohs</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:29:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tomatohs" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TestDriver.ai | <a href="https://testdriver.ai" rel="nofollow">https://testdriver.ai</a> | QA, Engineers, Customer Support | Austin / Remote | Full-time / Part Time
95% of companies are still wasting time manually testing due to shortcomings in Playwright, Cypress, and other frameworks. Developers rank testing as the #1 blocker to release.
We've built an AI Agent that performs manual testing on it's own VM with complete desktop access. It works like a specialized "Claude Computer Use."<p>We're scaling our early sales and seeking QA engineers, customer support, and sales engineers.<p>Please DM ian [at] testdriver [dot] ai</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:45:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440703</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Computer-use agent for testing: <a href="https://testdriver.ai" rel="nofollow">https://testdriver.ai</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:15:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418852</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I started a company to do exactly this a few years ago, and got to work with amazing companies testing their developer experience.<p>The problem is not the docs, it's Conway's law. One team designs the API, the other team designs the portal, and another team designs the SDK. The user has a holistic experience that cuts through each team.<p>That, and the docs are usually written first by the most technical person around, who has a hard time sharing the world view of a noob.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:20:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45335626</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45335626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45335626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "You don't want to hire "the best engineers""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not 2010 anymore. Most startups can't even attract "the best engineers" much less hire them.<p>This is the late game, why would an engineer work for a fraction of a percent of equity and a below market salary when they can take a job at FANG?<p>You've got to be offering something really, really valuable like remote work, an interesting problem, and/or a new experience. Otherwise the math doesn't math.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:25:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104304</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TestDriver.ai | <a href="https://testdriver.ai" rel="nofollow">https://testdriver.ai</a> | QA, Engineers, Customer Support | Austin / Remote | Full-time / Part Time
95% of companies are still wasting time manually testing due to shortcomings in Playwright, Cypress, and other frameworks. Developers rank testing as the #1 blocker to release.<p>We've built an AI Agent that performs manual testing on it's own VM with complete desktop access. It works like a specialized "Claude Computer Use."<p>We're scaling our early sales and seeking QA engineers, customer support, and sales engineers.<p>Please DM ian [at] testdriver [dot] ai</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:45:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161280</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Computer-Use Agent for QA Testing <a href="https://testdriver.ai" rel="nofollow">https://testdriver.ai</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:18:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43824357</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43824357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43824357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Show HN: Magnitude – open-source, AI-native test framework for web apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is exactly our workflow, though we defined our own YAML spec [1] for reasons mentioned in previous comments.<p>We have multiple fallbacks to prevent flakes; The "cheap" command, a description of the intended step, and the original prompt.<p>If any step fails, we fall back to the next source.<p>1. <a href="https://docs.testdriver.ai/reference/test-steps" rel="nofollow">https://docs.testdriver.ai/reference/test-steps</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:44:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799896</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Launch HN: Cua (YC X25) – Open-Source Docker Container for Computer-Use Agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would love to use this for TestDriver, but needs to support Windows :*(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:48:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774031</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TestDriver.ai | <a href="https://testdriver.ai" rel="nofollow">https://testdriver.ai</a> | QA, Engineers, Customer Support | Austin / Remote | Full-time / Part Time<p>95% of companies are still wasting time manually testing due to shortcomings in Playwright, Cypress, and other frameworks. Developers rank testing as the #1 blocker to release.<p>We've built an AI Agent that performs manual testing on it's own VM with complete desktop access. It works like a specialized "Claude Computer Use."<p>We're scaling our early sales and seeking QA engineers, customer support, and sales engineers.<p>Please DM ian [at] testdriver [dot] ai</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:39:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245160</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "No Calls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with you IRT scale but not speed.<p>Copy and demo videos are essentially one way communication channels ("fire and forget"). The creator has no idea if the message was understood.<p>Also, writing copy or making a video typically takes 10 - 100x longer than consuming the same video.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:23:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42731075</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42731075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42731075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "No Calls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A friend described calls as "high bandwidth information transfer."<p>An average typing speed is 40wpm but an average conversation is between 120 - 150 wpm so about 3 - 4x bandwidth.<p>Calls also offer sub second latency and maximum priority.<p>When you add video and audio in there, the pure amount of data transferred is higher.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:51:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730023</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool! Before building a full test platform for testdriver.ai we made a similar sdk called Goodlooks. It didn't get much traction, but will leave it here for those interested:
<a href="https://github.com/testdriverai/goodlooks">https://github.com/testdriverai/goodlooks</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:54:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42650183</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42650183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42650183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TestDriver.ai | <a href="https://testdriver.ai" rel="nofollow">https://testdriver.ai</a> | QA Engineers, Sales | Austin / Remote | Full-time / Part Time<p>95% of companies are still wasting time manually testing due to shortcomings in Playwright, Cypress, and other frameworks. Developers rank testing as the #1 blocker to release.<p>We've built an AI Agent that performs manual testing on it's own VM with complete desktop access. It works like a specialized "Claude Computer Use."<p>We're scaling our early sales and seeking QA engineers, customer support, and sales engineers.<p>Please DM ian [at] testdriver [dot] ai</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:24:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577785</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577785</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: GitHub bot that plays with your app on a VM]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/testdriverai/playground">https://github.com/testdriverai/playground</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392209">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392209</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:03:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/testdriverai/playground</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "OmniParser for Pure Vision Based GUI Agent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>our agent is available via NPM:
<a href="http://testdriver.ai" rel="nofollow">http://testdriver.ai</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 12:32:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41954365</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41954365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41954365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Claude Computer Use – Is Vision the Ultimate API?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It is very helpful to give it things like:<p>- A list of applications that are open
- Which application has active focus
- What is focused inside the application
- Function calls to specifically navigate those applications, as many as possible<p>We’ve found the same thing while building the client for testdriver.ai. This info is in every request.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/testdriverai/testdriverai">https://github.com/testdriverai/testdriverai</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927314">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927314</a></p>
<p>Points: 9</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:31:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/testdriverai/testdriverai</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927314</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Launch HN: GPT Driver (YC S21) – End-to-end app testing in natural language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> unshakable foundations in reality<p>Yes, you are correct that it entirely lays in the reputation of the AI.<p>This discussion leads to interesting question, which is "what is quality?<i>"<p>Quality is determined by perception. If we can agree that an AI is acting like a user and it can use your website, we can assume that a user can use your website and therefor it is "quality".<p></i>For more, read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:11:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927111</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927111</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Launch HN: GPT Driver (YC S21) – End-to-end app testing in natural language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This comes up all the time. It seems like it would be possible, but imagine the case where you want to verify that a menu shows on hover. Was the hover on the menu intentional?<p>Another example, imagine an error box shows up. Was that correct or incorrect?<p>So you need to build a "meta" layer, which includes UI, to start marking up the video and end up in the same state.<p>Our approach has been to let the AI explore the app and come up with ideas. Less interaction from the user.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:01:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926997</link><dc:creator>tomatohs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomatohs in "Launch HN: GPT Driver (YC S21) – End-to-end app testing in natural language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We do AI E2E desktop, sent you an email.</p>
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