Super awesome, love the vision, exciting to try something in this space, and agreed with your core observations and conclusions. My only criticism is that the interior / package needs to look way cooler to tempt people across. Working with a decent industrial design firm and making some sexy renders would go a long way!
Awesome! I see there's mentions of it on the website, but I don't see how to do it via the dashboard UI and there's not much in the docs about it. Wrote to support, would be nice to try this out.
And totally agreed, both products take a slightly different approach and have different strengths and weaknesses, try them both and see which is a better fit!
It was a design choice; for some actions it's possible - click being a great example - for others it's not e.g. hover; are you thinking, or actually hovering? ...waiting: are you thinking or trying to add a wait to the test?
So, we went the route of having the same way of doing things for everything. We may change this in the future, but at the moment it's consistent and easy to learn. You add an action, then run it - no need to do it twice, or learn multiple ways of doing things.
the other major difference is the design principles: our core belief is that everyone owns quality, and so we build for the 'no code' user as well. It's a really hard bar to hit, but I think we've done a good job so far - to use reflect you need to be far more technical. 1/3 of our daily users are PMs.
Engineering needs to own and focus on quality. It's construction that determines quality. It's construction that addresses defects. It's engineering that owns construction.
If engineers aren't owning and focused on quality the business either doesn't really believe there are quality issues or there is a huge alignment issue.
First off, we totally agree on this: "true product Quality is dependent upon an endemic cultural philosophy of an organization."
What we're asking you to consider is how much of that is because the tooling is shutting out the roles who are naturally incentivized to care about product quality?
I think your broader thesis, while amusing, is ignoring some of the biggest and most valuable brands ever created... Apple, Rolex, Mercedes...
> I think your broader thesis, while amusing, is ignoring some of the biggest and most valuable brands ever created... Apple, Rolex, Mercedes...
Hey, thanks for the condescension. I thought we didn't do things like that on HN, but I am often wrong.
I actually worked for one of them "biggest and most valuable brands" for a couple of decades, so there's a good chance that my "thesis" might have legs.
Look, I actually agree with a lot of what you wrote, but I wasn't deliberately calling your baby ugly, and don't really appreciate the reaction. I did not mean to attack you, and am actually sorry that my comment was perceived as such. If I could delete the first line of my comment, I would. It's accurate, but I can see it as being inflammatory.
[EDIT] I'll see if @dang, or someone, can delete it.
Thanks @dang. It's gone now. I 100% stand behind the remaining text. If y'all dig around in my HN handle (which might have been helpful before taking a swipe at me), you might be able to figure out which company I worked for, and why this actually gives my "thesis" some level of veracity.
