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Rainforest QA
Company blog · rainforestqa.com/blogprogramming
Rainforest QA is the company blog at rainforestqa.com, writing about programming. Since 2013, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 85 times, most often “How We Moved from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Rainforest QA's site covers automated and crowd-tested QA for web and mobile apps, plus its blog posts on zero-downtime migrations and dogfooding testing. HN commenters mostly mention it as a product or hiring page.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter said a Rainforest CEO blog post really resonated with them on why the testing status quo is broken, citing misaligned incentives.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2013-02-28
- /jobs/7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2014-04-25
- /2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-03-17
- /about2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-01
- /careers/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-01
- How We Moved from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-10
- /blog/2014-06-27-zero-downtime-database-migrations/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-03
- Moving from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-02
- Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should own QA2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-30
What Hacker News says?
You could also do most of this (except adding the screenshot to a folder, but you can get it via api if you need) and more with our free plan - https://www.rainforestqa.com/
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on “Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website”Submitted Building reliable systems out of unreliable agents as a story · 295 points
HN discussionFrom 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/
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on “Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?”Submitted Moving from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine as a story · 225 points
HN discussionSee https://www.rainforestqa.com/ , a YC company. They do some of this.
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on “Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?”Submitted Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should own QA as a story · 192 points
HN discussionThis is harder than you might expect because it's hard to tell whether a passing test is a false positive (i.e. the test passed, but it should have failed). It's also hard to convey to the testing system what is an acceptable level of change in the UI - what the testing system thinks is ok, you might consider broken. There are quite a few companies out there trying to solve this problem, including my previous employ…
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on “Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model”Submitted Surprise, your data warehouse can RAG as a story · 34 points
HN discussionRainforest | San Francisco (HQ) and Remote | Onsite or Remote | https://www.rainforestqa.com Rainforest combines a massive crowd of human testers with algorithmic management and VMs to execute web and mobile regression testing for continuous deployment. The best dev teams from companies like Intuit, Consumer Affairs, Oracle, and IBM use Rainforest’s platform and API to execute and scale their QA activities more effe…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted How Bad QA Killed 2.2M Imperials: A Death Star Post-Mortem as a story · 26 points
HN discussionRainforest | San Francisco (HQ) and Remote | Onsite or Remote | https://www.rainforestqa.com Rainforest combines a massive crowd of human testers with algorithmic management and VMs to execute web and mobile regression testing for continuous deployment. The best dev teams from companies like Intuit, Consumer Affairs, Oracle, and IBM use Rainforest’s platform and API to execute and scale their QA activities more effe…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted Surprise, your data warehouse can RAG as a story · 18 points
HN discussionRainforest QA - https://www.rainforestqa.com | Mobile engineeer, backend engineer, Sales engineer, ... | Remote or ONSITE (San Francisco) Rainforest QA is modern testing for web and mobile apps. The Rainforest platform delivers all the resources needed to do fast, efficient QA. Rainforest combines a massive crowd of human testers with algorithmic management and virtual machines to execute web and mobile regression t…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Submitted Think twice before hiring QA for your startup as a story · 11 points
HN discussionRainforest | San Francisco (HQ) and Remote | Onsite or Remote | https://www.rainforestqa.com Rainforest combines a massive crowd of human testers with algorithmic management and VMs to execute web and mobile regression testing for continuous deployment. The best dev teams from companies like Intuit, Consumer Affairs, Oracle, and IBM use Rainforest’s platform and API to execute and scale their QA activities more effe…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Implementing continuous delivery at Rainforest QA as a story · 11 points
HN discussionRainforest QA | INTERATIONAL / US REMOTE | anywhere / SF | full-time | https://www.rainforestqa.com/jobs Rainforest provides QA-as-a-service to customers from startups through to large Enterprises. QA for continuous delivery. We're YC S12 and growing fast and always working on interesting things; from ops-y type things (kvm / proxies / etc) through to javascript (react) / design / iOS SDKs / etc. We're hiring a bunc…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted How We Moved from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine as a story · 8 points
HN discussionRainforest QA (YC S12) | Devops, Front end engineer, Senior data scientist (generalist) | SF / Singapore / US/International Remote Well run distributed team of great folks. We're fixing QA, which turns out has a lot of things to fix. It's super interesting and varied. We're mostly using Ruby, Go, Elixir, Crystal, React, Postgres...things are well tested. Also hiring various other roles; csm, marketing, product. More…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Surprise, your data warehouse can RAG as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRainforest QA (YC S12) | San Francisco (HQ) and Remote | Onsite or Remote | https://www.rainforestqa.com The way we build software has changed; the way we do QA hasn’t. Rainforest is helping companies rethink QA and bring it into the era of continuous delivery. Our focus is solely QA, and we have spent the last six years helping hundreds of companies hit their business goals through a smart QA strategy. To learn mor…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted How We Use VMs for QA Testing as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRainforestQA (YC12) | Data Scientists and Software Engineers | San Francisco + the world | REMOTE | Full-Time We're hiring Data Scientists and Software Engineers, among other roles, to change the way software companies do Quality Assurance. https://www.rainforestqa.com/jobs/ We have plenty of interesting technical challenges and we care a lot about cultivating a good company culture (you can see our CEO talk about i…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted How the Current Political Climate Reminds Us What We Stand For as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSan Francisco / Remote (US / International): Rainforest QA (YC S12) is hiring for most roles; developers backend (rails / go / elixir), frontend (react), data science, also sales (AE/SDRs), plus marketing. Fast and simple QA, Rainforest automates your functional and integration testing with our QA-as-a-Service API. Human testing at the speed of automation. Learn more: https://www.rainforestqa.com/jobs/ Russ The comp…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”Submitted Using machine learning to find sloppy crowdsourced testing work [video] as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRainforest QA (YC S12) - San Francisco or REMOTE (most of our dev team is remote) We are looking for: - Front-end engineers - Full-stack engineers - Devops - Data Nerd - Sales (SDR) - Sales (AE) Rainforest is a better way to do testing. We're building Rainforest to let everyone focus on the important things and spend less time thinking about QA. Get full QA for your product in ~ 30 minutes in general. Our stack: - R…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)”Submitted How to write better QA tests for faster, more reliable manual QA as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSorry to hear this news. We have a position for a Senior Software Developer at Rainforest QA. We're looking for several years with Postgres (or other SQL experience) and Ruby-on-Rails (or similar technology). We're a distributed team so you can be based in the Bay Area or anywhere in the world. More here https://www.rainforestqa.com/jobs/ or reach out directly. Best of luck to you all.
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on “SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices”Submitted How to do big refactors without losing your sanity as a story · 6 points
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