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HN Office Hours with Jared Friedman and Trevor Blackwell

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Hey Jared and Trevor, BugReplay ( http://www.bugreplay.com ) is a bug reporting tool in the form of a browser extension that captures a screencast of the user’s actions synced with network traffic, javascript errors and other browser data. What's the best way to grow your early user base? Ideally we'd like people who are going to use BugReplay at their jobs and open source endeavors, but we want to keep it relatively…

Have you looked a company like rainforest qa or any of the other crowdsourced testing companies? Your tool seems like an excellent fit to have their users use so bug submissions are better for developers. That's the "easier" play, but with your tool/tech you might be in a good position to create your own crowdsourced QA company. I'm not sure how the economics look for the other crowdsourced qa companies, but I know f…

Thank you for the feedback. We have looked at Rainforest QA and could definitely see how our tool would work for them. I only know of a few crowdsourced testing companies but we should focus on researching that more. Your other idea of becoming a crowdsourced testing company is definitely interesting and one we never thought of. Our immediate goal is to get people using it regularly and we’ll take it from there. Thanks again!

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Hi Trevor and Jared, http://weavesilk.com is a side project of mine for many years. I put out a brand new version of the iOS app this month and am thinking about developing it further but find it very hard to decide what direction to go. The website is popular, and people love Silk, but for different reasons: some find it relaxing and meditative, others like that it closes the gap between their artistic ability and t…

Instant fun. You have something here.
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