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Re: Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app

#21

You know “Ghostship” was the name of an incredible East Bay artists’ community that was destroyed in a fire which killed multiple people. Is this really the name you’re going with? It’s not ancient history, either - less than 10 years.

I know about ghostship, but I don’t immediately associate the word ghost ship with that disaster. I’ve always thought of them as the spooky abandoned ships that float around and I think it’s a good name.

Re: Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app

#22

You know “Ghostship” was the name of an incredible East Bay artists’ community that was destroyed in a fire which killed multiple people. Is this really the name you’re going with? It’s not ancient history, either - less than 10 years.

I immediately thought of the Oakland loft disaster in relation to this startup name -- but I'll admit I've been and on-and-off again loft occupant (not the ghostship loft, but other lofts) and East Bay/SF resident so that's probably skewing my view of this naming choice.

Re: Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app

#24

UI tests, and any automated tests in general, must be reproducible and deterministic to be useful. Do you position this product as an automated test tool, or useful “chaos monkey”? Also a nitpick, but there are profanities on your landing page and it kinda puts me off.

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Re: Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app

#25

UI tests, and any automated tests in general, must be reproducible and deterministic to be useful. Do you position this product as an automated test tool, or useful “chaos monkey”? Also a nitpick, but there are profanities on your landing page and it kinda puts me off.

Genuinely curious, why does profanity put you off a product?

Re: Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app

#26
post #25

UI tests, and any automated tests in general, must be reproducible and deterministic to be useful. Do you position this product as an automated test tool, or useful “chaos monkey”? Also a nitpick, but there are profanities on your landing page and it kinda puts me off.

Genuinely curious, why does profanity put you off a product?

That’s not the type of language I usually speak in professional context

Re: Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app

#29
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never heard of them. I have heard of the shitty 2002 film by that name. I don’t know why someone would be expected to be aware of a niche, local, artist community or their history

I haven't lived in the Bay Area ever, although I had plans to move there at the time (plans which were sidelined because I didn't get the H1B then), but the fire was pretty big news even halfway across the world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ship_warehouse_fire It wasn't the community that sparked attention, but the shoddy living conditions and that people had to resort to living in a warehouse in the Bay Ar…

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