Building a $30k/Month User Testing Service – Askable Co-Founder Interview(launchbasket.com)
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Building a $30k/Month User Testing Service – Askable Co-Founder Interview
https://launchbasket.com/building-a-30000-month-user-testing-platform-an-interview-with-askable-co-founder-andreas-zhou/
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There are a few better known competitors in this space. I definitely want to see & learn more from Askable. Very cool.
As a sidenote, I'm absolutely amazed by the lack of HTML links in the article. Even the company website and the Medium page need to be copy pasted.
Anyone knows why nobody is using "AI" to test those websites.
I suppose a few heuristics and some sort of recognition of state machines would suffice to be able to test 80% of all sites.
I suppose a few heuristics and some sort of recognition of state machines would suffice to be able to test 80% of all sites.
Since they are doing user testing, what would be the value of AI? Unless AI is the target audience of your service, you'd gain very little insight.
Well, I'm assuming of course that you can find many mistakes much faster with "robot testing", so it'd be cheaper. Of course you wouldn't find "semantic" mistakes.
This kind of testing isn't about that kind quantative, QA type testing; it's about qualitative feedback, for example:
- "We have these wireframes of this new major feature, let's get a group of people from our target demographics in a room and have them react to it and give us early feedback"
- "We think we have an idea for a new product for managing widgets, so we want to talk to professional widget managers about how they currently manage their widgets; and test our hypothesis that this is a better way of doing it"
As the previous poster pointed out, this is something that isn't easily or readily generalisable into AI.
- "We have these wireframes of this new major feature, let's get a group of people from our target demographics in a room and have them react to it and give us early feedback"
- "We think we have an idea for a new product for managing widgets, so we want to talk to professional widget managers about how they currently manage their widgets; and test our hypothesis that this is a better way of doing it"
As the previous poster pointed out, this is something that isn't easily or readily generalisable into AI.
This isn't SQA testing, it's testing and validating human interaction with the user interface. You can't automate that (yet). You need human users
Askable Customer here. Fantastic service, would recommend to anyone in Australia. Vivien, who we work with, has done a great job (not too sure who this Andreas guy is).