Show HN: E2E testing is a waste of time. We taught an AI to do it instead

2 ElasticBottle 2 6/25/2025, 1:54:59 PM playmatic.ai ↗

Hey Hacker News,

For the last 2 months, I've been working on a testing agent to free developers from the endless maintenance of end-to-end tests.

You just push up a PR, and our agent analyzes the code changes and automatically visits the preview to test things out like a real human!

We also support describing tests in English (or even in the PR description), and we'll go through your site whenever you want via a GitHub action to test and make sure various core flows continue to work as expected.

We are looking for early testers and are giving out a generous free tier! Just sign up on the landing page.

Comments (2)

Su- · 7m ago

How long do tests take. Also your footer has invisible links

ElasticBottle · 4m ago

Depends on the PR / test ask. From our internal usage, most tests take around 5 - 15 mins.

Also noted on the invisible links, will get it fixed!

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Show HN: E2E testing is a waste of time. We taught an AI to do it instead

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