Seeking Feedback for QA Subscription Service
Hey fellow indie hackers!
I'm excited to share a project I've been working on recently: It’s a Quality Assurance (QA) subscription service for SaaS and e-commerce. As we all know, maintaining high-quality software is crucial for success, but often the cost, time or complication of other QA services can be prohibitive for smaller teams or solofounders. That's where my QA subscription service comes in - affordable and accessible quality assurance for all!
The idea behind this service is simple: I've been a QA Engineer for 7 years working in many different product areas, from customer facing entertainment apps to enterprise SaaS I’m passionate about high quality software and helping indie developers and entrepreneurs achieve their goals. My mission is to empower your product to shine, and alleviate the responsibility of QA from time strapped solofounders like yourselves by highlighting nasty bugs and providing valuable feedback on user experience.
Here's how it works:
- You subscribe to a monthly plan based on your testing needs, starting as low as
$3995$1995 per month. - We'll have an onboarding call to understand your product, target audience, and specific testing requirements.
- I will thoroughly test your website or mobile application, focusing on functionality, performance, security, and user interface.
- You'll receive bugs found, test cases and suggestions for improvements within 48 hours.
I created the website in a weekend on Carrd and I know that constructive feedback is the lifeblood of growth. So I thought I’d turn to the indie hacker community to gather insights, suggestions, and thoughts that can take my QA subscription service to the next level.
Here are a few questions I'd love to get your opinions on:
- Does the pricing structure seem reasonable and attractive to indie developers and founders like yourselves?
- Are there any specific features or types of testing you believe should be included in my service offering?
- How can I better tailor my service to meet the needs of early-stage startups or solopreneurs with limited resources?
- What channels do you think would be effective for marketing my QA subscription service to our target audience?
I welcome all feedback, whether it's positive or points out areas for improvement. Your valuable input will shape the future of my service, and I'll be incredibly grateful for your time.
If you're interested in trying out my QA subscription service, I’m also offering a limited-time discount of 50% for 3 months on the monthly plan to the first 10 indie hackers who sign up using the discount code: INDIEHACK
Thank you for being an amazing community, and I can't wait to hear your thoughts!
EpicQA - Quality Assurance Subscription
www.epicqa.com
Oh snap! Something I can comment on a bit haha.
Great idea! I'm not aware of an other QA as a services, not sure if you're the first, but I'll get you listed in this directory I run.
It looks like there's a bit of search volume (170/mo) for QA As a service, would love to hear what other search terms you're chasing? (I can do a search with my tool to check competition if you want.)
I think you're already starting to do this w/the 50% discount, nice work!!
I think the value prop for that audience might be for VC funding later? I get the impression from most of those ppl on twitter that they do not care about QA (sorry!)
but, if you highlight/target companies after funding or with funding, you can highlight why it matters to VCs/investors? Just a thought.
(They also are more likely to have the type of monthly $ you're after based on pricing.)
((imho solopreneurs are not ideal for this offering unless they are funded))
I think YC, launching on Producthunt early to get feedback/pivot as needed, and ofc blogging/some SEO.
I really think there's room for you to make a educational content play. The vast majority of people i know, esp in indie hacker world, do not see any importance to QA lol.
Plenty of Tweets highlight how badly things go when systems/integrations mess up, so maybe making an 'after action' type of QA review could be good?
(Similar to how design roasts are a lead magnet for design services.)
Ok! That's it. All off the top of my head, I love this concept, hope you continue with it.
Would love to follow your Twitter if you have one. Best of luck!
Hey @Esus
Big thanks for the feedback and adding me to your directory.
In all honesty I've not had a look at any other search terms, it's something I definitely wish to explore though.
The price point looks like it could be a challenge, going to follow that advice and lower prices to get some validation and feedback of the service.
I tend to agree about the lack of importance some people show towards QA, an educational content play is a great idea, I started working on some content a while back, will continue with that.
Launching on Product Hunt next week, will look at targeting the service to funded startups rather than solopreneurs as you mentioned above, makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for the encouragement!
Hi.
Do you have any ref customers? Anyone who's actually hired you, that can verify what you say? When I was a dev/prod mgr, I wanted the overall QA/CI process rolled into the dev process as closely as possible to be able to find issues, implement changes in an ordered process.
How close do you get to the dev/test flows?
I would say for the vast majority of people here, the price won't work.
Have you checked out the ycombinator.news (i think -- google it) where you have more "funded" voices who post. if you google how to join/sign up, you could post this there...
hope this helps
Hi tsmith
Thanks for the feedback.
Currently I have no ref customers, only past and current employers. Do you think adding a testimonial section and requesting brief feedback is the way to go?
I like to get as close to and early as possible to development in order to find and have resolved issues quickly, I try to position myself as an ally to the dev rather than a roadblock (which I feel is where some dev/qa relationships go wrong).
Will check out ycombinator news, thanks again!