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BRB, starting up AndroidAppDevTesting.io - faking test users to PlayStore-as-a-Service. For just $29.95/month we will load your new app onto a fleet of 20 test

BRB, starting up AndroidAppDevTesting.io - faking test users to PlayStore-as-a-Service. For just $29.95/month we will load your new app onto a fleet of 20 test Android devices and run your Appium or Selendroid test suites twice a day for 14 days.

dkarras 3y ago
you joke but this will happen.
- bigiain 3y ago
  I mean, it's kinda just BrowserStack or DeviceFarm and an Ansible script, right? (I'd spend an evening or two setting up a landing page and duct taping that Ansible script onto my Stripe account, but I've got a personal policy of never ever trying to sell tools to developers...)
  - MrDresden 3y ago
    >I've got a personal policy of never ever trying to sell tools to developers... It feels like there is a story there. Care to share?
    - Spivak 3y ago
      Developers are some of the worst customers you'll ever have the displeasure of experiencing. We are incredibly cheap and price sensitive, have literally zero ethics around reasonable usage (if they didn't want me to do it they should have stopped me), we're loud and obnoxious with strongly held opinions, think the world revolves around us and our pet issues, and will work tirelessly to make sure you make no money. We're the Karen's of the digital age. This is a self-callout, I'm guilty of all of these.
      - JohnFen 3y ago
        I've been selling dev tools and libraries for decades, and all of that exists (it exists with non-dev customers as well), but none of it is so awful that it makes addressing that market undesirable.
dangus 3y ago
I feel like this actually would be a weirdly therapeutic little side gig.
cryptoz 3y ago
Cute but surely those devices, accounts and IPs will all be banned, along with the developer who used the service? I wouldn't play around with my account like that personally.
- creshal 3y ago
  I'll be worth it to scammers. As so often with misguided policies, only the honest are punished.
e12e 3y ago
Why not resell testers from Amazon Turk with a hefty markup?
Testers20 3y ago
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dkarras 3y ago

you joke but this will happen.

bigiain 3y ago
I mean, it's kinda just BrowserStack or DeviceFarm and an Ansible script, right? (I'd spend an evening or two setting up a landing page and duct taping that Ansible script onto my Stripe account, but I've got a personal policy of never ever trying to sell tools to developers...)
- MrDresden 3y ago
  >I've got a personal policy of never ever trying to sell tools to developers... It feels like there is a story there. Care to share?
  - Spivak 3y ago
    Developers are some of the worst customers you'll ever have the displeasure of experiencing. We are incredibly cheap and price sensitive, have literally zero ethics around reasonable usage (if they didn't want me to do it they should have stopped me), we're loud and obnoxious with strongly held opinions, think the world revolves around us and our pet issues, and will work tirelessly to make sure you make no money. We're the Karen's of the digital age. This is a self-callout, I'm guilty of all of these.
    - JohnFen 3y ago
      I've been selling dev tools and libraries for decades, and all of that exists (it exists with non-dev customers as well), but none of it is so awful that it makes addressing that market undesirable.

dangus 3y ago

I feel like this actually would be a weirdly therapeutic little side gig.

cryptoz 3y ago

Cute but surely those devices, accounts and IPs will all be banned, along with the developer who used the service? I wouldn't play around with my account like that personally.

creshal 3y ago
I'll be worth it to scammers. As so often with misguided policies, only the honest are punished.

e12e 3y ago

Why not resell testers from Amazon Turk with a hefty markup?

Testers20 3y ago

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