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Re:Show HN: Sedum – Playwright tests in English, cheap enough to run o... on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @12:58PM (#49911494)
Hey HN,

I'm Ignacio, CTO at Timeline. I launched an OSS library named Sedum today that lets you write e2e tests in plain english (or any other language).

Right now we are shipping so much AI generated code that we needed a way to write AI e2e tests in an economical way that we can run on every PR or even multiple times in local environments. The existing platforms charge you by step and they add a lot of mark up to the underlying AI calls.

For our 20 person engineering team, running these AI e2e tests in one of the existing paid tools, meant having to spend more than $5k/mo.

I was already thinking of doing an Open Source alternative some time ago, and when Jev launched, I played with it and quickly realised it's the way to go. It really makes it economical to run these tests with very high frequency and its probabilistic nature also helps you flag potential flakiness upfront, understand which tests should be run depending on the files being changed, and many other interesting use-cases.

But.. because Jev is only text and sometimes pure text is not enough to translate a sentence from plain english into a proper action or a proper assertion, in the cases where Jev is not confident enough, our library falls back on a vision model such Gemini Flash 3.8 (again.. BYOK).

Anyway, check it out and let me know what you think :)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024) on Monday July 01, 2024 @01:01PM (#40847756)
Timeline | London, United Kingdom | Senior Full Stack Engineer (full-time, contract) | Remote

We're looking for experienced Senior Software engineers! TL;DR: Our tech stack is Elixir, Elm and Rust. We are a rapidly growing company (100% YoY since launch). We work remotely. We work asynchronously and in four-week cycles using the Shape Up methodology. About Timeline: We are disrupting the financial planning and portfolio management software for advisers in the UK. We manage over £6B of clients assets on behalf of financial advisers.

Apply here: https://timelineapp.freshteam.com/jobs/bmZYCi_Breyu/full-sta...

Ask HN: Do we have to do everything by ourselves?

Posted by jgnatch on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @01:19AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Every time you created a new company, you worked on every aspect of starting a company. You and your team would code, design, copy-write, create marketing strategies and try to promote it by writing blog posts.You would start each project with, as it seems at the moment, infinite amounts of energy. You would listen to customers to find out their problems, create well-designed products and...

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Re:Blimp: project management for doers on Monday December 17, 2012 @11:01AM (#4932787)
The history section totally looks like Basecamp progress section!

Nice tool though!

Re:All-in-one iPad Mount and Stand on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @09:06AM (#4778019)
Does anyone know? how much it will weigh? I looked on the description but found nothing. It seems it adds weight but it is great anyway!
Re:All-in-one iPad Mount and Stand on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @09:04AM (#4778006)
Totally!... it will surely reach it kickstarter goal

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