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Why Getting Quality Feedback is So Hard (and How We're Trying to Solve It)
After launching our app, we realized something: getting honest, actionable feedback is incredibly difficult.
The problems we encountered:
Friends are too nice to be brutally honest
Casual users rarely take time to give detailed feedback
Analytics tell you WHAT is happening, but not WHY
Traditional surveys have terrible response rates
What we learned:
🧨 When Firebase, GCP & AWS go down at once, it’s a reminder of how fragile the internet really is
Today s outages (Firebase, GCP, AWS, Cloudflare, etc.) weren t just isolated blips, they exposed how deeply interdependent our tools and infra have become.
When core providers stumble, the ripple effect crushes hundreds of products instantly. No deploys, no logins, no analytics, no tests just waiting.
Curious how you all think about this:
- Are you actively building for redundancy or just hoping these giants hold?
What’s still broken about testing workflows in 2025?
I ve been talking to a lot of devs recently about how they approach testing in fast moving teams. The same pain points keep coming up.
Writing tests takes forever.
Maintaining them is even worse.
CI passes, but bugs still make it to production.