Waldo Sessions - Run, inspect, share mobile apps from the browser

Thanks a ton for hunting us @dessaigne ! Hi everyone, I am Laurent, the CTO of Waldo. I am super excited about this new product that we’re launching. After spending some / a few / a good number of years on building the best (we hope) tool to automate mobile apps, we’ve decided to give away some parts of the technology to serve more use cases around mobile testing. One of the most common frustration we hear from mobile teams is how hard it is to **share** information around a mobile user flow: 😠 it’s hard for product and developers to efficiently do a new feature review. Sure, both can run the pre-release build on their own, but what if a button is not properly implemented and does not correspond to the original specs? where do you capture that? 😠 it’s hard for developers to know what to do when they receive a bug ticket that states “Login button does not work”. Sure, there might be a few more details in the ticket than that, but more often than not the ticket will get closed as “cannot reproduce” because there’s simply not enough information and context to work with 😠 it’s hard for mobile teams to share with the rest of the org what just got shipped. A Changelog.md is great, but that’s far from giving the real picture.. We’ve made Waldo Sessions with all those use cases in mind. It allows to run your app on any device right from the browser, to annotate at specific time of the session, and to share the replay with its full context: 😃 the review is now a breeze: the developer records the new feature flow, the product manager goes over the replay and annotates all its nits along the video. 😃 in case you notice a bug, you simply share the link (better yet, at the time it happened) and the developer has all the information to debug: logs, network requests, video stream, list of gestures.. there’s no need to reproduce, all the information is already there. 😃 and that replay link also becomes the best way to showcase your next great feature with the rest of the org! We’re really looking forward to all your feedback on this release, we hope you like it!

Hey hunters, Waldo is back with the first release of their new product Sessions. It helps mobile teams test their apps right from the browser. Super neat. You should check it out!

I think this feature could be as big as a change in Product Development than when Figma was introduced... The ability to play with a iOS simulator directly from the browser, test a new branch, and comment inline is absolutely game changer.

Hi, Software developer on the product here, so I won't tell you it's good (it is) but i'll dig on the aspect I worked on 😁 I handled parts of the storage backend on this one and it presented some fun challenges. Waldo already had features to stream logs and requests in the Sessions (Previously named "Live") view of the application and to save them so that they can be downloaded during automated tests but both features were heavily scoped toward their specific usage and Sessions meant that we needed to save all of theses in a way that we could keep them forever and show them as fast as possible when a replay is requested (With the ability to seek into them and advance all of that in sync with the video). Making available full system logs for example (Essentially on Android archive everything logcat produces) can be up to 1Go of data per replay but it can be critical to pinpoint some issues so we worked on making it possible. -- All of the features that Waldo Sessions make available (video recording, requests, logs) were already there in one form or another for web developers but mobile developers can now get them too and in one place 🚀

Congrats on the launch! 🎉 For discussing the June report metrics with @manou_febvret and @Edouard from time to time, I can tell you that Waldo’s stickiness is through the roof! Well done Waldo!

Definitely something I was looking for while working on mobile apps. This is a great product and benefits to the overall Waldo's experience. Congrats to the team!

I am very proud to be part of the team behind Waldo Sessions. We’ve been working very hard over the last months to provide you the best experience possible, so very excited for this launch ! Don’t hesitate, give it a try, and let us know what you think. I really hope you like it !

I'm so happy to be part of this amazing team that is constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible. The team has been working hard to release Waldo Sessions so people can inspect and debug their app in an all-in-one tool without any local setup!

Hi everyone, I'm the PM behind Waldo Sessions, excited to launch today as we have worked a lot these past months to provide a smooth experience for Waldo Sessions, and make Waldo more accessible. I'm pretty happy with our "time to magic" now: see by yourself, give it a try, and Ask Me Anything, I'll follow this thread the whole day. 🚀

Great product with a smooth onboarding! Always great to be able to test your app on multiple devices before releasing your build 🙌 In love with the 🦙 !

Congratulations team! I am big of fan of waldo since past 2 years! Sessions has a nice and sleek UI and it is very well thought through product! Kudos to team waldo!

I’m impressed! Session is a minimal effort, high return tool to accelerate your mobile app development and include non-technical colleagues. 👍

I'm excited that our team has just released Waldo Sessions! We've been working hard on this tool and we're proud to have it out in the wild. If you're tired of manually checking the latest builds on every PR, then Waldo Sessions is perfect for you. With this all-in-one tool, you can easily preview all the latest builds, and what's even better is that you can share a video that includes all the interactions, console logs, and network requests. This will help you close the feedback loop and streamline collaboration across teams, which is super important when it comes to delivering high-quality apps. I'm talking to developers and QAs every day and they all share how challenging it can be to ensure that your app is top-notch. That's why we've made Waldo Sessions free for everyone to use. So, if you're involved in building mobile apps, give it a try and let us know what you think!

Amazing project by amazing designer, good luck Manou!

It's great to see the reaction to Session. I was here when we first launch Waldo automate in 2020, we already had a workable prototype a live debugger, but kudos to the team for the work to bring it to the public in such a sleek, Dark Mode fashion ;) This is our second testing product. Can't wait to hear everyone's feedback, how would it help you?

This is the tool I was missing in the development of the internal mobile apps for my company. Thank you for saving me time and productivity. Nice job !

Really innovative solution for mobile testing, excited to try it out ! 😍

Good luck on the launch team!!

Congrats on the launch! Curious to know if this was started first as a self-built tool and then transformed into what it is now, or started as a business?

Very intuitive experience, this will for sure help developers and PM collaborate on mobile experiences. Keep up the great work!