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9 Mothers, P26. Former Rainforest QA, S12.

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www.rainforestqa.com 5mo ago

Lessons learned building a web application crawler

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magenta.withgoogle.com 1y ago

Magenta: Infinite Crate – Live Generative Music VST

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www.rainforestqa.com 2y ago

Surprise, your data warehouse can RAG

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Launch HN: Rainforest QA (YC S12) – No-Code UI Test Automation

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www.rainforestqa.com 5y ago

Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should own QA

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rainforest.engineering 5y ago

Hunting a race condition in the Android 10 Emulator

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rainforest.engineering 5y ago

macOS Tcc.db Internals

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www.rippling.com 7y ago

How Rippling Raised a $45M Series A – Without a Pitch Deck

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www.rainforestqa.com 7y ago

How to Estimate a Project Timeline?

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rsmith.co 7y ago

Bad vs. Good metrics

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airtable.com 8y ago

YC List on Airtable

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www.infoworld.com 8y ago

5 foolish reasons you’re not using Heroku

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medium.com 8y ago

Setting Up and Testing a Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Properly

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rsmith.co 8y ago

The (actual) art of over-engineering your side projects

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rsmith.co 8y ago

Fun with Toshi: Building a Simple Ethereum Faucet

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rsmith.co 9y ago

How to make it as easy as possible for someone to say yes to your meeting

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www.rainforestqa.com 9y ago

How We Use VMs for QA Testing

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www.rainforestqa.com 9y ago

How the Current Political Climate Reminds Us What We Stand For

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www.rainforestqa.com 9y ago

Real World Devices? Real Disaster for Testing

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github.com 10y ago

Show HN: GitHub +1 Badges Using Crystal and Redis

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blog.caffeinatedanalytics.com 10y ago

An Overview of Quantum Computing

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keen.io 10y ago

Don't build an in house Analytics Team

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medium.com 10y ago

Late Labs: what happened?

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github.com 10y ago

Open-Source Data Explorer by Keen IO

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codeship.com 11y ago

ParallelCI: Get faster tests by running your builds in parallel

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blog.rainforestqa.com 11y ago

Docker: Continuous Delivery

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blog.rainforestqa.com 11y ago

Docker: From Development to Continuous Delivery

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blog.rainforestqa.com 11y ago

The Many Reasons Your Deployment Is Racy

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blog.rainforestqa.com 12y ago

Designing for your colorblind users

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github.com 12y ago

Avoid missing webhooks; push them to SQS

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Ya, things always evolve, and can't always be perfect, especially against adapting enemies. Strobes; ya - would be interesting to see what these do vs us, not tried.

Grok 4.3 3 months ago

btw copy pasted your idea in to supergrok, and learnt about Niri! Great use case, thanks!

9 Mothers YC P26 | Robotics / Software Engineering | Austin, ONSITE | $150-400k + equity + benefits | 9mothers.com

I'm Russ, one of the founders of 9 Mothers. We're making AI weapon systems out of Austin, TX. Our first product is for stopping group 1 suicide drones. We started in 2025 - still a small team under 20 people. We're hiring for a lot of roles, but mostly in software and robotics.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers

Ditto. Though, I fixed my M1. I have an M4 max for work; the nano screen is a win. The perf is better, but it's really marginal unless actually doing stuff with the GPU, then it's super slow compared to a decent GPU anyway (i.e. h100, gb etc)

One of our engineers built a web-app crawler from scratch (why? enable users to quickly build a QA test plan). Jiri researched existing crawlers first and found nothing: he wrote about why build from scratch, plus technical challenges he ran into.

My last co runs hundreds of servers with Hetzner for a semi-stateless workload. With AWS, the pricing let alone the performance wouldn't be viable. At some point we also used Heroku for the application (more recently EKS); the combo drove folks nuts as, it was "weird".

9 Mothers Defense | Embedded Robotics Eng. & Computer Vision / ML Data Scientist | Hybrid (Austin TX) | Full-time

Building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones. We need sharp, hands-on engineers:

Embedded Robotics: Python on Jetson, CAN (+ EtherCAN / EtherCAT) drive buses, high-speed cameras, real-time PID/servo control, ROS, TensorRT

Computer Vision / ML: detection + tracking, transformer-based visual models, TensorRT tuning on Jetson

US persons only (e.g. green-card, citizens). Shoot your résumé / GitHub and a quick note on why you're good fit to jobs@9mothers.com