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Are automated tests worth it for indie hackers?

Abrar Sami
Mar 21, 2023
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Hello fellow Indie, welcome to this week’s issue of The Indie Press. Sip your Monday morning coffee and get ready to indulge into some Indie News

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Our story of the week raises this question:

Are automated tests worth it for indie hackers?

One of the best practices in software development is considered to be writing automated tests. I see some engineers are even fans of TTD(test-driven development), which basically means, writing tests first even before writing code!

Though I was never a big fan of tests, I can see how tests can help engineers to save countless debugging hours in certain situations. Especially if you work in a large team where you can’t effort to merge an intern’s code without validating it will not break the whole codebase! Besides, processes like TTD can help you better understand your structure, bring up edge cases, and make you think through.

But it slows down the shipping and iteration process and according to Maxime Dupré, it’s not worth it for indie hackers!

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Maxime Dupré 🔨🥹 @maximehugodupre
Controversial: Indie hackers should not be doing automated tests. The ROI is simply not worth it 😅
6:31 PM ∙ Mar 16, 2023
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Do you agree with his stand? Let us know the comments 👇

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Facts or Nah?

AI has definitely set a new stage out there. OpenAI releases ChatGPT, Google launches Bard and Indies or Bootstrapped founders are launching…well… targets a niche calls OpenAI API **launches a product

I mean with all that’s going on, lots of old products are becoming replaceable thanks to the new wave of AI

What are your thoughts?

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Jon Yongfook @yongfook
2018: quit job, take risk, try to build a tech business 2022: built tech business into something sustainable 2023: AI makes all tech work obsolete
12:29 AM ∙ Mar 15, 2023
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It be like that sometimes

Indie hacking is a never-ending cycle of:

I'm a genius! What am I even doing? I'm definitely a genius. Wait, nope. I have no idea what I'm doing

-Joe Ashwell

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