Kevin McDonagh

Kevin McDonagh

Velocity: AI User testingVelocity: AI User testing
AI User testing @ AppVelocity.io
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Vibe check: Instant UX Benchmark, launching Wed 25th March

Velocity is breaking out of Figma! 'Vibe Check' benchmarks the live web, no plugins needed. Lovable, Make, Claude code all supported. A/B test a bunch of designs or competitors. Velocity has cultivated a great community of designers and PMs as a Figma plugin, but recently design has evolved outside of Figma alone. We are extending the options for improving your earliest prototypes by porting...

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I love little computer people, thank you
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Curious to hear and witness some success stories by other hunters who have used Octoclaw.
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Vibes! Usually tbh I just fly by PH and I'm looking for fun vibes, if it catches me that it could be fun to explore I click.
CY
What makes you click into a Product Hunt launch?
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Traditionally its scaled with size, charging by heads model but thats being challenged, but how many are poking the app is still relevant. Theres a gap between an individual and a team. Theres also clear division in enterprise B2B as that has many teams. Depending on your ICPs, traditionally you divided features based upon how much shared interactivity was required. It's going to shake out in...
Nika
How do you decide what features should be free and what should be paid?
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Since it shouldn't be this hard to find demos I've created a sheet of prototyped demos. If anyone wants added to it please let me know. I could add some columns and colours if you'd like 'featured' :) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WMp9PHDXHDFV9pwWv4p-CzVqxNnNe-GNmMdhTDapsHU/edit?usp=sharing
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A request to share your Vibes 🔗...
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I'm really sorry to hear that but it's not the end of the world. Product hunt is just one of many campaigns in your products marketing. The product will never be "good enough" and enough people will never have seen it. Reviewing how many returning users are returning on a 1/7/14/30d basis is a hard truth. But the next move is always the next most important priority for your real users. If you...
Steve Kwok
When your launch gets crickets, how do you cope?
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I am struggling. If I were sensible I'd go with "Measure and compare UX time-to-value." But considering it will feature alongside the title of Vibe check: UX benchmark I'm thinking "Good vibes only!" is more fun.
Aaron O'Leary
🔥 Drop your tagline and I'll try to guess what your product is
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Building @Velocity: AI User testing mostly with Figma Make, Figma, Claude Code, Node, sitting on GCP. We just do loads and loads of interviews, I believe interviews are the best roadmap. Off the back of them we prioritise and ship!
Ryan Hendrickson
What are you building, and what does your stack look like?
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Not just securtiy, the biggest problems come from DB migrations. Agents are guilty of making breaking changes and then not highlighting the breaking change. I shy away from trusting them with likely breaking changes, things that will likely change the DB topology.
Nika
How much do you trust AI agents?
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A request to share your Vibes 🔗...

Might anyone have some open URLs of their Vibe coded prototypes on Lovable / V0 / Bolt / Figma Make or Claude Code? I'm looking for some prototypes without logins to test a new version of our product which we'll be announcing next week. I'd like to check it on some existing Vibes. Bonus points if you have a task for me to user test for you, I'd gladly share feedback.

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Kind of amazing that you can generate an API like this. Does it suffer from the same problems as web scrapers if the DOM should change dynamically? Since it's an API I'm supposing that actually it could protect as a layer of abstraction above the changes on the page and then you just get it to self heal on a recurring basis? Perhaps you could even charge for that self healing cadence.
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It's all relationships. Theres such a small sampling of users who are actually going to use your product daily but each one of those makes a huge difference. The forgotten early days of instagram were just a few influencers that people wanted to see their coffees and brunch. But it was everyone in the same workspace. Lean into the small, no one else on the web can see how physically close they...
Wendy Ng
Journey to verify a dream, will it end up to be a nightmare?
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Yeah I feel like this, I'd rather shout out 3 other apps I like than the same 3 apps that have been mentioned a million times. On our next release I'll mention @Pinboard just because I love them. It's a good point, I'll keep an eye out for tools I just generally like perhaps I'll mention @NMTV just because it's cool --edit-- I've been thinking about this, wouldn't it be cool if as a PH culture...
Jake Crump
Should you add a shoutout to your Product Hunt launch?
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I like how you've separated the human and Machine areas. That could really become a thing.
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Simple premise, I could deffo see myelf using this even while recording a video.
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Limited Vision Simulations in Beta

1 in 4 have some form of sight loss, so Product Hunt teams may be curious to experience their designs through Velocity blurred vision simulations now in open Beta: https://blog.appvelocity.io/blurred-vision-simulations/

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End of early bird pricing next week

Heads up, we are increasing our pricing next week. Our early bird is coming to an end. Over 1k users have joined before we increased pricing. We won't raise pricing on anyone who got a previous deal. www.appvelocity.io

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Always the networking and the facilitation of making the conversation flow easily. We can all watch presentations in the house, we attend these events to speak with people. Everyone is there, making an effort and it's hard to find the motivation. Anything the organiser can do to help the better. Introducing speaking points at the event, however you choose to do it is crucial.
Nika
When you attend a tech event, what do you usually expect?
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Requirements for UX simulation reports are now completely configurable

Are your designs meeting realistic goals? 🤔 Learn how configuring aims for your prototypes using UX simulations can support productive team discussions. Blog post on how to configure requirements 🔗 Video of how to configure reports 🔗