DesignQA
An AI devtool, from zero to one through 50+ user interviews, with paying customers before launch.
- Role
- Founder and product designer
- Team
- Solo from zero to one, then three engineers and a video producer
- Timeline
- 2024
- Discovery2024
- V1/V2
- V3
- V4
- Problem
- Design QA is manual, slow and inconsistent: 10-15 minutes to report each bug, then a guessing game to fix it.
- Solution
- One-click bug capture in a Chrome extension, then the fix as a real pull request.
- Results
30 s
Before · 15 minAfter · 30 sTime to report a bug
70+
Waitlist signups in a few weeks
3
Paying customers before the MVP shipped
V1: a Chrome extension
Chosen over a Figma plugin, a VS Code extension and a SaaS app: it works wherever the bug is.
The prototype that closed three customers
I demoed this Figma prototype in sales calls, before writing any production code.
From 15 minutes to 30 seconds
Click an element, type a line. The rest is captured automatically.
The V1 promo video
I storyboarded every scene, then hired a producer to shoot it.
V2 and V3: the full issue view
What nobody used came out, and every report got a shareable link.
V3: can it just fix it?
Reporting isn't the bottleneck; fixing is. Customers kept asking: can it just fix it for me?
V4: edit any website
People weren't reporting bugs; they were redesigning their sites. V4 edits any live site and pushes real code.
Design, describe, and apply
Edit visually, describe changes in plain language, then ship them as one pull request.
The bet
Had paying customers, dropped the paywall. I saw the shift to V4 early but moved too late.
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