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QA.tech bets AI agents replace manual testing: PH #2 with 337 votes on second launch
Stockholm AI testing startup founded 2023; autonomous agents test SaaS end-to-end; €4M raised; 1.0 Product Hunt launch hit #2 of the day with 337 votes.
QA.tech
What the business is
QA.tech is a Stockholm-based AI testing platform: autonomous agents log in, walk through flows (login, signup, checkout) and report what breaks, sold as a SaaS subscription to companies that want to relieve QA teams or have none.
Starting capital：€4M total: €1M pre-seed plus €3M seed led by PROfounders with Curiosity and byFounders (qa.tech blog).
How it started
QA.tech was founded in 2023 in Stockholm by Daniel Mauno Pettersson, Patrick Lef, Marcus Carloni and Vilhelm von Ehrenheim. They bet that testing — slow with code and unscalable when manual — could be replaced by autonomous user-centric agents. The company raised €1M pre-seed and then €3M led by PROfounders six months later.
What happened
About 40 companies used the beta, including Leya, Upsales, Virtusize and Shoplab. The first Product Hunt launch on November 25, 2024 earned 117 points without being featured. On October 8, 2025 QA.tech launched 1.0: it was featured, held #1 for most of the day, reached 337 points and 66 comments, and finished #2 of the day after Retool took the lead — while taking #1 Developer Tool of the Week and a spot in The Leaderboard newsletter.
How it ended up
No exit or wind-down announced in the sources reviewed as of September 2026; the company continues operating from Stockholm, with the 1.0 launch marking the shift from beta toward a public product.
Background
QA.tech is a Stockholm-based AI testing platform founded in 2023 by Daniel Mauno Pettersson, Patrick Lef, Marcus Carloni and Vilhelm von Ehrenheim. Instead of test scripts, autonomous agents log into an app and walk through real flows — login, account creation, adding a product to the cart — then report what breaks, replacing manual QA and brittle scripted tests for B2B SaaS.
The company raised €1 million pre-seed and, six months later, €3 million in a seed round led by PROfounders with Curiosity and byFounders. About 40 companies were using the beta, including Leya, Upsales, Virtusize and Shoplab, and the product was offered as a SaaS subscription.
QA.tech's first Product Hunt launch on November 25, 2024 earned 117 points and was not featured. On October 8, 2025 the 1.0 launch was featured, led the day for most of its 24 hours, finished at 337 points and 66 comments — #2 Product of the Day after Retool took the lead — and took #1 Developer Tool of the Week plus a spot in Product Hunt's The Leaderboard newsletter.
The launch also added 519 new Product Hunt followers (+186%). The pattern — a quiet first launch, then a bigger, better-prepared second one — became QA.tech's distribution lesson, and the company's bet is that user-centric AI agents, not scripts, are the future of testing.
What has to be true
- It attacked a real, measurable pain: QA is either slow manual work or costly script maintenance, and startups without QA headcount are the natural wedge market.
- The agents test from the user's perspective — logging in and clicking through flows — which catches what users will actually hit.
- A second, well-prepared launch outperformed the first by 3x: featured status, 337 votes versus 117, and #1 Developer Tool of the Week.
What can be applied
A quiet first launch doesn't kill a product: a year after an unfeatured 117-vote launch, 1.0 hit #2 of the day with 337 votes and #1 Developer Tool of the Week.
Aftermath
As of September 2026, QA.tech continues to operate from Stockholm as an AI testing platform; no exit or wind-down is announced in the sources reviewed. The October 2025 Product Hunt launch added 519 followers (+186%), and the 1.0 release marked the shift from a beta used by roughly 40 customers to a public product. Its pitch remains that fully autonomous user-centric testing, sold as SaaS, lets fast-moving teams ship without a QA bottleneck.
Sources
- 🔴 Live: QA.tech 1.0 on Product Hunt
- QA.tech raises €3 million: 'Provides a glimpse into the future of programming'
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