Ranger becomes your first and only fully-automated QA engineer

For decades, QA has been the bane of too many engineers. Weeks, days, hours spent writing and running (and re-running tests), playing whack-a-mole with persistent bugs. Not only has this been costly for companies, it’s also racked up enormous opportunity cost for engineers who could have been spending their time on what they want and can do best: build. 

This has been such a painful problem that there’s been multiple waves of solutions – but even the most sophisticated have only put AI partially to work, mostly enabling humans to do QA more efficiently (but not all that efficiently, sitll). Completely automating this work with enough bug-catching confidence seemed to be a bridge too far.

Until now. Until Ranger. Today, it’s the only QA product on the market that writes, runs, and maintains tests that find and fix real bugs. And it’s been battle tested by some of the most challenging and ambitious companies in tech – OpenAI chief among them. When it came to running tests before their high-profile o1 launch, they trusted Ranger.

Other breakout companies, like Clay, Suno, and Dust, have also delegated their QA needs to Ranger so their teams can go back to building new features and shipping fast for their users.

While that’s the big value prop here, there are a few other reasons we see Ranger as not just the new category leader here – but a whole lap ahead of the pack. 

Ranger proactively tests your code, so you don’t get trapped in endless bug bashing. It brings in human oversight when needed to perfect results and your code. And it’s lightning fast. It handles all the infrastructure for running tests, spinning up browsers to run quickly and consistently across your whole team.

The folks at Ranger have built something so reliable, they’re even inviting anyone on the internet to submit a URL to test. Just scroll to their footer on Ranger.net and you can submit your site. 

Whenever you’re investing in an area where there are existing solutions, you’re placing your faith in two things: the belief that something new can be so much better that it will capture a market, and that the team building it is the team that’s going to make it exactly that great. 

We have huge conviction in both. So much so, that we led Ranger’s $2.4M pre-seed, and joined General Catalyst in their recent $6.5M seed round. We’d pretty much follow Founder Josh Ip anywhere. He’s the type of guy who will run 100 miles (this is a true story) in a solo race of his own design. And who will apply this same grit and follow through to everything he builds for others. We feel so fortunate to be working with him and his amazing team. 

We can’t wait to see who else benefits (and gains their own lead) from the Ranger experience. Hopefully it’ll be you.