r/testfiapp

I'm loving my experience on the app and I've noticed few changes

- There's a leaderboard to see the users testing the app

- Payout is done manually by the team so it takes less than 24hrs to receive it

- Task that are closed are now being removed which is a good thing

- I'm still waiting for the support chat feature the team promised. [ I can also work as a moderator for testfi if the team is looking to hire ]

Been running TestFi for a while now and I keep seeing the same thing.

Dev tests their own app, everything works, they ship. First real person opens it and something breaks immediately. Not always something complicated. Usually something obvious in hindsight.

It's not that devs are bad testers. It's that you've looked at your own app too many times. You know where to click without thinking. You skip the steps that used to confuse you because you already fixed those. By the time you ship, you literally cannot see it like a new user would.

Real examples from sessions we've seen:

One dev tested an onboarding flow on five devices, no issues. First external tester has an iPhone 12 mini. The Next button is hidden behind the keyboard. Not scrollable. She sat there for three minutes and gave up.

Another one: fintech app, team of four tested it for weeks. First outside tester taps Connect Bank Account. White screen. Dev had hardcoded his own test token and never swapped it out. Worked for literally everyone on the team. Nobody else.

My own embarrassing one: I watched a recording from an early TestFi build and the tester spent four full minutes looking for a back button. There wasn't one. I had shipped a flow with no way to go back and never noticed.

Drop yours. What did a real user catch that slipped completely past you?