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Is Kenny a Hiyakasudere or Yandere?

I’m starting a new project where I look at apps, tools and such made by indie developers and talk with my audience (or my girlfriend, or my cat) through my thought process and where I expected things to be or how I instinctively would expect things to work. 

I’ve spent years in the trenches as a QA Engineer, Software Engineer and Project Manager. I know what goes into building apps and I work daily with a large enterprise product. I enjoy seeing how other people solve logical challenges and how their brains work to solve various hurdles and finding out where the user flow gets a little confusing for them as a creator.

I plan on recording myself using your site or app for the very first time as well as my mostly unfiltered reaction (I'm not looking to be mean or cruel, but direct). I'm also not doing a microscopic, line-by-line QA audit, I'm giving you a "first look" from a QA/developer/PM's perspective. I'll try out some user flows (maybe all, scope is likely to be limited), look at the UI, and voice my opinion on it. 

You get some visibility since I'll be showcasing your project (no existing community, but I’ll post on all my socials too), plus I’ll hand back concrete, actionable feedback to help you improve your user experience.

I plan to be super relaxed and casual. I'll give you a fair, realistic perspective, but I'm absolutely not here to be cruel or tear your hard work apart. I legitimately just want to help people succeed and avoid any of the gaping pitfalls that occur in this industry.

I welcome anyone to stay in touch afterward, too. I'm happy to keep helping out where I can.

Edit:

I am holding off on replying to you all so that I can do so while I'm actively recording. Thank you all!

I'll be recording and responding tonight.

Edit 2:

THIS BLEW UP. I'll get to all of you. I started initially taking about half an hour per entry and I quickly realized I could not do that. I'm going to do my best to give everything a thorough first spin and we can keep in touch and get everything working but I've gotta cut back a little to get to all of you.

Need to connect to work on something or get my attention? Check out zeiddiez.com and add me on linkedin