Being among the Top 30 Indian Hottest Startups

Being recognized as one among the Top 30 Indian Hottest Startups is a reaffirmation of the value offered by our product TestersDesk.com. Thanks to all the thousands of Software Testers who voted for ValueMinds/TestersDesk.com at www.hotteststartups.in.

I was in Mumbai yesterday at Taj Mahal Hotel, in the very same building that was destroyed in the recent terrorist attacks, and was rebuilt as a magic within days (as if nothing ever happened there).

TATA, National Entrepreneurs Network, Ernst and Young, Helion, and several other premier entities have organized a wonderful event constituting Hottest Roundups to discuss various startup-centric topics, and the final awards presentation.

There was a decent print media coverage like this one from mint as well as TV coverage from CNBC. The platform enabled good networking too...

Many people liked the fact that we are an Online Test Design and Test Data Generation Toolbox, and were able to see where in the Software Test Life Cycle can TestersDesk.com offer help.

Certain key folks had one common question- Why are you offering this as a FREE service?

Here are some of the points that we responded with:

1. The FREE Online Community Edition is a way how we reach out to, and be part of, the Testing fraternity around the world.
   
2. We are focused on growth and not on profit at this time.
   
3. In future we plan to release a Premium Edition that eats our own dog food from the free version and solve certain context-specific problems, for a reasonable fee.
   
4. It gifts us a great degree of satisfaction, empowerment, and hope seeing thousands of users leveraging our free community edition to accelerate the solutions for Test design and Test data problems.

One more question many had was what type of applications does TestersDesk.com cater to, and what types of testing can it accelerate? (on the first take, it hinted me to redesign our homepage with the answer to this question- anyway,) TestersDesk.com provides "abstract" tools that can be used in the "functionality" testing of any type of Software application. May be testers on a web application can quickly relate to, but so can be someone doing the test design for input combinations on a mobile application!

As good as it gets, TestersDesk.com!