11 engineers on Hacker News describe using Cypress first-hand: 3 endorse it, 4 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“We ran some e2e UI tests with Cypress that required a lot of beefy instances, and for safety we'd run them every single time.”
regret · production · doublet00th · 2025-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we were using Cypress Enterprise, were frustrated with their lack of responsiveness to product suggestions and support requests and rapidly increasing costs.”
regret · production · fluxsauce · 2023-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Cypress had some flakiness issues that we just could not get fixed despite putting in considerable effort.”
regret · production · jemmyw · 2023-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Cypress has gotten us really close to a place where frontend testing can have really good coverage. But it's not quite there yet IMO.”
mixed · production · archarios · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the first axiom prototype we sold customers was on cypress.io - I liked it! ... Cypress is a great batteries-included E2E solution though.”
endorse · production · yaseer · 2021-03-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love Cypress overall, but wouldn't advocate using Cypress commands unless you are doing something weird.”
endorse · production · veidr · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using Cypress at work and we (well, at least I) have a love-hate relationship with it.”
mixed · production · hugocbp · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Cypress is great. We use it at Draftbit. e2e testing is straight forward. We test most of our platform with this”
endorse · production · thegreatpeter · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We used Cypress for a while at Notion but removed it due to high memory usage and crashes.”
regret · production · jitl · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using it for 6+ months. I'm not crazy about it, but I have no known superior alternatives”
mixed · production · 0.5 yr · JMTQp8lwXL · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use CypressJS for automated end-to-end testing of our entire app.”
neutral · production · keremkazan · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?