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Endform raises €1.5M to make Playwright tests run in seconds

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Written by Jakob Norlin

We’ve raised €1.5M in pre-seed funding to keep building the fastest way to run Playwright end-to-end tests. The round is led by Alliance VC, with participation from First Fellow, Greens, and our earliest backer Antler, who are doubling down on their investment. We’re also joined by angel investors from Netlify, Wolt, Voi, and CTO Roundtable.

What we’re building

Endform runs your Playwright end-to-end tests massively in parallel. Every test gets its own isolated machine. Your suite finishes in the time it takes to run your slowest test, whether you have 10 tests or 1,000.

It’s a drop-in replacement. You don’t change your tests, your config, or your setup. You swap one CLI command and your suite runs on Endform.

If you want the full origin story, I wrote about it when we first introduced Endform, and Oliver wrote about the technical architecture behind how it works.

What’s already happening

Endform has been running in production for a while now, and real teams depend on it daily.

Lovable moved their Playwright suite to Endform and grew their test count by 10x while cutting their suite runtime by over 80%. They now run more than 400,000 Playwright tests per week on Endform. As Viktor Eriksson from the Lovable team put it:

“End-to-end tests used to slow us down. Endform has unblocked us, giving us results quickly so we can just keep moving.”

Other teams are using Endform in production too, running thousands of tests daily and getting results in seconds instead of minutes.

What the money is for

We’re a two-person team today. Oliver and I have built everything so far: the Rust CLI, the execution infrastructure, the analytics platform. The fundraise lets us grow.

We’re hiring engineers to go deeper on the product, and making our first go-to-market hires to reach the teams that need this most. If either of those sounds like you, please apply.

What’s next

We’ve proven that you can decouple suite size from suite runtime. The core execution engine works and scales. Now we want to go further with deeper analytics to surface flaky and failing tests before they become a problem, and better debugging tools to help you fix them fast.

The goal hasn’t changed since day one: developers should be able to write the tests they need without fighting the infrastructure to run them.

/ Jakob

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Endform?
Endform runs browser based end to end tests for web applications quickly and reliably. We target the end to end testing framework Playwright.
How do I get started with Endform?
Getting started with Endform is easy! Just switch out one CLI command and you are up and running. We are fully Playwright compatible - no configuration changes needed.
How does Endform work?
Endform distributes your Playwright tests across hundreds of machines in the cloud. We run one test per machine, and coordinate the collection of results. This way your test suite finishes in the fastest possible time, while letting you focus on writing tests instead of managing infrastructure.
How fast is Endform compared to other runners?

Endform runs Playwright tests significantly faster than traditional runners by utilizing full parallelization and a highly optimized runtime.

We have seen speedups of some test suites of over 20x, and we can run most test suites in under 2 minutes.

Do you support other test frameworks than Playwright?
No. As of today we only support running Playwright tests. This lets us focus on providing the best possible experience for Playwright users. In the future we may consider adding support for other frameworks.