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It Seems Most “Cypress Ambassadors” Don’t Love Cypress as They Claimed

Money does not lie, People do. A fair percentage are hypocrites.

Zhimin Zhan
7 min readAug 31, 2023

“Cypress Ambassadors: this article is not trying to convince you to dump Cypress. Instead, if you still like Cypress, suggest you donate to cypress.io, which seems to be in trouble (financially), to keep it alive.”

One article (in 2019) featured on the Cypress.io website says,

Since then, as we know, Cypress.io has done massive marketing (it even created a fancy title, Cypress Ambassador) to promote its product and commercial offerings (Cypress Cloud to execute test suites). Yes, its marketing effort paid off.

According to the latest download stats on npmjs, 5+ million weekly downloads.

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Zhimin Zhan
Zhimin Zhan

Written by Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.

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