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Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

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Re: Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

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Post by AnonC »

Ankhers wrote: post #36

Are there extensions planned for other browsers? It seems right now when you click on "get jam" button, it takes me to the chrome web store.

I wanted to know the same and had to dig into the Docs section on the website to find that it currently supports all Chromium based browsers. Support for other browsers is said to be coming in the future.

Re: Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

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Post by jsheard »

tiffanyh wrote: post #37

Too cheap. It seems extremely inexpensive. Even though it's not a direct comparison, look at https://www.hotjar.com/pricing/ (and switch to the "pay by month" pricing view)

"Suspiciously cheap" is on-brand for an ex-Cloudflare team

Re: Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

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Post by Narushia »

Haven't heard of this before, seems very useful!

God I wish there was something like this for mobile apps, though. Or a website running on the user's mobile device browser. I know Firefox Android does support extensions, but most people on Android use Chrome. And I think on iOS the browser extension situation was miserable the last time I read about it. Either way, an app would probably be the best way to do it.

Re: Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

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Post by dewey »

floobertoober wrote: post #25
thedg wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great concern! We do two things to address that: The first is nothing gets recorded and saved (or even sent to our backend) until the user actively chooses to log a bug. So it’s like actively choosing to save a HAR file when there’s a bug. The second is we scrub all network requests on the client side for anything that resembles PII or sensitive data. We just don’t want it on our servers. Is there anything else you t…

Maybe scrub cookies and authorization headers by default, but make them an opt-in for bugs where they're relevant? Edit: it looks like this is already the case!

> but make them an opt-in for bugs where they're relevant?

The tool seems to be built for people who don't know what to include in a proper bug report (As they are maybe not technical enough), so not sure how helpful that choice would be for them.

Re: Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

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Post by toekneestuck »

alt227 wrote: post #38

I got really excited before I saw there was no firefox support. Thats a deal breaker for my team :( I really like this idea and if Firefox support was added I would purchase it in a heartbeat.

[I work at Jam] We do have an internal build for Firefox.. it's coming :)

Re: Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

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Post by mark242 »

The thing I love the most about Sentry/Bugsnag/Honeycomb/etc is that it is essentially automated observability. That is, I don't need to do a huge amount of integration to have, basically, a prioritized list of bugs along with severity and overall application health.

I like the idea of the browser extension being able to offer these kinds of tools where you wouldn't need to install a heavy Javascript snippet -- but I do think that taking the manual steps out of debugging wherever you can is the most efficient. With Bugsnag et al, I don't need to wait for a user to contact me. I shouldn't have to wait for someone to submit a Jam report in order to see how healthy my app is.

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