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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 felipefar »

This is an useful tool. I wish there was something similar for desktop applications.

The nice thing about implementing this for the web is that the API you have to record data from (DOM events) is the same no matter what UI toolkit you use on top of it. But on desktop, the ecosystem is more fragmented and would require more ports and quirks to implement a widely compatible bug recorder.

I'm not a fan of webdev, but this is an advantage it has over desktop development.

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

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

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.

Professionally I do all of my development in Firefox and only occasionally check that Chrome works

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

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Post by irtefa »

mattnguyen wrote: post #149

I built a similar tool in 2016 called Bugcam that does exactly this. It was also a chrome extension with the ability to tie console logs and network traffic to screenrecordings. Jam looks really polished and far more usable than the weekend hack I put together :) Well done! The explanation for why OP built Jam was precisely the motivation I had for building Bugcam. I had transitioned to a team in Europe as part of an…

[I work at Jam]

Thank you for the kind words, Matt! If you ever want to go back to that world, shoot me an email at i@jam.dev. We are always hiring!

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

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Post by megous »

Not sure being "ex-Cloudflare" gives you the positive credentials you think it does.

Pretty much all "Cloudflare" experience most people have will be something negative, like getting blocked from some website, just seeing the huge clouflare logo instead. Even as a programmer, I pretty much just hate Cloudflare, despite knowing it's more than this annoying screen or stupid captcha between me and some website.

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

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Post by gravenate »

I think this is really awesome. Our company has a monolithic giant that is full of tech debt and high support cost from our on premise web application. Half the battle is asking the clients to send screenshots or properly explain the issue. For us would be an easy sell if we could integrate natively with the apps front end tech stack.

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

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Post by fragmede »

Bilal_io wrote: post #60
sergeyski wrote: post #29

Looks similar to replay.io

What I don't like about replay.io is that it requires you to use their custom browser.

honestly that ends up being a feature rather than a bug for me, given how many chrome windows and chrome profiles going on, having it be a separate so entirely is a good thing in my book. I can understand others have a different opinion though. Given all the attention paid to the developer experience, what's weird is CORS not being called out in their browser.

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

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Post by omarfarooq »

gravenate wrote: post #156

I think this is really awesome. Our company has a monolithic giant that is full of tech debt and high support cost from our on premise web application. Half the battle is asking the clients to send screenshots or properly explain the issue. For us would be an easy sell if we could integrate natively with the apps front end tech stack.

Gleap does this: https://www.gleap.io/in-app-bug-reporting
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