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Re: Takipi – Java debugging reinvented

#33

I want to test this product, and I'm in a position where I could spend real money on a purchase or subscription to this service in the event that it does what we need. Unfortunately, as soon as I see that data is sent off-site, I immediately discard this as a product which my organisation can use. Reasons 1. I am an engineer, working in a highly regulated environment. Regulated environments excel at buying things, or…

This is something we'd run as a small pilot as well, and we do work with SaaS, but any SaaS option we use has to be verified through our internal security department.

This makes quick trials basically impossible for SaaS based services.

An internally hosted solution would let me do a pilot and demonstrate benefits internally. If this becomes an option, I'd give this a try.

Re: Takipi – Java debugging reinvented

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A not unattractive price point, I find. When are you planning to start charging for it?

Nothing is final, but we should remain in beta at least until the end of the year.

I'm afraid I have to agree with brazzy; you're asking people to invest a fair amount of time, and potentially come to depend on a tool that they have no idea if they will be able to afford once you start charging money.

Re: Takipi – Java debugging reinvented

#38

Is anybody using this for Clojure? I'm very interested in how usable it is for that. Clojure runs on the JVM using JVM bytecodes, but that doesn't mean Takipi will be able to show me anything but mangled gibberish.

Takipi lets you attach your own source code to the project, so you will see your original source code when viewing exceptions and other events, instead of decompiled Java. Support for prettier stack traces is in the planning.

Re: Takipi – Java debugging reinvented

#39

I want to test this product, and I'm in a position where I could spend real money on a purchase or subscription to this service in the event that it does what we need. Unfortunately, as soon as I see that data is sent off-site, I immediately discard this as a product which my organisation can use. Reasons 1. I am an engineer, working in a highly regulated environment. Regulated environments excel at buying things, or…

My gut tells me that SaaS is the wrong play here. Offering a hosted option is nice, but half of my projects will flat-out not use any third-party service as part of the dev environment, it all has to be self-hosted, and many of the other half are reluctant to do so. I think you might find more opportunities by offering it as a self-hosted app/appliance.
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