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25 pointsbeastmcbeast11 comments

You guys should add more info on features and how it works or put together a quick video. Even better would be to have a sandbox acct. There's not a lot of info on why I should use this over any other bug tracking software and I'm not intrigued enough from the barebones intro site to give up my email and sign up.

It's much better than Airbrake or Exceptional by leaps and bounds. Just being able to track how many users are affected by a particular bug is amazing.

The bar has been set pretty high by Airbrake.

Thanks for the feedback. Some good ideas here, we'll work on increasing the visibility of our features.

We'll try and add some screenshots and a demo account today.

When I see a service like this, I want to know how I can integrate it in my project, and what it would take. The front page tells me nothing about that, just very vague promisses that the unclear features are good.

I searched the page for any kind of technical information, and found a very discrete, almost invisible link to the "API documentation" in the footer of the page.

The link leads to a github README, that informs me I have to post JSON to a certain URL.

Just by chance I checked out their other github repos and noticed that they already have client libraries for iOS, ruby, node and Android.

I've only checked out the iOS version, but it has a pretty nice interface, and would take literally minutes to add to my project. It even posts the report automatically on fatal errors.

Why was this not a prominent feature box on the front page?

I understand they market it to project managers an the like, but it seems useful to try to get the developers on board from the beginning. Often, it will be the job of the developer to find a suitable solution anyway.

Can I just add a general plea to sites like this one which follow a "free while in beta" approach? It's great, and I love free, but I can't choose free without knowing if it's going to become $10/mo or $10k/mo. I'm sure I could probably have a guess at the ballpark pricing that they'll launch this at, but please try and give an indication.

I simply can't commit the time to roll something in to a product or platform which I may have to roll back out again later when there are alternatives that I can plan/budget/account for. There are a few things lately which I've thought "that could be great" but I haven't adopted or tested fully because I just can't know how their costs will scale as my products do. See Bridge for another example, though they did respond with extra clarity after a few people mentioned it.

I'd say that they should charge in beta too. Pricing needs to be tested before you release.

We have committed to always having a free account, and the features you see today will always be available to free accounts.

We are currently thinking along the lines of charging for higher volume accounts.

Well, yes... That's semi-reassuring! Now I don't know what you mean by higher volume accounts. I may well be one, but I don't know that yet. It's like saying that Github will always have a free account - yes, maybe so, but it doesn't do what I need, hence paying $100/mo (as a higher volume user!). Are you different?

> https://github.com/bugsnag/bugsnag-notifier-api/blob/master/... > Official notifiers are available for several languages and frameworks.

'Official notifiers' link redirects to github.com

How does this compare with what comes in newRelic?

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