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Show HN: Trayce – Burp Suite for developers (trayce.dev)

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About a year ago I introduced Trayce to HN as the "network tab for docker containers". Now I have released a new version which adds an HTTP client. The idea is to combine network monitoring with an HTTP client to help developers interact with and debug web application servers.

Think "Burp Suite for developers".

Trayce stores requests as local files using the .bru file format. The UI is based on Flutter which means it offers a super-fast and modern desktop GUI with a total download size of 13MB (on Linux). I am still adding features to it so would love feedback. Currently the new features in the pipeline are: OAuth2, GRPC, and scripting. It is open source and free to use but a perpetual license must be purchased for continued use. The license model is similar to that of Sublime Text.

Thank you!

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Sytten
Caido founder here.

It is an interesting idea. The market is pretty crowded on the development side with the Requestly, HTTPToolkit, Charles Proxy, Fiddler and Postman like of this world.

Is the value proposition mainly the thight Docker integration?

leetrout
Another really great dev tool related to network traffic and proxying is Toxiproxy https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy

Great for ensuring your app works well with poor connections especially when using things like WebSockets.

ignoramous
The url is "trayce.dev/?resubmit=hn"

So, you're also traycing the developers lurking here? news.yc sets the "referrer" header, afaict.

fdw
I'm a bit confused about the license: On the purchase page (https://get.trayce.dev/) you state that "a license must be purchased for continued use". But if I look into the GitHub repos (https://github.com/evanrolfe/trayce_agent and https://github.com/evanrolfe/trayce_gui), the license is GPL 3? So why do I need to purchase a license?
ev_dev3
The intention is to sell this software in a similar way to Sublime Text. So a one-off fee for a perpetual license. The main difference from Sublime is that Trayce's source code is available. If GPL3 isn't compatible with such a model then I'll have to re-evaluate what license to use..
mrbluecoat
> not intended for production monitoring