Show HN: Magic links – Get video and dev logs without installing anything

17 points by irtefa ↗ HN
Hey HN,

For a while now, our team has been trying to solve a common problem: getting all the context needed to debug a bug report without the endless back-and-forth. It’s hard to fix what you can't see, and console logs, network requests, and other dev data are usually missing from bug reports.

We’ve been working on a new tool called Recording Links. The idea is simple: you send a link to a user or teammate, and when they record their screen to show an issue, the link automatically captures a video of the problem along with all the dev context, like console logs and network requests.

Our goal is to make it so you can get a complete, debuggable bug report in one go. We think this can save a ton of time that's normally spent on follow-up calls and emails.

We’re a small team and would genuinely appreciate your thoughts on this. Is this a problem you face? How would you improve this? Any and all feedback—positive or critical—would be incredibly helpful as we continue to build.

PS - you can try it out from here: https://jam.dev/recording-links

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Shouldn’t it run continuously for my QA and devs?
I was really intrigued by the title but "without installing anything" means "installing an extension" or not?
Cool project! (Side note: "magic links" made me think of passwordless / email magic link authentication)

How would you compare this to session replay products? Is the main difference that you do it on-demand, vs. for all/sampled traffic?

browserstack's free extension can do this.
This really shouldn't be needed, companies should have proper telemetry/logging/access logs already.

If customer reports a bug (scenario/timestamp/user), company should be able to solve the issue.

Better yet, customer shouldn't really need to raise the bug, it should already be flagged by monitoring tools running on data above.