Nice. I’m curious about what kind of customers are buying your product and where did you find them. It’s difficult to compete with someone like Sentry, and even though you have a better pay model, you don’t have the reputation, so I am rather curious about your customers and why they prefer your product. Are they indie devs looking for a cheaper solution?
I think this is a great idea with the wrong pricing model. Look at all the one off payment products that involve code, they're all dead. Just charge a lower but recurring price so I can be sure that you make enough money that you keep working on it. $20/month flat price to keep the license working and source available if you shut down. If people like it and want the barebones Sentry then charge them $40 a month to provide code and host it. Wishing you the best of luck.
Their docs show throughput limits (e.g., 4 CPU = 60 errors/sec), but what happens during error spikes?
If my app crashes and blasts hundreds of errors in seconds, does Telebugs have built-in rate limiting or backpressure? Or do I need to overprovision hardware/implement throttling myself?
With SaaS tools, spike protection is their problem. With self-hosted, I’m worried about overwhelming my own infrastructure without adding complexity.
I know you said inspired, but it still feels a bit wrong to just copy paste the exact same landing page style and replace some words on it (https://once.com/campfire)
Interesting pricing model, and it seems the pain of Sentry is getting real those days. Many folks need something simpler, that just works. Totally support the idea.
The alternative starting with a G has been mentioned a few times already, so I'll also mention that's been operating in the space and that I happily use : https://www.bugsink.com/. It's trying to solve the exact same pain.
Disclaimer : I know the owner :), so I may be biased. But generally I like to see more niche alternatives to the massive players in the field
> Wherever you can host something like WordPress, you can host Campfire
I’m going to be pedantic here, but this statement is not true. I host a website on a provider that allows WordPress (PHP) along with MySQL, but
> System requirements & installation
> Campfire is packed as a Docker container image
the web host provider does not allow Docker (it runs on BSD).
I’d suggest improving the system requirements section by actually stating the system requirements. To me the mention of Docker without other details is a black box that I cannot have any intuition for.
As much as I like the ONCE idea, even 37signals have found it hard to be sustainable. I think they intend to have an improved version of ONCE idea coming out later.
Other than that I hope this project succeed. May be another idea is that you offer paid hosted model as well as the ONCE product. This is similar to a lot of OSS web analytics. People are happy to pay for subscription / services as long as they know they are not locked in. i.e They are happy to pay for $20 - even $2K per month due to Opex rather than Capex reason or saving the manual labour hassle. And they have the choice to move their data to ONCE product when they see fit.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 51.6 ms ] threadIf my app crashes and blasts hundreds of errors in seconds, does Telebugs have built-in rate limiting or backpressure? Or do I need to overprovision hardware/implement throttling myself?
With SaaS tools, spike protection is their problem. With self-hosted, I’m worried about overwhelming my own infrastructure without adding complexity.
Anyone running this in production?
Disclaimer : I know the owner :), so I may be biased. But generally I like to see more niche alternatives to the massive players in the field
I’m going to be pedantic here, but this statement is not true. I host a website on a provider that allows WordPress (PHP) along with MySQL, but
> System requirements & installation
> Campfire is packed as a Docker container image
the web host provider does not allow Docker (it runs on BSD).
I’d suggest improving the system requirements section by actually stating the system requirements. To me the mention of Docker without other details is a black box that I cannot have any intuition for.
Other than that I hope this project succeed. May be another idea is that you offer paid hosted model as well as the ONCE product. This is similar to a lot of OSS web analytics. People are happy to pay for subscription / services as long as they know they are not locked in. i.e They are happy to pay for $20 - even $2K per month due to Opex rather than Capex reason or saving the manual labour hassle. And they have the choice to move their data to ONCE product when they see fit.
All the best I hope this work out.