Does anyone use a bug tracking tool?
Does anyone use a bug tracking software. And what is your experience using it? Good/bad?
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Does anyone use a bug tracking software. And what is your experience using it? Good/bad?
I'm using Sentry and it's quite awesome. The free tier is fairly generous too, so far I haven't had to upgrade.
Love Sentry! Its the best! Easy to use, integrates with everything, can self-host if you need to. Can't recommend it enough
I just plugged in Sentry too! I like the details for errors it provides as it makes it easier to reproduce.
Awesome. What do you like about sentry?
You probably meant more of a Task manager though? Love Sentry as it catches runtime errors and automatically adds tasks for you and your team to solve them, so it's more of a complementary tool - but I'm sure it can be integrated with other Task managers
If it's just you, a bug tracking tool might be overkill. Central tracking is useful for visibility. When working solo on projects, I tend to use the most low-tech solution as possible. For quite some time, I've been using a system akin to John Carmack's .plan file. It's simply a text file (that is committed to source control) that keeps track of things I need to do, bugs, etc. Special line markings indicate the type/status of the line item. As mentioned, low-tech, but it keeps me from context-switching to another application to enter stuff.
That sounds like a great idea. Maybe something I should implement
If you want to split the difference, I didn't use it for long (so no promises that it's been maintained), but I really liked the idea of Bugs Everywhere keeping the issues inside the repository and facilitating outside user interfaces.
Of course, if you have non-technical people on the project, it might be uncomfortable to give them the entire code-base and history with instructions to ignore almost all of it...
I like this approach, keep it simple
I use Rollbar, it’s good 👍🏻
I've been using Airtable, it's been great (and free). There's a way to set up a form where you can make public, which I link directly through my app so I can get bug reports from users. It then feeds all that data to the central data view where I can also input bugs that I find myself.
Dang thats a good idea. Thanks
Keep things central: Github.
It has your code versioning, issue tracking (which can reference your code), project management and a CI pipeline through github actions.
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I use JIRA a lot. I recommend it for teams size 5+. For solo projects I use Todoist, simple to-do manager, I recommend it a lot. I manage my life inside of it ;-)
Gihub here, through issues, nothing fancy
I mostly go with Atlassian Jira.
I have been using Bugsnag (free tier) for close to 5 years now and highly recommend them. I use them for both back-end and front-end monitoring on multiple projects.
https://www.bugsnag.com/
We use JIRA, super powerfull and customer love's it
Hey Ben, do you mean a tool to:
ummm both! Haven't heard of honeybadger. should check it out
For small team, I would recommend using issue tracker from SCM provider, e.g. GitHub or GitLab. For bigger team, Jira might be a good option.
If you're looking for something in the vein of Trello/Asana/Jira, can I plug Portabella quickly?
I hopefully support all the features you want with the added security of end-to-end encryption. Of course you'd be supporting an indie hacker and I'm super responsive when it comes to bug fixes/improvements.
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Heard Jira was expensive though. Is it worth it if I’m a solo developer?
Jira has a free plan with up to 10 users. It is missing some advanced features, but for small projects works fine.
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