Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Cloud Middleman
The only web debugging proxy that runs in the cloud
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Cloud Middleman launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.dev It’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took. Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Automated browser testing from the cloud
2014 · ghostinspector.com · its alternatives →
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Remote Duck▲136Stranger on the Internet that can help you debug your code
2015 · remoteduck.com · its alternatives →
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I built this out of curiosity about what Claude Code was actually sending to the API. Turns out, watching your tokens tick up in real-time is oddly satisfying. Sherlock sits between your LLM tools and the API, showing you every request with a live dashboard, and auto-saved copies of every prompt as markdown and json.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Benchmark proxies for reliable, target-specific scraping
Aug 2026 · scrapeops.io · its alternatives →
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2017 · debugproxy.com · its alternatives →
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HTTP(S) proxy that enables a developer to inspect traffic
2015 · charlesproxy.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. It’s called Jam (jam.dev) and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create completely vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. I used to write in the ticket that something didn’t work— only to lead to a ton of confusion by the engineer what I meant by “didn’t work”. Was the button unresponsive? Did the page crash? Did it return an error? Or like sometimes I thought…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Powerful friendly IPFS mock node & proxy. Contribute to httptoolkit/mockipfs development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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