Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I made a platform to debug Puppeteer (JS) crashes visually
Hey HN! I'm Ivan. I've been working on a solution to visually debug my own https://pptr.dev/ crashes, and this week I opened it to the public: https://buglesstack.com/. If you have any questions or suggestions to improve it, feel free to contact me at [email protected]. Thanks for reading! <3
Buglesstack is a visual debugging platform designed for Puppeteer JavaScript crashes. It helps developers identify and troubleshoot issues in their Puppeteer automation scripts through a visual interface, making crash… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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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…
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2021 · pptrconsole.com · its alternatives →
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Oopsie▲706Debug Flutter & React Native apps with AI & Session Replays
2024 · zipy.ai · its alternatives →
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Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping - emadehsan/thal
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Learn how to scrape webpages using Puppeteer and Serverless Functions built with OpenFaaS.
2020 · openfaas.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production. For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3]. Main features: - Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer - Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM - Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance - Avoids blocking using…
2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →
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Bugbot by Kuoll▲204Instantly see user actions that lead up to a bug, in Slack
2017 · kuoll.com · its alternatives →
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Flytrap 2.0▲120The fastest and most detailed tool for fixing bugs
2023 · useflytrap.com · its alternatives →
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2025 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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browserless.io▲143The full-code, no-ops tool for browser automation
2023 · browserless.io · its alternatives →
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Bugpilot▲94Turn errors, DOM, + screenshots into an AI-ready Markdown
Jun 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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bugstack▲76Hey HN, bugstack started life as an internal tool for my other startup Fuelscout because my customers would encounter production bugs when I was away that would ruin their experience. When I went camping and came home to find out my internal tool had fixed an error and shipped it to production I knew it was bigger than Fuelscout, so my little tool became bugstack. bugstack monitors your production errors 24/7. When a user hits a bug, bugstack captures the error, pulls context from your repo, generates a minimal surgical code fix, runs it through CI, and delivers it as a pull request. If…
Mar 2026 · bugstack.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We’re Adrien and Kanav. We met at our previous job, where we spent about a third of our lives combating a constant firehose of bugs. In the hope of reducing this pain for others in the future, we’re working on automating debugging. We’re currently working on a platform that ingests logs and then automatically reproduces, root causes and ultimately fixes production bugs as they happen. You can see some of our work on this here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39528087 As we were building the root-cause phase of our automated debugger, we realized that we developed…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Owl Browser▲145I've been working on browser automation infrastructure for a while and kept hitting the same ceiling: Playwright and Puppeteer are great for scripting but fall apart when you need stealth at scale. Cloud-based solutions like Browserbase work but you're sending all your data to a third party and can't control the environment. So we built Owl Browser, a self-hosted Chromium-based engine that runs in a single Docker container. The core technical problem we tried to solve was fingerprint consistency. Most browser automation tools either ignore fingerprinting entirely or apply surface-level…
Jan 2026 · owlbrowser.net · its alternatives →
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FlowLens▲134Hi HN, We often run into this with coding agents like Claude Code: debugging turns into copy-pasting logs, writing long explanations, and sharing screenshots. FlowLens is an MCP server plus a Chrome extension that captures browser context (video, console, network, user actions, storage) and makes it available to MCP-compatible agents like Claude Code. You can try it here: https://magentic.ai/flowlens Any feedback—good, bad, or brutal—is welcome.
Dec 2025 · magentic.ai · its alternatives →
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XHR logs and JavaScript errors with every bug report.
2014 · usersnap.com · its alternatives →
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Sidekick is a live application debugger that lets you troubleshoot your applications while they keep on running. It allows you to add dynamic logs and put non-breaking breakpoints in your running application without the need of stopping & redeploying. Currently supporting Java, Python & Node.js runtimes. Sidekick Open Source is here to allow self-hosting and make live debugging more accessible. Built for everyone who needs extra information from their running applications.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Testim's root cause analysis helps save time troubleshooting failed tests. Tag failures by error type to see trends.
2020 · testim.io · its alternatives →
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Connect to remote browser sessions and debug your JavaScript applications.
2019 · remotejs.com · its alternatives →
- 23AS
This is a browser front-end (ultra simple) for Chrome, built using puppeteer. I like it because it provides a usable single browser tab (that conveniently crashes on certificate errors (thanks to puppeteers default flags which I haven't altered here)), without using any JS scripting on the client side. There's some clever hacks to get that to work, including stylesheet media queries (to zero in on the correct viewport dimensions), and MJPEG, a crazy HTTP keep-alive way to stream JPEG frames of a video, favored by old-style CCTV/security/web cameras allegedly. I noticed it went from…
2022 · its alternatives →
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SimplyDebug▲85Free 1:1 live chat help for react developers
2022 · simplydebug.com · its alternatives →
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