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Animesh Koratana

DevReports by PlayerZero - Everything you need to debug, in one shareable link

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Create auto-generated bug reports, share retroactive screenshots and devtools, all in one click. The DevReports chrome extension acts like a dashcam for your browser. Instantly share your steps, screenshots, network requests, and console logs to recreate an issue.

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Animesh Koratana
Maker
Hey Product Hunt! Animesh here 👋 Writing bug reports sucks. Everyone knows it, and we felt it while building PlayerZero. How did you get there? What are the steps to reproduce? Can you open the network tab? So we decided to build a chrome extension that would cache the last few minutes of activity. Then, if you ever ran into a bug we could automatically upload that context, create a URL, and Slack that to our team. Bam. Today, we’re opening up our internal tool to the world. And we’re doing it for free. Give it a try today, it has everything you need to debug, all in one package: ✅Device metadata ✅Steps to Reproduce ✅DOM Snapshots / Screenshots ✅Network Logs ✅Console Logs ✅Session / Local Storage Install the chrome extension for your team today and decrease the time you spend reporting bugs to a single click.
Animesh Koratana
Maker
Hey! Thanks so much, we're excited to have you here! DId you have any trouble getting set up? It should only take a minute. :D
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@shahibur_rahman thanks! Were you able to create your first DevReport?
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@sajib_das2 Thanks so much! Were you able to get it all set up on your browser?
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@khayrol_basar Thank you! Just let me know if you have any questions!
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@sajib_das2 Thanks a bunch! Do you have any feedback for us?
Joshua Molinare
Amazing Idea and Stunning Design, Congrats on the Launch!!
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@joshua_molinare thanks! We tried to mirror the regular Chrome DevTools as much as we could to create a familiar and comfortable experience. Glad you enjoyed it :) Were you able to explore some of the features like screenshot annotating or local storage / session storage capturing? It takes the experience to a whole other level
Joshua Molinare
@akoratana I played around with it and really enjoyed it, I plan on using it to test my next project. I'll be sure to check those out!
Joshua Molinare
@akoratana I played around with it and really enjoyed it, I plan on using it to test my next project. I'll be sure to check those out.
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@joshua_molinare So glad to hear it! Let me know if you run into any blockers at all!
Kamlesh Shirbhate
Maker
This is the most helpful feature for any developer and QA. Internally we used this feature and it helps a lot. It has good set of things like steps with screenshots, Console log, Network history and Local/Session Storage. which are useful while debugging a bug. Personally i like this feature and using it from beta version itself, and it helps plus saves a lot of time in debugging/reproducing a bug. I would recommend this to all.
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@kshirbhate yes!!!! It's been crazy to see how heavily our team uses this before it hits production. I think we forgot how to do it the old way, haha
Maxwell Matson
Maker
@kshirbhate 100% Kamlesh! DevReports is such a staple of our everyday workflow, it's hard to imagine a world without it anymore haha
Muhammed Demir
Congrats on the launch 🚀 A valuable idea 👌
Maxwell Matson
Maker
@mbdemir Thanks so much @mbdemir! Have you tried out any tools like this one in the past?
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@mbdemir Thank you very much! We've saved a ton of time on reporting bugs with this feature, hope you get a ton of value from it!
Muhammed Demir
@maxwell_matson No, I've not, but it makes sense to keep one as an extension. I didn't need it before, but maybe one day...
Maxwell Matson
Maker
@mbdemir awesome to hear, you know where to turn if you ever run into a situation where you need to quickly communicate a bug!
Ivo Scherkamp
Great stuff! We already do screen recording to report bugs (I guess as everyone else does...), but there still is so much context missing that you need to add lengthy (and chaotic) messages to engineering. Improving this would help a lot....
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@ivo_scherkamp yes!! You're 100% right. We have a screen recording feature built in as well if you'd like to attach a video to a report after you're uploaded a DevReport. We've noticed that most of the time the automatically captured information is more than enough to communicate what happened since each report has the screenshots and events leading up to the issue. Were you able to set up the chrome extension easily? It should only take a minute to set up, and I'd love your feedback to hear how this changes your issue communication workflow.
Maxwell Matson
Maker
@ivo_scherkamp This is spot-on! Automatically captured context is such a game changer for bug reporting, I can't wait to hear about how your team likes it!
Paolo De Giglio 🚀
Amazing! This looks like a must-have for any developer - can't wait to try it out! 🤩
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@paolo_degiglio sweet! Can't wait to have you and your team in the product! Please let us know if you have any trouble :D
Maxwell Matson
Maker
@paolo_degiglio Thank you for your positive feedback! We're thrilled to hear that you think our product is a must-have for developers and can't wait for you to try it out. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback. Having DevReports at our disposal has definitely made our lives a lot easier
Dániel Kővári
congrats on the launch @akoratana
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@daniel_kovari thanks! Hope this is able to help you and your team out.
Maxwell Matson
Maker
@akoratana @daniel_kovari Thanks so much Daniel! Idk about you, but I've always hated filling out bug reports, so our chrome extension has been a huge game changer for me
Bren Kinfa 💎 SaaS Gems
Another great launch from the PlayerZero team! Super useful in taking the guesswork out of bug reporting and capturing. Congrats on the launch here! 🔥
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@saasdesigner Thanks so much Bren! Wishing you the best! It's been a huge time saver for us on the bug reporting and tracking fronts!
Ron Fybish
I love it. Great job 👏
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@ron_fybish1 thanks!!!!! How did you like your first DevReport?! Would love to hear any feedback you have for us to make DevReports better for you and your team
Maxwell Matson
Maker
@ron_fybish1 Thanks a bunch Ron! Just let us know if you have any questions or feedback at all, we're all ears!
Asif Ahmd
Good project
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@asif_ahmd thanks! Were you able to get the chrome extension set up easily?
Maxwell Matson
Maker
@asif_ahmd Thank you Asif! Do you do much QA testing in your normal workflow?
Jack Son
amaziing
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@jack_son11 sweeeet, thanks! Glad you liked it. We built this as an internal tool initially to streamline dev + QA. Hope it's able to help you guys out too! Were you able to upload your first report easily?
Maxwell Matson
Maker
@jack_son11 So happy to hear you like it! If you don't mind me asking, what did your team use for bug reporting before DevReports?
Emon Hosen
Good Project👌
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@emon_hosen Thanks so much! Hope you're able to try it out! Do you need any help setting up?
Maxwell Matson
Maker
@emon_hosen Thanks a bunch Emon! Let me know if you have any questions at all!
Shahid Arain
Good project
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@shahid_arain2 Thanks so much! What differentiates it from other similar tools that we've used in the past is that everything here is retroactive - meaning you don't have to recreate the bug just to record it!
Maxwell Matson
Maker
@shahid_arain2 @akoratana Thank you Shahid! DevReports has been such a difference maker when it comes to the amount of time we spend reporting and tracking bugs! With a single link that you can put anywhere (like in Jira or Slack with our integrations), it's so easy keeping bugs tracked through the pipeline and getting a fix out faster!
John
Greatest hits
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@john11655111 Haha it's a real game changer for freelancers too! Anytime you have a client project it can be such a pain going back and forth via email about bugs - half the time they're impossible to replicate with the info you get from your clients, and the other half, they're small, non game-breaking fixes. DevReports puts an end to all that
Shan M S
Pretty cool product @akoratana - will definitely help the dev community. best wishes for your product launch and great success ahead. Upvoting.
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@ssvmani Thank you so much Shan! Greatly appreciate your support! Hope to see you and your team in the product and will definitely be checking your product out at launch!
Victoria Rische
This is truly the missing piece to holistically feeding product issues to product and engineering teams. Would have made my days in customer success much easier as well!
Animesh Koratana
Maker
Couldn't agree more @victoria_rische - wish we could have gotten this in your hands back while you were still in CS!
Rebecca Milazzo
Maker
As a QA tester on our own team, it's CRAZY how much this feature of our application has changed my day to day. I am able to easily communicate any problems I find to any member of the team without worry they are going to say it's not reproducible or they need more information about what happened. I now even just send over possible problems without feeling like i'm bothering our engineering team to be safe I didn't find a one off issue. I hope you all enjoy as much as I do - never has testing been this fun for me but I look forward to it now! It's the universal translator I never knew I needed. I call the times before it the dark times...
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@rebecca_milazzo Love it! Rebecca's by far the best person to tell you just how much of a difference maker DevReports can be!
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@karimsaif Thanks so much Karim! Hope you enjoy!
Matt Kasner
Maker
As a product leader an an early stage startup, using DevReports to communicate with engineers is huge – its like a translator for all things bugs. I highly recommend this for anyone that knows how painful bug reporting can be... It has completely streamlined our processes and made us so much more efficient as a team!
Odun Odubanjo
Congrats on this launch. Can think of some interesting use cases.
Animesh Koratana
Maker
@odt___ Thanks so much Odun! It's honestly sped up our debugging process so much since we started using it internally. Manual bug reports are obviously a huge time sink, but it wasn't until DevReports that we realized how much time it was taking for us to record sessions with other tools, add comments to flesh out the context, etc. Now, having all the info our devs need at the click of a button makes it so easy. Hope you and your team enjoy!
Matt Kasner
Maker
@odt___ Hi Odun! I see you're launching soon with on PH, really intrigued by what you guys are making! As your team finalizes your build for going live, give DevReports and try. It will save you a ton of time, it made a huge difference for us.