Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile

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Requestly

Hi HN, My name is Sachin - I’m the founder of Requestly (https://requestly.io) and I’m very happy to be here and get feedback from you all. Requestly is software that lets you intercept network requests, modify, and debug them. We’re available as a browser extension as well as a desktop app and Requestly is useful whether you are a web developer, backend developer, or mobile developer. When developers work with APIs on their local machine, current experience is very broken—be it web development, mobile, or backend. Requestly saves you time by letting you test your APIs faster without deployment on staging. Requestly also lets you simulate different failover and edge case scenarios which are hard to simulate without code changes. Back in 2014, I was working on Adobe Target and I had a customer issue where the delivered campaign was showing FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content) on the customer’s website and It was intermittent. It was so hard to debug with the minified production version of the script, so I built a tool to perform a simple redirect of production JS to my locally running JS. I was then able to do logging in different methods and was able to pinpoint the exact issue and where I could optimize. My team and I debugged a lot of customer issues using this tool, which eventually became Requestly. I just loved working on Requestly so I kept maintaining the project over weekends and supporting users. It started to gain traction organically and today it serves more than 40K monthly active users.

#Testing #Localhost Tools #Developer Tools 24 social mentions

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Proxyman.io

This looks great! Congratulations. I particularly like the "shortcuts" to common actions like "Insert JS/CSS". That's very useful! I want to also give a shoutout to https://proxyman.io/. Proxyman is a native Mac App that also works as a local proxy and is a pleasure to use. I've been using it for similar workflows and can highly recommend it over Charles (the SSL handling alone is 100x simpler).

#Developer Tools #Debugging #Proxy 24 social mentions

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HTTP Toolkit

#Software Development #Development Tools #Security 24 social mentions

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Sonar by Facebook

Why would I use requestly for Android when perfectly good alternatives already exist ? Flipper (https://fbflipper.com/) lets me do all of this (viewing, mocks, etc), with the same setup. And it's extensible too. HTTP Toolkit offers the proxying solution to it. Is there anything that might be different ?

#Developer Tools #Error Tracking #QA 15 social mentions

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LNAV

Same. Mitmproxy (and its built-in mitmdump lib), along w/ the (criminally obscure / amazing) lnav (https://lnav.org), have served me very well in the past for this kind of thing.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Realtime Analytics 58 social mentions

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Surge for Mac

#Developer Tools #Security #Proxy

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node-http-proxy

#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 10 social mentions