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Bugfender
Company blog · bugfender.com/blog · on HN as jgimenezprogramming
Bugfender is the company blog at bugfender.com, writing about programming. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 100 times, most often “Our Thoughts and Experiences After One Year of Using Go”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (24) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked mostly by the Bugfender team in HN threads, for its company blog posts on Go, mobile development, remote work and bootstrapped growth. The comments neither praise nor criticise the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 24 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bugfender is a log storage service for application developers. Resolve bugs more effectively and provide better customer support with full logs, not just crashes.
Most-linked posts?
- Our Thoughts and Experiences After One Year of Using Go4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-03-14
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-29
- Bugfender Growth: from side-project to a sustainable $20k MRR business2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-29
- To Be or Not to Be Full Stack, the True Story2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-15
- Benefits of a Lifestyle Business2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-09
- How to Bring a Remote Office Together2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-26
- Kotlin: Heavyweight Language or Hopeless Hype?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-20
What Hacker News says?
http://bugfender.com/ - A remote debugger for iOS and Android apps. This is one of the internal tools that we built at Mobile Jazz as we always had the problem of being a remote team and therefore physically detached from our clients. Many times they had problems that we couldn't reproduce on our devices. With Bugfender we now can get access to their device's app logs and figure out what's wrong. From being initiall…
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on “Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?”Submitted Benefits of a Lifestyle Business as a story · 406 points
HN discussion> It's surprising to me that no one starts a company solely for creating an amazing place to work. I know at least one company who did that: Mobile Jazz. I started that company in 2009, initially as a freelancer, because I wanted to focus on lifestyle, rather than business success and I wanted to surround myself with other smart people, but also such that have a similar philosophy in life. We're now a 20 people comp…
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on “Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area”Submitted Show HN: Bugfender – a modern remote logger tailor-made for mobile development as a story · 15 points
HN discussionBugfender | Europe (REMOTE) | Go + AngularJS developer | Full-time or Freelancer | https://bugfender.com Bugfender helps mobile and web app developers by aggregating logs and making them available remotely in our web dashboard. We’re looking for a Go + AngularJS engineer to join us full-time. Details here: https://bugfender.com/blog/were-hiring-a-go-angularjs-develo...
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Bugfender: Fending Off Death and the Comeback [9.5M Installs and 4.5k€ MRR] as a story · 10 points
HN discussionTwo years ago I made a video about 3 years of living in a camper van. As of next months it's actually gonna be 5 years. https://optimizingforhappiness.com/3-years-of-living-in-a-ca... My plan was to make a whole video series out of it, but just doing one video already took me so much time and with running and managing two companies[1][2] at the same time, I didn't feel that I wanted to spend more time in front of a…
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on “Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road”Submitted Best Testing Services for Mobile App Development as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThere are few, although not many counter-examples. We run Mobile Jazz [1], which is an international boutique agency with headquarters in Barcelona. We're trying to treat our employees extremely fairly and have managed to gain some of the best talent not only in Spain, but also internationally. Here some of the things we do: - Pay fair salaries: 54k€ / year (before tax) for those that work full-time - We distribute…
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on “Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed”Submitted Ways to Curb Bad Ratings from the App Store as a story · 9 points
HN discussionWe've built Bugfender 5 years ago as an internal tool at Mobile Jazz for solving our own need of iOS and Android debugging and remote logging. After the first 2 years or struggling we've now just crossed MRR $23k USD and the business continues to grow healthy with small and big customers. https://bugfender.com/blog/bugfender-growth-from-side-projec...
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on “Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?”Submitted Show HN: Bugfender – A State of the Art Remote Logger for Mobile Apps as a story · 8 points
HN discussionShameless self-promotion: our Bugfender blog https://bugfender.com/blog/ We share technical posts about mobile development, about scaling our backend and database systems and our experience using Go. On the other end of the spectrum we also write a lot about building a bootstrapped lifestyle business without any external investment. Some examples: - https://bugfender.com/blog/go-pros-cons-using-go-programming... - h…
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on “Ask HN: What are your favourite developer blogs?”Submitted How to Test Your Mobile App as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis. A thousand times. We are developers ourself. 4 years ago we built a great tool (a remote logger for mobile apps)[1] internally for ourselves. We had such a huge benefit from it when developing mobile apps, we thought this tool must be very useful to other developers as well. It was a no brainer to turn it into a SaaS product. But we had no clue about how to market it to people. So we started reading every book…
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on “Building a Developer Tools Business”Submitted Should I Go? The Pros and Cons of Using Go Programming Language as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWe've developed an internal tool to remotely access iOS and Android log files (NSLog and logcat). We work remotely, so we always had issues debugging problems that we couldn't reproduce. Initially it was just an internal experiment at Mobile Jazz and at some point we even thought killing it, but now after 3 years we're at €7300 MRR (~$8600/month) and growing consistently. That said, we still haven't reached our brea…
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on “Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell”Submitted How Bugfender Saved Me [iOS/Android Remote Logging Tool] as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSpecifically for mobile logging and remote debugging you might wanna check out Bugfender's remote logger: http://bugfender.com/ Disclosure: I'm on of the co-founders. We've a couple of other related tools in the pipeline, but the BF remote logger was the first we built, mostly to solve our own need at Mobile Jazz.
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on “Ask HN: How do you log application events?”Submitted The Importance of Quality Comments as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWe've been working remotely since 2013. Here's a short blog post that we've put together today with input from everyone in our team on what their recommendations are for someone working from home for their first time: https://bugfender.com/blog/coronavirus-covid-19-how-to-embra... Here's also a direct download link to our company handbook with more in-depth tips: https://mobilejazz.com/company-handbook-pdf/
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on “Ask HN: Recommendations for Working from Home?”Submitted To Be or Not to Be Full Stack, the True Story as a story · 7 points
HN discussionVery true. For both of our companies [1][2] we pay a fair salary plus a quarterly bonus on top of that based on what we can give (based on the company's quarterly profit results). We also offer remote retreats (so far Cape Town, Thailand, Martinique, Spain and Skiing in the Alps) and the biggest contributor to everyone's satisfaction is that we let everyone work from where ever they want and as much as they want as…
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on “Big Tech Company Salaries Are Hurting Startups”Submitted The Top Android Blogs for Any Developer as a story · 7 points
HN discussionNot sure if it's in the same bucket as Valve or GitHub: at Mobile Jazz http://mobilejazz.com we're only 20 people (and that makes things a lot easier), but we've quite a different way of working compared to traditional companies: * We pay fair salaries. For most people in our team it's way more than what they've earned before. * We pay everyone the same (base) salary. Regardless of their role or title. * We pay quar…
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on “Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?”Submitted NSLog and You: Learning How and When to Use It as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDon't want to hi-jack the article, but we've built Bugfender using Go. The problem is, we thought this is an internal (experimental) project and so Go (as a new language) would be fun to try out. But then Bugfender started to take off and we ran into serious problems making Go scale. Not because it is a bad language, but simply we were new to it ourselves. Today we're still running on go and we're more or less "ok"…
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on “Things about programming I learned with Go”Submitted Understand the Differences Between iOS and Android Development as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWe've started building Bugfender using GORM and it was good for the initial job, but we now decided to remove it completely and continue on a lower level. We've summarized our whole experience with Go here: https://bugfender.com/one-year-using-go and we're just wrapping up another blog post with the Go pros and cons (from our point of view), which should be out soon as well. The biggest problem with go is, that it i…
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on “Web Development in Go”Submitted Latest Mobile App Trends in 2016 as a story · 6 points
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