Telebugs strictly adheres to its own philosophy. In some ways, this is a rebellion against the modern state of software, where SaaS providers charge you more and more for something that is inexpensive and simple.
At the heart of Telebugs lies a simple idea: error tracking should be straightforward, secure, and entirely under your control. The Telebugs philosophy shapes every aspect of it, from its design to its deployment, ensuring it empowers developers without getting in their way.
Telebugs is built on the following pillars.
Error tracking shouldn’t require complex setups or steep learning curves. Telebugs is deliberately designed to be simple. Simple to install, simple to use, and simple to maintain. The less is more principle is reflected at each level of Telebugs.
The goal of Telebugs is not to impress you — it’s to bore you to
death. Why? Because boring quietly does the job. Have you ever been
excited about cd’ing into a directory? That’s the level of boredom
Telebugs aims to achieve.
Software giants try to scare you into thinking that as soon as you save a file on disk, it evaporates the next instant unless it’s replicated, backed up, and prayed upon. This is true. To some degree. And that degree is what they disproportionately exploit and artificially inflate. Yes, you need to do backups, but it’s not as scary or complex as it seems. You can do it without a sysadmin.
You don’t need Kubernetes to run Telebugs (although some Telebugs users still do it *tsk-tsk*). You can start on the cheapest Hetzner VPS and scale up your instance as you go. Telebugs won’t scale infinitely, but it will cover the majority of your needs for the entire lifecycle of most indie and medium business projects.
Telebugs strives to become
finished
software. Imagine if cd required an account? Atrocious. How could it
even end up like that? Well, that’s what inevitably happens with all
software. It grows and grows indefinitely, adding more features (asked
for or not), and once the board realizes there’s not much left to add,
they might even allow you to cd with a guest account. This is not
Telebugs.