Hi PH, I'm Mase, I built self-healing code because I was too anxious to go camping

Hello everyone!

I'm a self-taught dev and former fuel salesman (yes, really). I started coding about 4 years ago, working evenings and weekends with a couple of friends on a project called Settl. We ran it for 3 years and managed to exit.

After that, I went back to my day job selling fuel and realized ZoomInfo was almost useless for fuel sales. So I built FuelScout: a fuel-specific lead gen tool. Everything was going great until I onboarded my first paying customer.

That's when it hit me: I'm a solo dev. If my customer faces a bug while I'm camping, fishing, or on holiday, nobody else is there to fix it. I started getting anxious about customer churn every time I stepped away from my laptop.

So I built an internal tool. It ingests and analyzes production errors, gathers context from my codebase, writes a minimal fix, runs my test suite, and pushes the change to production. I set up auto-deploy on commit.

Then I went on holiday with my wife's family for a week. When I got back, I checked my tool, a fix had been auto-deployed while I was gone. I hadn't touched a thing.

I knew immediately that other devs would want this. So I went to work productizing it.

Today that little tool is called BugStack. It supports JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, and Python. It's already live with a small but loyal group of devs using it in production.

I come from the B2B sales world, so building in public is brand new territory for me. I'm genuinely torn on something and would love this community's input:

Do I launch now while the product is solid and working? Or do I spend more time in this community first, supporting other makers and building relationships before going for it?

Either way, my vision for BugStack is simple: nobody should have to fix runtime errors ever again. Just focus on building.

If you're a dev, I'm curious: what would make you trust an automated tool to push code to your repo? Trust is the thing I think about most.

If you've launched on PH before, what's the one piece of advice you'd give a first-timer?

And if you're building something too, drop it below. I'd love to check it out.

— Mase