ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend

This is a weirdly astroturfed post, a full 50% of the top level comments are the author or accounts created moments before this post, specifically to comment here.<p>I&#x27;m still interested in the product, but I&#x27;ve already got a bad taste in my mouth. If it&#x27;s good, leave it to speak for itself.

Hey everyone, founder of ShadowTraffic here. I built this product in 90 days bootstrapped on my own dollar, which was a wild experience all on its own. Happy to answer any questions :)

This looks cool, can&#x27;t wait to try it!<p>At first, people might think &quot;$10,000 demo problem? What a high number!&quot; Realistically, in corp environments, that number is an understatement. Plus the long time (and pain) it takes to get every team&#x27;s buy-in to help with capturing&#x2F;generating that data.

I frequently have this problem throughout my product development process: dev, testing especially under load or for edge failure cases, and demo&#x2F;sales engineering. Great product, solid API and devex, and it’s been fun following Michael’s journey of building a product quickly and in public.

This looks really interesting! Generating large amounts of plausible fake data by modeling the reality is still a big issue both for generating custom demos and for maximum load testing of streaming applications. Will definitely give ShadowTraffic a try.

the declarative approach makes for a lean and exacting experience versus other tooling for load testing. Great approach for the cloud native world.

Congrats on the launch Michael. I dreamt of this back when I was an SE at RJMetrics :)

Good luck for the launch, Michael!

Congrats on the launch, Michael!

Look forward to trying this!