Hey hackers!<p>In January 2025, I started building Telebugs. It's an installable error tracker that works with Sentry SDKs.<p>I come from a Rails background and previously worked at an error tracking/APM company, so I figured: why not build my own? I wanted a simple, reliable tool I could own outright, without surprise bills for overages.<p>Telebugs is built with Rails 8, Hotwire, TailwindCSS, and SQLite. Like 37signals’ ONCE products (my inspiration), it’s pay-once: prep your hardware, run one command, and you’ll be up and running in 10 minutes (5 minutes refers to the actual installation time).<p>It supports push and email notifications, handles millions of errors per day (depending on hardware), runs in a single Docker container, and auto-cleans old data based on your rules. The idea is that you install it once and forget it.<p>I’ve shared updates on social media since day one, and today I’m launching it publicly. The whole idea of installable, self-hosted software was new to me, but building Telebugs has made web dev feel fun again.<p>It took 3.5 months of near-daily work to ship it solo. I now use it to track errors across all my projects.<p>Happy to answer any questions!