Show HN: Errordite, a new approach to exception management

(disclaimer: I know the founders; and I wrote the python / django client libraries)<p>When we started YunoJuno we hooked up Sentry, as we are a django app, and it's the default option for error management (oh, and it had an Heroku add-on available). It's a great product, but I got frustrated early on with how it was aggregating errors - and ended up in a public StackOverflow confessional during which I unpicked the source and tried to work out what was going on (<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13331973/how-does-sentry-aggregate-errors" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13331973/how-does-sentry-...</a>).<p>I started using Errordite when it became available (I had to write the python client first!) and ran both in parallel for a couple of months. Both do a great job of helping manage exceptions, but the killer for us (and the reason we dropped Sentry recently) is that Errordite allowed us to determine the rules around grouping exceptions ourselves.<p>I won't say any more for fear of sounding like a plant, but in answer to those who have posted 'what's the difference' - it's (IMO) the ability to set custom rules around how errors are handled.

I like the concept but I don't like your pricing model. For what it is, even $19 a month feels like a lot. I would love to add this to the couple of web apps I run but at that cost it'd run parallel to the cost of my AWS overhead.<p>Semi-seriously, you should add a PAYG model that costs by the error, thus incentivising me to make my code less error-prone!

What your onboarding flow needs is "How this is different from X." Adding this to my app may be easy, but switching has cost (lost data, time spent, etc).<p>X includes at least: Honeybadger (what I use presently), AirBrake (just switched from this), NewRelic (also does what you do, and everybody uses it), BugSense, Errormator, Sentry, and I'm sure there are others in this field (for some reason).

looking at your homepage, i don't get what makes this different from airbrake.io, which i've been using for years.<p>I'd really love to have a well-rounded error management service (and airbrake isn't perfect), so I'm generally interested. But if you want to win me over as a customer, you might need to clarify on your homepage what's new in your approach.<p>Best wishes :)

OP here. In case people are wondering what the new approach is, Errordite allows you to look at your list of errors and by highlighting properties of the error define the rules by which errors are grouped into issues. See the video for a demo.

This product looks great - should help avoid frustrating situations when sifting through massive error logs looking for THAT pesky bug.

this is amazing, just what i've been looking for

looks good, best wishes

This looks great