DEV Community: Vasanth

I lost a customer to a bug I couldn’t find. So I hired an AI to chase it.

Vasanth — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:36:53 +0000

Last month a customer got stuck on checkout. No email. No complaint. They just left.

I found out 4 days later, from a single log line. Then I spent hours in the logs and the database and never found the cause. The bug was still out there, and all I could do was wait for it to hit someone else.

That’s when I stopped asking “how do I read logs faster?” and asked a different question: why is a person the one who has to tell me it’s broken?

The surprise: you don’t point it at the code

When I imagined an AI debugger, I pictured pasting in an error and getting a patch. That’s not how a stuck customer works. A stuck customer often throws no error at all. The button does nothing, the page hangs, the payment step never fires.

So Bugwalk starts somewhere else. It starts from the person.

It reads their visit in order: every click, every request, every error, on one timeline. Then it reads your code at the version that was live when they failed. Then it names the line.

What it found in the demo (and why I didn’t expect it)

Here’s a real example from the live demo, a small online shop called Fernhill.

The timeline shows a shopper logging in fine (200), then TypeError: Cannot read properties of null, then POST /api/checkout returning 500.

The investigation reads: a coupon that is not in the discount table is read as if it were, so checkout throws before the shopper sees a price.

Look at what kind of bug that is. It doesn’t hit everyone. It hits only people who arrive with a coupon code from an email. Click the code, load checkout, nothing. I could test checkout all day and never see it. A shopper who left would just look like a dropped cart.

That’s the kind of bug I spent hours failing to find.

How you can use it

The path is short. This is straight from the quick start:

Create a project and name it after the app you want to watch.
Install the SDK. Run the wizard from your app, or paste the snippet for your framework.
Open your app once. A page view is enough to see the first event.
Connect your GitHub repository. This lets a report point at the exact line.
Open a failed session and press “Run investigation.” Review the pull request it opens.

The part I care about most: it can’t touch what matters

I wouldn’t let a stranger loose in my repo, so here’s what it can and can’t do:

It can read the repositories you choose, run their tests, create one branch, and open a pull request.
It cannot push to your default branch, comment, merge, or write to your database.
Every fix is a pull request on its own branch. Nothing ships until you approve it.

What it actually saves

Finding a small bug by hand takes about four hours (a rough estimate, not a benchmark). Those hours cost three things:

Time: scrolling logs, running queries, guessing what the user clicked
Brain rot: ten tabs and one half-theory in your head
Focus: the feature you were building is gone, and you rebuild it from nothing afterwards

What you get instead is one pull request to read. You stay on your feature, and the details were already gathered.

Try it without signing up

You don’t have to trust my write-up. The demo is a real shop with real failures, and it needs no account: bugwalk.app/demo

If you want to run it on your own app, there’s a 3-day trial.

It’s early, and I want to hear from you

How do you find out a user hit a bug today: Sentry, session replays, support tickets, or luck?
How long does a “can’t reproduce it” bug cost you?
Would you let a tool like this open PRs on your repo, and what would it need to show you before you trusted the fix?

https://bugwalk.app

Tell me in the comments.

I built an full-Stack Auth by AI platform Pipet.dev Connected to Supabase

Vasanth — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:13:33 +0000

Hey Everyone,

I was building a platform pipet.dev which uses AI to write backend logics as per your input/flow requirements & automatically syncs with your GitHub.

This would be helpful in cases where you're clearer with your logics but needs to be go faster with developments & also platform will have auto testing feature which lets you to auto test the API's using AI, which knows about your logics.

I can ensure that pipet platform can make your development to go from 0 to 1 easily & faster.

I have took a video on how it's working. Check it out : Full-Stack Auth with Pipet-Connected Supabase & Lovable!

Needed few people as early tester to give feedback to shape the platform.

Know your thoughts on comments, happy to invite you for earlier access with free credits.

Build APIs without code

Vasanth — Fri, 07 May 2021 16:55:29 +0000

I have been involving in building no code API builder platform Fireapis where now APIs can be built within minutes and can be consumed easily.No need to worry about deployment, scalability, availability, etc..,
Another thing is we can create different APIs resources for different environments (stage, prod, dev, or any, etc..,)

Now, I'll show you how to make an example (we say Plan) API without any code and consume our Plan API

First, enter into https://fireapis.com/ and signup, its free account

First step:
You will be landed on the Dashboard page after signup or login, go to the Environments tab

The first thing is we have to create an environment

Enter our environment name, domain URL, and a short description about the environment, then click Add

Now we have created our environment.

Second step:

Next thing, we have to go to the API tab section, Click Add new API button

Enter the name and URL of our endpoint and select the environment for which API has to be built

Now, we are going to add fields for our API. Here for eg, I have added name as string type, amount as a numeric type,is_active as boolean, description as a string that can accept null and blank values. For primary key leaving a blank as it will auto add field id as primary key, if not added custom primary key

After adding all fields, click Add.

Now successfully we have created Plan API

Third Step:
Now we are going to test our Plan API endpoint by using the
autogenerated curl command

Going to test different request by using the auto-generated curl command

We have got success response after making a POST request for Plan API

Now we going to make GET request for the primary key using curl command

Now we have got a response for GET request using the primary key

Finally

We can check our logs, now we enter into the Logs tab section

We can see a detailed log report for different requests

Now we have created an API that can do CRUD operation in few minutes

Fireapis?

Solving the development time and difficulties in coding, scaling, and storage of data using API within few minutes.

Fireapis also provides Logs for all the request coming in and out for your different set of environments

We hope you liked this write up and got the gist of fireapis on how it can be used in your projects

Feel free to reach out to us by Email(vasanth@fireapis.com) if you would like to know more about Fireapis.

I’d love to hear what you think of Fireapis and if there is anything we can improve.

Catch you in the next one 👋