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billyharris | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: BugMuse, Detect When User Clicks Broken Button

we also launched on product hunt! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/bugmuse-broken-button-dete...

Broken button bugs happen all the time, even to billion dollar companies (there is a nice educational video about this listed here)

Here are 3 common reasons:

1) Adblockers. Did you know 26% of the internet uses adblockers?

2) Server error. There's an actual bug on Upwork ($6 billion dollar company, check the stock ticker $UPWK) where clicking a button didn't work. When I checked the Network tab in Chrome Developer Console, it was due to a 500 error from the backend.

3) Forgetting "href" attribute in `a` tag. This actually happened to the "Sign In" button of a billion dollar startup.

How much would catching even just one of these bugs be worth to you?

I got this idea when I was visiting a car insurance website I learned about in a Snapchat ad....and their quiz was broken due to a broken button. Which was caused by...an adblocker chrome extension I had installed.

Now you can easily catch broken buttons that cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars.

Easily debug these broken buttons using "click highlights", which are screenshots with the click highlighted.

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