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by tarnacious_ 3116 days ago
Thanks for the link. I couldn't find any services offering this when we started building debugProxy. It's good to see there might be a viable business model here :)
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There might be, but our experiences running our original product[0] are contrary to that. Happy to chat about it if you’d like.

[0]: https://www.runscope.com/docs/debugging

Hi John, thanks for the offer. I might take you up on that and email you in coming days.

I learned of Runscope some time after I started building this, it looks very interesting.

I too have doubts a proxy service like debugproxy will be very successful as it is, mostly because using it is still very difficult and in some cases not possible on various devices (buggy proxy implementations on early iPhones, Android 7 not allowing root certificates to be added etc..)

I figured there are some other cool things you can do with a proxy though that might be interesting. For example getting remote debugging working smoothly by injecting a script into HTML pages sent through the proxy. Or going the other way and proxy existing websites through a sub-domain of debugproxy.com, which I used to do to demonstrate changes to clients websites.

I'll see what feedback I get in the coming weeks and decide what to do, if anything, from there.

Email is in the profile if you ever want to chat