Production Bug Reproducer

A developer tool that lets engineers reproduce production bugs locally without needing a full database or remote API setup. Captures production behavior and replays it in isolation. Target users are backend developers debugging production issues.

The push toward distributed systems, microservices, and ephemeral cloud environments has made "works on my machine" debugging genuinely painful — production state is increasingly hard to reconstruct locally, and that friction is getting worse as teams adopt more external dependencies. The closest substitute is a combination of logging tools like Datadog plus manual mocking, which is clunky enough that developers tolerate significant lost time rather than fix the workflow. The $2k–10k MRR band is realistic for a prosumer devtool that sells seat-by-seat to engineering teams, though it implies staying in SMB territory unless enterprise contracts come in. The biggest risk is technical: faithfully capturing and replaying production behavior across network calls, auth layers, and stateful side effects is an extremely hard capture problem, and a tool that only works cleanly for simple CRUD apps will get abandoned the moment someone hits a real-world edge case.