Bird Eats Bug

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ludovicsclain
Dec 27, 2021

Q: Hi there 👋  I just purchased one of the plans and find your extension very practical and well thought out, ...

congratulations 🎉

Now, suppose the following situation: I have a user who finds a bug on my site and wants to report it to me, what would be the 'standard' procedure for this to be done via 'Bird Eats Bug'?

The user signals it to me (via email or tchat?), I then have to add it as a 'Bug Reporter' to my WorkSpace, then he downloads the extension (it will have to connect with a member account?) Makes a capture, then sends it to me? i'm right?

If it looks like this, are you planning an API for creating 'Bug Reporter' accounts? I can imagine a bug form to fill out on my site, so that the user account is created automatically ...

Warm regards,
Ludovic from Reunion island  🇷🇪

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Margaret_PartnerSupport

May 14, 2024

A: Hi, Ludovic!

Thank you so much for your interest in BirdEatsBug service.
First, you have three options to get visible proof of an error:
1) Record Tab
2) Record Screen
3) Take a screenshot
You can record a tab, reproduce the issue and stop the recording.
Then you need to upload this report to our workplace, and then you can copy a link and send it to the engineer, or forward it directly to Jira or another issue tracker.

There are some helpful links that can be viewed before using our product:

- Example bug report: https://app.birdeatsbug.com/sessions/example

- Quick demo: https://youtu.be/3pSdi2PvBik

- We are not super active on Facebook, but we'd love to see you in our Slack community: https://join.slack.com/t/birdeatsbugcommunity/shared_invite/zt-ahrw9n8x-F5ZZgacnTQ0S3bLn1frf1Q

Regarding the workplaces and members, currently, one email account can only have a workspace when you sign up, and you can invite members to this workspace. In case, your team want to have different workspaces to work on, there are 2 ways:

1. You can invite your team members to your workspace, then each of them will be granted a personal workspace right after they sign up. They can invite you to their workspace as well
2. Your team members can sign up for a new account, and then they can invite you to their workspace

Note: AppSumo allows one purchase per email address (so you can have only 1 workspace on an AppSumo plan), but you can always choose to upgrade a workspace later with our normal plans.

Point 2:
Integrations are also done on a workspace level, you can also connect each workspace to a different GitHub project, or even 1 workspace - to Jira, 1 - to GitHub, etc. And you can also have multiple integrations in the same workspace, i.e. Jira, Slack and GitHub.

Point 3:
User management is also done on a workspace level, so you can have multiple workspaces - each with a different set of users.

Please let us know if any other questions arise. We are always glad to assist :)

Margaret,
BirdEatsBug

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Hey Margaret, thank you for your reply… but all of your answers are off topic 😬

I will try to be clearer.

I am the developer who wants to collect bugs from my users, what would be the easiest procedure for my users so that they can report these bugs to me?

Do I first have to create a "Bug Reporter" account for them from my Workspace?

If so, are you considering the possibility of creating these accounts on the fly via an API (webhook)

Thanks.

Hi Ludovic,

Thanks a lot for your question, first of all.

There are a couple of options you have for what you need to achieve:
1. Invite your users giving them a "bug reporter" role and have them upload bugs to your workspace.
2. Have your users sign up for Bird themselves. In that case they will be on the free tier, which gives access to 30 most recently uploaded bug reports, which should be enough for your use case. Once they upload a bug, they would need to change the sharing permissions to Public, so that you can view the report (since you are then not a part of their workspace).

However, these options might not be super convenient, so next year we plan to start working on the SDK version of Bird. You can then trigger Bird on your product when you want (e.g. when a user goes to Support page; with a URL parameter; etc.) and your users will be able to report bugs a) directly to your workspace without you inviting them and b) without installing an extension.

As for the open API / webhooks, we don't have those and they are not currently on the roadmap.

Hope that helps,
Dan

Verified purchaser

Thanks for this more appropriate response, I'll deal with it for now!

Can't wait to use your next updates, your service is a real lifesaver for site owners like me, and if my users can "easily" show me what does not work on their end, everyone would be a winner.

I wish you all the best and a happy holiday season.

Happy holidays!!!

And apologies for not nailing the answer to your questions right away :)