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Shipping Early Catches Two Bugs in PulseWatch in One Week
A developer launched a rough version of PulseWatch, a job monitoring tool, and within days two strangers found real bugs. One bug caused orphaned runs when a job restarted mid-run; the fix marks old runs as superseded. The other bug, from a Dev.to comment, involved a failure that wasn't a failure, leading to a fix for edge-case alerting.
Meridian48 take
The story reinforces the value of early user testing, but the bugs themselves are basic state-management issues that better design might have caught.
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