Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, full stack web app monitoring

Hi Hacker News! We’re Jay and Vadim from Highlight.io ( https://highlight.io ). We’re building a truly open source [1] observability platform for modern web applications. We posted some of our tools to HN in recent months [2][3]. Today, we’re excited to formally launch the project, share more about where we’re going, and of course, poll the community for some feedback. A bit of background: Vadim and I have worked at quite a few startups at this point, and a recurring challenge we’ve faced was tracing usability issues on the frontend to downstream errors and logs on the server. Understanding the real reason behind customer issues was always a chaotic juggling of multiple tools. With the rise of "frontend-forward" frameworks such as NextJS, which blur the boundary between the client and server, the complexity of tracing these issues is only growing. This is where Highlight.io comes in: our product bridges the gap between client and server to give you a holistic view o