June 30, 2021
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It’s 2pm and I am in a meeting with a UI/UX designer to help us design a few new interactions on the platform. I go to the project settings page to invite the designer.
I enter their email address in the invitations, they don’t get the email. I resend the invite, nothing.
They check the spam folder ….nada. no email.
A few seconds later I got a notification (configured to send to Slack at the moment, we support Microsoft Teams / Email and Generic Webhook endpoints) informing me about the issue:
Clicking the link opens the error bucket page (for deeper discussion about Error bucket and root causes please see this blog
For the first time I’m happy that something is not working, and this is why we’ve built railtown.ai in the first place.
To summarize railtown.ai was able to help with:
railtown.ai helped us go from the notification to a fix for the issue quickly!
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