Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – AI-Powered Read-Only Production Debugging

HyperProbe is your autonomous, 24/7 AI On-Call Agent. Imagine a scenario: it's 02:47 AM, the order-service is reporting 847 failures every 10 minutes, and @priya has just been paged.

~~Your engineers joined the industry to build products, not to live in war rooms.~~ Every single hour spent hunting for a bug is an hour stolen from innovation. HyperProbe intercepts the incident, working the problem from the initial alert to a confirmed root cause before your team even opens their laptops.

Supported Stacks: Node.js · TypeScript · Java · Python · Kotlin Integrations: Works seamlessly with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and Opencode.

🚨 The Problem: The "On-Call" Tax

Currently, your most talented engineers are relegated to being your on-call rotation. This creates a vicious cycle:

Opportunity Cost: Debugging time $\neq$ Building time.
Regression: Without a permanent fix, the same conditions trigger the same incident next week.
The "Log Gap": Root cause analysis takes hours because the specific variable state that explains the failure was ~~never logged~~.

💡 The Solution: Intelligent Production Probes

HyperProbe is the AI agent that handles the investigation so your humans don't have to. It allows your coding agents to deploy a read-only probe directly onto the exact line of code causing the issue in production.

Key Advantage: It captures critical data that standard logs miss, all without requiring a service restart or a new redeployment.

Impact Metrics

Metric	Traditional Debugging	With HyperProbe
Time to Root Cause	$3 \text{ to } 4 \text{ hours}$	$\approx 10 \text{ minutes}$
Redeployments per Incident	$3 \text{ to } 4$	$0$
Senior Engineers Required	$2 \text{ to } 3$	$0$

"Sync issues used to take us days to reproduce locally. HyperProbe caught the silent data mismatch in production on the first attempt." — Aishwarya Maurya, Tech Lead, CheQ Digital

"During peak traffic, our listing service was black-boxing failures. HyperProbe let us inspect the live memory state during the spike. We fixed the race condition in the same hour." — Bhagwan Bansal, SDE, Housing.com

⚙️ How It Works

When an incident triggers, HyperProbe follows a precise execution flow:

Alert: Automatically ingests pages from Slack, Datadog, or PagerDuty.
Plan: Analyzes distributed traces and logs to pinpoint the failing file and line, then maps out a debugging strategy.

What exactly is a "Probe"?

A probe is a non-blocking, read-only snapshot of the live variable state at a specific line of code in your active service. It triggers on real production traffic, grabs the exact values, and then vanishes.

Ideal for:

Silent Failures: Wrong behavior where no exception is thrown.
Swallowed Errors: Exceptions that are caught and ignored.
Concurrency Issues: Race conditions requiring thread state at the exact moment of overlap.
API Drift: When a third-party vendor changes a field or status value without notice.

🚀 Coming This Month

Memory leak diagnosis
OOM (Out of Memory) root cause analysis
CPU spike isolation
Latency spike tracing

📖 Case Study: From Alert to Root Cause

The Incident: GET /api/orders/{id}/status is returning 500 errors for ~25% of requests.

02:48 AM | The Alert PagerDuty triggers: HIGH ERROR RATE in order-service.

Endpoint: GET /api/orders/{id}/status
Error Rate: 23% (847 failures / 10 min)

02:49 AM | Scouting HyperProbe analyzes the trace chain: GET /api/orders/{id}/status $\rightarrow$ GET payment-service/api/getPaymentsByOrder/{orderId} $\rightarrow$ 404 Not Found. Observation: Payments exist in the gateway but are missing from the internal system.

02:50 AM | Probe Placement HyperProbe identifies that payments are recorded via a webhook. It places a virtual breakpoint at /src/api/webhooks.ts on line 78.

Status: Non-blocking | Read-only | No redeploy

02:51 AM | Bug Found The snapshot captures the live request:

// Live snapshot · webhooks.ts:78 · captured 02:50:14 UTC
{
  status: "PENDING", // <--- The culprit: Gateway sent PENDING, but no handler exists
  duplicate: null,   // First time seen, passes through
  db_insert: false,  // Never called
  redis_set: true    // Called anyway; payment is now locked out permanently
}

Root Cause: The payment gateway started sending a PENDING status that the code was not programmed to handle.

💰 Pricing Plans

Feature	Free	Professional	Enterprise
Price	$0 Forever	$99/service/mo ($ 79 annual)	Custom Annual
Service Limit	1 Service	Unlimited	Unlimited
Deployment	Managed Cloud	Managed Cloud	Self-hosted / Private VPC
History	Basic	30-day capture history	Custom PII Redaction
Access	Single Agent Prompt	Shared Workspace	RBAC & Approval Gates
Minimum	N/A	3 service minimum	N/A

Note: Your first incident is worked for free. No seat counts, no host counts, and no capture limits.

🎯 Is HyperProbe for You?

You should use HyperProbe if:

You remember a specific night where you spent 3 hours in a war room for a one-line fix.
Your most expensive hires are spending their time as an on-call team rather than a product team.
You are tired of "guessing" the fix because you lack the exact variable state at the moment of failure.

The Goal: You will see a confirmed root cause before the incident call even ends—or you'll realize there is nothing left to discuss.

Ready to stop guessing? $\rightarrow$ [Book a Demo]