September 2026 Summaries

Ryan Vanderpol, a Seattle-born entrepreneur now based in Barcelona, runs Beta Acid, a software consulting agency serving clients globally, while also operating a portfolio of SaaS products such as Notework, Cut Club, Nudge, Spiceful, and Winetraqr, alongside a winery in Spain’s Priorat region. His teams use Rollbar across both client projects and internal products to monitor errors through dedicated Slack channels, giving engineers real-time alerts, stack traces, and debugging details. Vanderpol views cloud-based error logging as essential for identifying and resolving problems before users abandon a product without reporting them. He chose Rollbar after moving from Sentry, citing rising costs and an increasingly complex feature set, while preferring Rollbar’s straightforward error logs, stack traces, and Slack notifications.