Requestly enables Rownd to confidently ship new product updates
Rownd offers an adaptive authentication solution for web and mobile applications. Its SDKs and snippets can be integrated across a company's apps and websites, creating a smooth user experience across all platforms. Additionally, Rownd empowers its customers to strategically place authentication points to optimize growth and minimize drop-offs.
This testimonial is provided by Robert Thelen, Co-founder, and CEO of Rownd (A YCombinator backed company).
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Challenge
Rownd is a SaaS offering so the snippets & SDKs are installed on their customers’ apps & websites. Any new changes to the Javascript snippets and APIs have to be thoroughly tested before they can be deployed to the production environment.
The challenge arises when the Rownd development team needs to test the compatibility of new product updates and bug fixes with their customers' websites. To do this, they need a stable staging environment provided by the customer, however, obtaining access to a staging environment from all customers is practically impossible.
The team initially attempted to use the Chrome DevTools console to run their scripts but encountered timing issues. This resulted in inconsistent performance and the need for multiple test attempts to validate the new changes.

Solution
The Rownd development team stumbled upon Requestly through an organic search and has been utilizing it to switch environments for APIs and JS snippets. This allows them to load their development version of APIs and JS snippets when they access customer websites on their machines.
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The Rownd team uses Replace Rule to switch API endpoints from one env to another. This is how their configuration looks like:

Similarly, they also use Replace Rule to switch environments for their JS scripts running on their customer sites.
They also use the Requestly Modify API Response feature to debug issues related to API responses directly on staging & production environments. This helps them avoid setting everything locally and reproducing the issues.
They use the Requestly SharedList feature to collaborate and share Requestly configurations in the team. It is helpful to onboard new employees with Requestly, as the rules are already pre-configured.

What our other customers say

Kushagra Gour
Frontend Lead at PushOwl
Requestly’s Script Modification Rule feels like magic. Me & my team actively use Requestly to test our local changes on the customers websites and ensure we deploy no-breaking changes in production.
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Nitish Mittal
Director of Engineering at Wingify
Requestly is one-stop solution for all our needs at Wingify. Collaboration feature works like a Charm. Our devs & QAs collaborate on Requestly Rules while debugging & testing campaigns.
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Piers Carrigan
QA Lead
Requestly is a game-changer for us. It started with one person and now the entire team uses Requestly to test our Staging code on production customers & non-customer sites. We more confidently ship product updates now.
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Michael Levinson
CPO & Co-Founder
Requestly not just made it easier for us to develop, test & debug our code on our customer sites but It also helps us do engaging product demos to our prospective clients.
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Afsheen Amroliwala
Software Development Engineer
With Requestly, we can quickly set up "Replace Rules for switching API & Javascript Hosts" and load selective (or all) APIs from the local environment directly on higher environments. This saved us a lot of hassle, time & effort in working across environments. It's a go-to tool every day for Devs & QAs now.
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Robert Wharton
Senior Product Manager at Metrical
Requestly has been a lifesaver for testing our product on our customers websites. Everyone's stage sites are a hot mess of half finished dev projects, but Requestly allows us to mock up stage sites in seconds that better reflect the live sites!
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Luke Seleenbinder
Founder & CEO - Stadia Maps

When I think about Requestly, I think it fits one of the key aspects of selling a product - show rather than tell. Requestly gives us the power to show the customers our solution on their own websites rather than some demo environment which they're not familiar with.
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