Why

I’ve been wanting to start a new project for a while, after a few starts and stops (cough… webrtc is actually really complicated) I thought to start looking at problems around me.

Hello PagerDuty.

It works, but works is a nice word.

If you need to page someone and have them ack it, then there’s probably not a better tool out there - sure the pricing is a bit high, but so is building an on-call rotation.

The thing is, PagerDuty sucks at managing on-call schedules, and when it comes to working in slack all day - it’s lacking.

Blurry, is my attempt at rethinking PagerDuty if it were built today.

What if your on-call rotation actually understood vacations, or provided better insights into that one page that happens around 2am every Sunday night.

What if it was easy to use for more than just devs, who knew which dial to turn to make an on-call rotation not suck.

Maybe it’s time to go beyond the pager.

If getting paged at 3am is already sucks, why not build better systems to make it suck less on the regular.

To keep things lean, I’ve purposely made this dev blog super simple and boring - instead you should find the software and updates a whole lot more interesting.