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The Website is Down #1: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude

Josh Weinberg · comedy · Watch on YouTube

Satire & parodyWeb developmentCloud, DevOps & reliability

What it is

A comedy video in which a salesperson demands that a web developer fix a down website, with the two talking past each other. It won a Webby award.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN treats it as a beloved piece of tech-workplace humor, quoted whenever an outage or sales-versus-engineering friction comes up.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Something along similar lines that I really enjoyed was the "Website is Down" series of videos”

    Series of videos on website outages and sales versus web.

    pmoriarty, 2019-12 · Recommendation · in “The Bastard Operator From Hell (1999)”

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Topics: tech humor, outages, web development, workplace comedy

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