2.8M views · Apr 14, 2009 · 10:24 · 1 HN recommender · 4 mentions · discussed 2019–2024
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 points people here: HN treats it as a beloved piece of tech-workplace humor, quoted whenever an outage or sales-versus-engineering friction comes up.
“Something along similar lines that I really enjoyed was the "Website is Down" series of videos”HN comment, 2019
“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.
Something along similar lines that I really enjoyed was the "Website is Down" series of videos, starting with "Sales Guy vs Web Dude": this video
“A tale as old as time”
> We run a Saas and someone wrote an email saying that our server was down, and when we'd expect it to be up. Not having had a notification, I double checked from a couple of geographic locations that our application was indeed up and responding. A tale as old as time: this video
“I was literally motivated to get into tech by the old "The Website is Down" videos”
Yeah, but how much of that time is actually butt in seat coding vs hardly paying attention in meetings? I've worked at multiple big firms and startups and I don't believe that even the majority of people are working "40 hours" in the same way that most people work 40 hours. This is the wonderful thing about technology. I was literally motivated to get into tech by the old "The Website is Down" videos, and in practice, it seems to be how many tech workers operate: this video
“Have you never seen The Website Is Down?”
> do you really think there are masses of people who can’t tell the difference between a single sign on service being down and individual sites being down and reporting it to downdetector? Have you never seen The Website Is Down? this video The answer is: way more people than a software developer might think. Ask anyone in IT, or go to anywhere bugs are reported and read a handful.
