Show HN: OptDuty – PagerDuty scheduling for distributed teams

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5 points·dowakin··4 comments

Hi HN, This is side-project of mine.

OptDuty manages PagerDuty's schedule in a smart way with vacation info and dev's preferences (timezone, lunch time, etc). It uses Discrete Optimization with MiniZinc's help. For now scheduling optimized for one specific usecase, but with Discrete Optimization - it's easy to expand. If you're interested in technical part check out introduction to MiniZinc for the scheduling problem https://optduty.com/blog/2020-08-29-schedule-optimization/

Working on project I focused on Privacy. 0 extra services used, no analytics, trackers, no external resources on pages, no welcome email, no emails without explicit agreement and normal delete button to delete the company account.

I'm not a frontend developer, so to make this part fun, I've used ClojureScript. Actually it was really nice and smooth experience.

I'd appreciate any feedback about idea, implementation, design (I know it's ugly).

Thanks!

Looks great, and as the other commenter mentioned, solves a problem I've had on previous teams. I actually like the layout and the graphics on your landing page. If you're comfortable sharing, I would be interested to know how you procured or produced the art.

@gierach I'll disappoint you about the Landing page :). It's based on the https://github.com/tailwindtoolbox/Landing-Page . The creator is Amrit Nagi.

I put bunch of references to original authors in HTML comments, but only right now, I noticed Hugo strips all of them. I'll try to solve it.

I think it’s a really smart idea, and solves a real problem.

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