App Ops Desk · Issue #42

One-person release roster for the indie on-call night

You are the release engineer and the support desk. A tiny roster prevents you from panic-fixing every ping at 1am.

Read time: 4 min Support Process Pairs with Issues #27 and #34
One action this week: Write your personal release-night policy: response hours, who to escalate, and what kinds of issues can wait 24h.

Roster

Hours on watch:
Signal channels (mail/slack):
Response time promise:
What I will fix immediately:
What I will triage + reply:
What waits until next day:
If I am unavailable, users see:

Failure modes

  • Replying to every 3-star review like a support ticket
  • No explicit “we will fix by X” commitment
  • Expecting to be on call forever as revenue grows

Bottom line

Boundaries are product features. Set them before users do.

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