I Turned My Google Sheets Hack Into a Real Tool. It Took Six Months and I Have No Regrets.

A sequel to The Daily Standup Slayer Six months ago I wrote about automating my standups with a Google Sheet, a cron job, and the kind of infrastructure that makes real engineers wince. Nightly runs. A Docker container on EC2. Apps Script that worked until it didn't. The whole thing was duct tape at scale, and I was weirdly proud of it. Then my PM asked me to update the ticket before the standup, not after. The sheet broke. The cron job silently failed for three days. And I found myself, at 11pm on a Wednesday, manually updating four Jira tickets while my Apps Script sat in production doing absolutely nothing, successfully. That was the night I decided to rewrite the whole thing properly. The New Problem (Same as the Old Problem, Just More Honest) The Google Sheet approach had one fatal flaw: it was still me doing work. I was just doing it in a spreadsheet instead of a Jira UI. Every night. Before midnight. In a specific format. Because if the format was wrong, the script silently ate