"We only have 1 product to review, and the code to write a 'story submitter' is trivial at best. Needless to say, the tech team didn't find this useful and camp

"We only have 1 product to review, and the code to write a 'story submitter' is trivial at best. Needless to say, the tech team didn't find this useful and campaigned hard against it." Alternate approach: get the tech team on board. Build a custom version of the software (if it's so trivial, you should be able to build it quickly, right?) Take that to the boss, say, "look, this does everything that we pay $40k / year for! Why are we using this external service?" Alt alt suggestion -- talk to your boss. Say that you can build software with features X,Y,Z for the company in 2 weeks. Build it, show it to them.