Dog Shelter Team built a fridge cleaning rota

“It's on a weird port.”— Sofia, Dog Shelter Team

Reason:

Officially because the workaround has onboarding documentation. Built in one weekend and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Sofia, the management assistant

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a JSON file in production

Authentication:

Petra knows the password

Deployment:

deployed by copying files over RDP

Responsible:

Marco, until somebody notices

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

the user's role is stored in localStorage

Future disaster:

It will gain 489 users before anyone approves it.

Age: 2.6 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 735 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €935k per year, 279 users, the builder has left.