Legal built a software licence tracker

“It's only 800 lines.”— Priya, Legal

Reason:

Officially because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Priya, a working student

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

the filesystem.

Authentication:

the password manager is memory

Deployment:

deployed at 14:17 because "nobody will be using it then"

Responsible:

"the team", which is Priya

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

the service account is also a real employee

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €49 to the wrong country.

Age: 165 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €2.1m per year, 218 users, alive 24x longer than intended.