Works Council built a canteen menu app

“The API isn't documented.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Allegedly because the form contains 75 fields and 5 of them are called "Other". Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Miriam, a field technician

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Notion database with increasingly ambitious automations

Database:

a vector database containing invoices for reasons

Authentication:

the secret is in .env.example

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

Katrin, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

a PDF exported from PowerPoint

Security situation:

the API key is shared by 10 applications

Future disaster:

It will stop working after someone renames a column.

Age: 3.9 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €56k per year, alive 24x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it.