R&D built a company-wide announcement tool

“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— Nadia, R&D

Reason:

Officially because the workflow has 86 steps and nobody wants to open it. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 11 days ago.

Built by:

Nadia, the management assistant

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

browser cookies with surprising ambition

Authentication:

permissions are managed by copying another user's account

Deployment:

hosted on a free trial using Marco's credit card

Responsible:

Thomas, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

a Miro board that takes 8 minutes to load

Security situation:

the API key is called PUBLIC_API_KEY

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 21 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €157k per year, 94 users, 7% chance of becoming business critical.