Office Management built a warehouse label printer web app

“We'll tell Legal if anyone asks.”— Daniel, Office Management

Reason:

Honestly? Because the process has 7 steps, 4 of which are "send an email". With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Daniel, the management assistant

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

GitHub Issues. Yes, production data.

Authentication:

one shared password, written on a sticky note in the warehouse office

Deployment:

deployed through Jenkins, which has been "temporary" for 7 years

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

one README with 6 TODOs

Security situation:

the service account is also a real employee

Future disaster:

It will stop working the day the free tier ends.

Age: 14 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 14 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, 21% chance of becoming business critical, alive 2x longer than intended.