Whoever Had Admin Rights built a website change request portal

“It's basically Airtable.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the documentation was last updated 3 months ago. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Ravi, a field technician

Build time:

5 hours 31 minutes

Built with:

Svelte, because apparently this was the moment to experiment

Database:

a folder called DATABASE

Authentication:

security by obscurity, but without much obscurity

Deployment:

deployed to staging, which customers are now using

Responsible:

Kevin, according to nobody except Katrin

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 19 empty headings

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 373 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 64x longer than intended, nobody owns it, the builder has left.