R&D built a webinar registration dashboard

“Vercel probably handles backups.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because the customer asked for one tiny change. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Jens, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

an API that returns CSV

Authentication:

MFA is enabled for 2 people

Deployment:

deployed from a branch called fix-prod

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Lukas, who left

Security situation:

the admin account is also the service account

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 7.8 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 555 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 47x longer than intended, the builder has left, 22 users.