R&D built a company-wide announcement tool

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Lukas, R&D

Reason:

Officially because someone called it "basically just CRUD". With 37 users and 13 feature requests.

Built by:

Lukas, an analyst

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

Supabase with the service role key in the frontend

Authentication:

the password hint contains the password

Deployment:

deployed to staging, which customers are now using

Responsible:

Chen, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

one README with 12 TODOs

Security situation:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Future disaster:

It will get monitoring after the first outage.

Age: 19 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 54 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 307 users, the builder has left, 10% chance of becoming business critical.