Revenue Operations built an exit interview tracker

“We'll add monitoring later.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the backlog contains 211,275 items and one priority. Started as copy of copy of Stock_list_backup.xlsm with a script attached.

Built by:

Katrin, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

sessionStorage, because localStorage felt too permanent

Authentication:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Deployment:

hosted on Elena's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Marketing Manager, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will eventually process €49 per month.

Age: 9.3 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 60 users, 3 departments depend on it, 2 accidental connections.