A Contractor built a new starter equipment form

“It has HTTPS.”— Sarah, A Contractor

Reason:

Allegedly because the API documentation says "ask Elena". With a roadmap in the README, last touched 317 days ago.

Built by:

Sarah, a team lead

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a backup called backup-final-August.zip

Authentication:

the admin page is hidden by removing the link

Deployment:

running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing

Responsible:

Finance Business Partner, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

security is handled by keeping the URL secret

Future disaster:

It will outlive the vendor that was supposed to replace it.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €2.0m per year, 882 users, 10% chance of becoming business critical.