The Remote Team built an internal app built because someone disliked one dropdown

“It's basically Power Apps.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because Finance has a different spreadsheet. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Daniel, a field technician

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

a second Postgres called app_db, for safety

Authentication:

the security model is "we have antivirus"

Deployment:

behind a CDN for an app only used inside one building

Responsible:

Sofia, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

a README that begins with "temporary notes"

Security situation:

security is handled by a checkbox called admin

Future disaster:

It will cause IT to ask "what server?".

Age: 172 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 172 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €209k per year, 31% chance of becoming business critical, alive 12x longer than intended.