People Operations built a meeting action tracker

“We'll add authentication later.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Mainly because the official form has 49 fields and not the one that matters. With a logo generated at 16:41.

Built by:

Ravi, a key account manager

Build time:

2 hours 43 minutes

Built with:

Firebase, because nobody wanted to design a backend

Database:

an email inbox used as the database

Authentication:

production is technically the test environment

Deployment:

using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

the privacy policy refers to a different application

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT must stop.

Age: 1.8 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 463 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, the builder has left, alive 7x longer than intended.