The Mailroom built a PTO approval app

“It's just a script.”— Jens, The Mailroom

Reason:

Honestly? Because the workaround has its own workaround. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Jens, the management assistant

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

passwords stored in a column called password

Authentication:

Google sign-in, any Google account

Deployment:

running behind nginx config copied from Stack Overflow

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 1.1 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 395 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.2m per year, 615 users, 20% chance of becoming business critical.