Business Development built a lessons learned database nobody learns from

“It's only one database.”— Marco, Business Development

Reason:

Mainly because the mandatory field is documented as optional. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Marco, a key account manager

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

a no-code builder on someone's personal account

Database:

booleans stored as "yes", "no", "Y", "N" and occasionally "maybe"

Authentication:

the security review was postponed until after launch

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Kevin's laptop

Responsible:

an agency acquired by another agency

Documentation:

a Miro board that takes 4 minutes to load

Security situation:

password reset emails contain the old password

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2031.

Age: 200 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 200 days ago · original builder left 46 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €701k per year, 6 accidental connections, 41% chance of becoming business critical.