Dog Shelter Team built a project intake form

“We'll add authentication later.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Because the budget expires on Friday. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Jens, a working student

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Google Apps Script holding together three departments

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

the read-only account can update records

Deployment:

running with 92% memory usage and "seems fine"

Responsible:

HR Generalist, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will email the entire customer list to one customer.

Age: 6.1 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 319x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 1 departments depend on it.