The Remote Team built an applicant tracker built because HR hated the applicant tracker

“The password is really long.”— Priya, The Remote Team

Reason:

Mainly because the fax machine is still somehow involved. With 594 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Priya, a product owner

Build time:

1 hours 44 minutes

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps and one mystery webhook

Database:

the filesystem.

Authentication:

the security model is "it is behind Cloudflare"

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

Ravi, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a PDF containing screenshots of the old UI

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Priya about.

Age: 4.5 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 788 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 527 users, €48k per year, alive 28x longer than intended.