Sales built an employee onboarding checklist

“We're too small to get hacked.”— Petra, Sales

Reason:

Officially because the Claude logs you out after 9 minutes of inactivity. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Petra, a product owner

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

Express, because NestJS looked like too much work

Database:

a Postgres database called production-2 containing 8 years of production data

Authentication:

Google sign-in, any Google account

Deployment:

behind a domain registered for €9 during a workshop

Responsible:

Jens, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 12 times

Security situation:

the security review consisted of opening DevTools

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 54 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 58 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 15% chance of becoming business critical, €6k per year.