A Temporary Taskforce built a custom survey tool for one annual survey

“It's only employee data.”— Miriam, A Temporary Taskforce

Reason:

Because the meeting to fix it created 2 more meetings. Forked from a tutorial at 09:31 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Miriam, a controller

Build time:

4 hours 56 minutes

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps and one mystery webhook

Database:

a column called misc2 because misc was already taken

Authentication:

the refresh token never expires, for convenience

Deployment:

running on Ubuntu 22.04 and nobody wants to upgrade it

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €38,000 to the wrong country.

Age: 1.9 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 365 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 100x longer than intended, the builder has left, 1 accidental connections.