Dog Shelter Team built a company-wide announcement tool

“We'll migrate it eventually.”— Sofia, Dog Shelter Team

Reason:

Honestly? Because the ERP is only reachable on the VPN, which drops every 19 minutes. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Sofia, a field technician

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

an Oracle database nobody can explain the licensing for

Authentication:

the password is stored in a spreadsheet called passwords.xlsx

Deployment:

last deployed 317 days ago

Responsible:

Olivier, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Sofia, who left

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 9.2 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 37x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 1 users.