HR built a visitor sign-in kiosk

“It's just CRUD.”— Anja, HR

Reason:

Officially because the workaround has been in production for 10 months. Built in an afternoon, mostly and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Anja, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

a SQLite file inside a Docker volume nobody has backed up

Authentication:

the security model is "it is behind Cloudflare"

Deployment:

running on port 3000 in production

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 5 empty headings

Security situation:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 78 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 67 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €2.9m per year, 502 users, the builder has left.