An intern built a vendor onboarding portal

“It's behind the VPN.”— Chen, An intern

Reason:

Mainly because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". With a roadmap in the README, last touched 88 days ago.

Built by:

Chen, a product owner

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

Firebase with open read rules since September

Authentication:

the reset password button emails the old password back

Deployment:

sharing a reverse proxy with the company Christmas raffle

Responsible:

Priya, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 13 times

Security situation:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Future disaster:

It will eventually process €249 per month.

Age: 1.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €153k per year, alive 13x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections.