CEO Office built a certification expiry alerter

“It's just a webhook.”— Nadia, CEO Office

Reason:

Officially because the source of truth depends on which department you ask. With a logo generated at 16:02.

Built by:

Nadia, a team lead

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

browser cookies with surprising ambition

Authentication:

the backend trusts whatever role the frontend sends

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

Sofia, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will become part of the company's "digital core" slide deck.

Age: 2.8 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €734k per year, 134 users, alive 74x longer than intended.