Legal built a video game

“It's basically Airtable.”— Thomas, Legal

Reason:

Mainly because management has a PowerPoint with a third number. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 141 days ago.

Built by:

Thomas, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a MongoDB with no password on port 27017

Authentication:

the audit log is console.log

Deployment:

running on port 8080 in production

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a Word document called Leads_old.xlsm

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2033.

Age: 3.5 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.5m per year, 350 users, alive 42x longer than intended.