Facilities built a meme outbid.lol clone

“Management asked for it.”— Jens, Facilities

Reason:

Honestly? Because the temporary solution has survived 7 managers. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Jens, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a table called temp that has existed for 6 years

Authentication:

email magic links to Priya's personal Gmail

Deployment:

hosted in Sarah's Azure subscription

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

the API key is shared by 11 applications

Future disaster:

It will survive the official replacement system.

Age: 2.4 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 669 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 174 users, alive 125x longer than intended, nobody owns it.