Dog Shelter Team built a third CRM

“We barely store passwords.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 17 months. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 411 days ago.

Built by:

Sofia, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

localStorage. That is the whole backend.

Authentication:

MFA is disabled because somebody lost their phone

Deployment:

running on a laptop with 19% battery

Responsible:

Petra, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 329 users, 47% chance of becoming business critical, alive 56x longer than intended.