Logistics built an offboarding tool that forgets the offboarding

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Sofia, Logistics

Reason:

Honestly? Because it was faster to build it than to explain it to Head of Operations. Forked from a tutorial at 11:10 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Sofia, an intern

Build time:

3 hours 39 minutes

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

a Postgres database called new-backup

Authentication:

Google sign-in, any Google account

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

"the team", which is Sofia

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

the penetration test found it by accident

Future disaster:

It will turn out to be the only system that knows the real numbers.

Age: 1.9 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 5 owners so far · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 397 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 102x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it, the builder has left.