HR built an email campaign sender bypassing marketing

“It's only for one department.”— Kevin, HR

Reason:

Mainly because the bug was closed because nobody replied for 823 days. Built in 7 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Kevin, a working student

Build time:

5 hours 44 minutes

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

a nightly CSV export emailed to Petra

Authentication:

the session never expires because that was annoying

Deployment:

hosted on Daniel's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Head of Operations, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

a README describing a version that no longer exists

Security situation:

the tenant ID comes directly from the query string

Future disaster:

It will stop working the day the free tier ends.

Age: 2.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 614 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 2 accidental connections, alive 57x longer than intended, the builder has left.