R&D built an onboarding checklist tool

“The API isn't documented.”— Marco, R&D

Reason:

Honestly? Because the tiny change needs approval from 6 people. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Marco, a field technician

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

UUIDs stored as VARCHAR(255), just in case

Authentication:

no login. It is on the intranet, so it is fine.

Deployment:

deployed by emailing Headcount_old_FIXED.xlsm to Sarah

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Future disaster:

It will get SSO after somebody shares the password publicly.

Age: 320 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 73 users, alive 15x longer than intended, €2k per year.