An intern built a customer feedback wall

“It's only metadata.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because two teams disagreed about a column name for 11 weeks. Built in 27 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Marco, the management assistant

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

the production database, directly, with write access

Authentication:

the write-only account can also read

Deployment:

hosted in Nadia's Azure subscription

Responsible:

Nadia, who has not touched it in 16 months

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

the user's role is stored in localStorage

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 7.6 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 3 accidental connections, €98k per year, direct production access.