CEO Office built a customer feedback wall

“It's basically Airtable.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Honestly? Because the fax machine is still somehow involved. Started as Budget2026_old_use-this-one.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Miriam, the management assistant

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a private Slack channel called #data-backup

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

Miriam, who left 6 months ago

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 17:10, nightly

Future disaster:

It will gain 328 users before anyone approves it.

Age: 242 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 99 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, alive 3x longer than intended, 2 users.