Dog Shelter Team built an offboarding tool that forgets the offboarding

“The admin page isn't linked anywhere.”— Sofia, Dog Shelter Team

Reason:

Honestly? Because the official supplier portal takes 14 clicks to change a phone number. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Sofia, a product owner

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

no database, it is a spreadsheet

Authentication:

MFA is optional, so naturally nobody uses it

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

Kevin, according to nobody except Lukas

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 3.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 82 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 72% chance of becoming business critical, 4 departments depend on it, alive 84x longer than intended.