Operations built a performance review form

“It's just a webhook.”— Ravi, Operations

Reason:

Honestly? Because the form contains 40 fields and 4 of them are called "Other". Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Ravi, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

dates stored as text in 4 different formats

Authentication:

Daniel is still an admin because removing access felt risky

Deployment:

sharing a reverse proxy with the company Christmas raffle

Responsible:

"the team", which is Ravi

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Elena"

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Slack message

Future disaster:

It will fail during the year-end close.

Age: 6.7 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, alive 116x longer than intended, it is load bearing.