Sales built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“It's only 800 lines.”— Anja, Sales

Reason:

Honestly? Because the lunch prototype is now business critical. Already exported 163,614 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Anja, a key account manager

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a REST API backed by another REST API backed by Excel

Authentication:

the certificate is self-signed and everybody clicked through

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €43.30/month

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

It will accidentally CC 188 people.

Age: 8.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 74 users, alive 100x longer than intended, 33% chance of becoming business critical.