ESG built a returns processing tool

“Vercel probably handles backups.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Because the integration works unless it is Thursday. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Katrin, a field technician

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

Google Apps Script holding together three departments

Database:

Airtable on Thomas's personal plan

Authentication:

the admin route is called /secret

Deployment:

hosted on the demo environment, permanently

Responsible:

Ravi, who inherited it from Katrin by accident

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 13 empty headings

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 130 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 100 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 1 accidental connections, alive 2x longer than intended.