The Salesforce Admin built a month-end close checklist

“It's only 800 lines.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Officially because the source of truth is an email attachment from November. With 656 users and 50 feature requests.

Built by:

Thomas, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a no-code builder on someone's personal account

Database:

a backup called backup-final-September.zip

Authentication:

the admin route is called /admin-new-final

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Chen's laptop

Responsible:

Anja, who has never seen the source code

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Future disaster:

It will become business critical in 13 months.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €72k per year, 42 users, 5% chance of becoming business critical.