Sales built an OKR tracker abandoned in week three

“The customer already saw the demo.”— Lukas, Sales

Reason:

Honestly? Because the last 10% is authentication, billing and everything else. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Lukas, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a database view called main_FINAL_FINAL

Authentication:

the guest Wi-Fi password is also the admin password

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in September

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Ravi"

Security situation:

MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 4.0 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 321 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 103x longer than intended, the builder has left, 1 departments depend on it.