The Founder's Office built a newsletter approval tool

“It's more of a prototype.”— Jens, The Founder's Office

Reason:

Allegedly because someone said "GDPR" and the meeting went quiet. With a logo generated at 23:16.

Built by:

Jens, a key account manager

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

Redis with persistence disabled because "it is only a cache"

Authentication:

the audit log contains passwords

Deployment:

deployed Friday at 17:11

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 5 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will make an audit take 4 extra weeks.

Age: 165 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 165 days ago · original builder left 62 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €793k per year, 85% chance of becoming business critical, 37 users.