Dog Shelter Team built a barcode scanner that only works on one phone

“Vercel probably handles backups.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Mainly because someone said "can't ChatGPT do this?". With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Ravi, a controller

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

a no-code builder on someone's personal account

Database:

two databases kept "mostly in sync"

Authentication:

the audit log is disabled because it filled the disk

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Miriam understands

Responsible:

nobody officially, Katrin emotionally

Documentation:

a Word document called Stock_list_FIXED.xlsx

Security situation:

the firewall rule is 0.0.0.0/0

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 2.2 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 4 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 809 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 116x longer than intended, nobody owns it, the builder has left.