Executive Office built a trademark renewal reminder

“It's more of a tool.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Because someone said "GDPR" and the meeting went quiet. Forked from a tutorial at 23:49 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Ravi, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE_OLD

Authentication:

the admin password is Lukas123

Deployment:

running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing

Responsible:

Managing Director, who has never opened it

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

passwords are "encrypted" with Base64

Future disaster:

It will become business critical in 7 months.

Age: 190 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 190 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, alive 14x longer than intended, 1 users.