Recruiting built a KPI dashboard explaining the other KPI dashboard

“It's read-only except for updates.”— Marco, Recruiting

Reason:

Honestly? Because the spreadsheet has 10,318 rows and 44 tabs. Forked from a tutorial at 16:28 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Marco, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps and one mystery webhook

Database:

a Raspberry Pi with 8 years of production data

Authentication:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Thomas understands

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

a Jira ticket with 80 comments

Security situation:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Future disaster:

It will be the only application that still works during the migration.

Age: 5.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 50 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €542k per year, 149 users, alive 31x longer than intended.