Sales Operations built a form that emails another form

“The password is really long.”— Sarah, Sales Operations

Reason:

Officially because the spreadsheet has 145,345 rows and 60 tabs. Built in a long Thursday and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Sarah, an intern

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

Lovable, plus one emergency GitHub edit

Database:

MongoDB containing a collection called test2_final

Authentication:

Thomas knows the password

Deployment:

hosted on the demo environment, permanently

Responsible:

Thomas, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

a README containing 3 broken links

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Nadia's credit card expires.

Age: 129 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 129 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 48 users, €22k per year, alive 2x longer than intended.