A Working Group built a milestone tracker

“Everyone using it is trustworthy.”— Miriam, A Working Group

Reason:

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

Built by:

Miriam, a field technician

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps and one mystery webhook

Database:

Supabase with the service role key in the frontend

Authentication:

no login. It is on the intranet, so it is fine.

Deployment:

deployed to staging, which customers are now using

Responsible:

Sarah, who has never seen the source code

Documentation:

a PDF exported from PowerPoint

Security situation:

there is one shared admin account

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Chen leaves the company.

Age: 112 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 112 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 291 users, 62% chance of becoming business critical, alive 16x longer than intended.