Procurement built a performance review form

“The password is really long.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the customer asked for one tiny change. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Sofia, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a backup called backup-final-February.zip

Authentication:

the production token is in Slack

Deployment:

running on port 8080 in production

Responsible:

an agency acquired by another agency

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

the tenant ID comes directly from the query string

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 234 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 215 days ago

Rated common mostly because: nobody owns it, the builder has left, 17% chance of becoming business critical.