Finance built a contract deadline reminder bot

“It's technically not production.”— Elena, Finance

Reason:

Officially because two teams disagreed about a column name for 8 weeks. With 49 users and 62 feature requests.

Built by:

Elena, a working student

Build time:

4 hours 49 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

no database, it is a spreadsheet

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2020

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in October

Documentation:

one README with 3 TODOs

Security situation:

IT has not been informed and will not be

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 6.0 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 335 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €113k per year, alive 156x longer than intended, 2 accidental connections.