Logistics built a replacement for exactly one feature of SAP

“It's only temporary.”— Nadia, Logistics

Reason:

Honestly? Because nobody could find the right SharePoint folder in 19 minutes of looking. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 623 days ago.

Built by:

Nadia, a recruiter

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

no database, it is a spreadsheet

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2024

Deployment:

deployed 24 minutes before the builder went on holiday

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

one README with 9 TODOs

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 17 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 17 days ago · original builder left 55 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 38% chance of becoming business critical, 2 accidental connections, direct production access.