Marketing built an NDA generator

“IT would have taken months.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because IT said no, politely, in writing, on a Monday. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Sarah, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a second Postgres called new, for safety

Authentication:

IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0

Deployment:

last deployed 11 days ago

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in May

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for August and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will become business critical in 13 months.

Age: 6.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 2114 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 104x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it, the builder has left.