Facilities built a certification expiry alerter

“It only writes when necessary.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Officially because the documentation was last updated 5 months ago. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 317 days ago.

Built by:

Tobias, a recruiter

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

three databases, each claiming to be the source of truth

Authentication:

there is one account called "user"

Deployment:

deployed at 14:26 because "nobody will be using it then"

Responsible:

Tobias, a recruiter. Only Tobias.

Documentation:

a calendar invite description from March

Security situation:

the tenant ID comes directly from the query string

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 3.6 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 22x longer than intended, 9% chance of becoming business critical, 1 users.