An intern built a shift planner that emails PDFs

“There are only like twelve users.”— Sofia, An intern

Reason:

Honestly? Because the official form has 36 fields and not the one that matters. With 11 users and 34 feature requests.

Built by:

Sofia, the management assistant

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

Supabase on a free tier that pauses in 5 days

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 34 days

Deployment:

SSL certificate expires in 17 days

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

a Slack thread from January

Security situation:

it stores passwords, hashed with nothing

Future disaster:

It will get its own budget line before it gets an owner.

Age: 7.4 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 162 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 890 users, 3 accidental connections, alive 193x longer than intended.