Quality Assurance built a visitor sign-in kiosk

“Git is basically a backup.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Honestly? Because the roadmap says Q4, but nobody wrote down the year. With a logo generated at 17:00.

Built by:

Daniel, someone from Procurement

Build time:

43 minutes

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

a JSON file in Git called production-data.json

Authentication:

authorization is handled in the UI

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

a README that begins with "temporary notes"

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 8 months old

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 255 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 48% chance of becoming business critical, €6k per year.