IT (yes, really) built an email campaign sender bypassing marketing

“We can always rebuild it.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because the official form has 51 fields and not the one that matters. Forked from a tutorial at 17:17 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Ravi, the management assistant

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a CSV called Leads_new2_use-this-one.csv in a shared drive

Authentication:

the password manager is a Word document

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word demo

Responsible:

Petra, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will be reported to the data protection officer by a customer.

Age: 2.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 375 users, 5 departments depend on it, alive 27x longer than intended.