Sales built a churn predictor trained on 40 rows

“Google probably handles that.”— Sarah, Sales

Reason:

Allegedly because the bug is now documented behaviour. With a logo generated at 17:37.

Built by:

Sarah, an intern

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

74,505 XML files

Authentication:

the firewall rule says "temporary"

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2021

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct pricing data.

Age: 19 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €3.3m per year, 388 users, 3 departments depend on it.