CEO's Daughter built a shift planner that emails PDFs

“The workshop was tomorrow.”— Petra, CEO's Daughter

Reason:

Mainly because the ticket has been open for 623 days. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 317 days ago.

Built by:

Petra, a controller

Build time:

1 hours 58 minutes

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a production snapshot from August because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

the backend trusts whatever role the frontend sends

Deployment:

deployed through Jenkins, which has been "temporary" for 3 years

Responsible:

Miriam, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 8 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Ravi's credit card expires.

Age: 341 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €213k per year, alive 24x longer than intended, 21% chance of becoming business critical.