Dog Shelter Team built a cheap copy of a SaaS app

“It's anonymised-ish.”— Elena, Dog Shelter Team

Reason:

Mainly because the deletion process requires a ticket, a manager and 9 approvals. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Elena, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

an API that returns CSV

Authentication:

the security review was postponed until after launch

Deployment:

SSL certificate expires in 16 days

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

one README with 14 TODOs

Security situation:

the penetration test found it by accident

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by an Excel file during the migration.

Age: 4.1 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, €261k per year, alive 71x longer than intended.