R&D built an approval chain with one approver

“Vercel probably handles backups.”— Chen, R&D

Reason:

Mainly because the form contains 55 fields and 9 of them are called "Other". With a logo generated at 09:26.

Built by:

Chen, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

one table with 212 columns

Authentication:

the security model is "nobody knows this URL"

Deployment:

running with 85% memory usage and "seems fine"

Responsible:

Sarah, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2024 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 16:23, nightly

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 9% of records.

Age: 5.1 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 429 users, alive 21x longer than intended, older than the department using it.