Training built a trademark renewal reminder

“We'll add SSO later.”— Sofia, Training

Reason:

Allegedly because the printer is somehow involved. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Sofia, the management assistant

Build time:

1 hours 44 minutes

Built with:

Google Apps Script holding together three departments

Database:

a production table where the primary key is the customer's name

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2019

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €51.46/month

Responsible:

Lukas, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Future disaster:

It will eventually process €8,600 per month.

Age: 2.0 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €765k per year, 160 users, alive 34x longer than intended.