The CEO built a commission calculator with a rounding bug

“It's only one container.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the workaround has been in production for 12 months. Built in 2 hours 15 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Sofia, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a Postgres replica that accidentally became primary

Authentication:

the password manager is memory

Deployment:

running from an image tagged final-final

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 139 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 94 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 623 users, nobody owns it, alive 20x longer than intended.