Marketing built a printer toner request form

“It only writes when necessary.”— Sarah, Marketing

Reason:

Officially because it was faster to build it than to explain it to Head of Operations. With 1488 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Sarah, someone from Procurement

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

a Docker volume called final-backup-really-final and a prayer

Authentication:

the certificate is self-signed and everybody clicked through

Deployment:

deployed by dragging files into an FTP client

Responsible:

Lukas, who inherited it from Sarah by accident

Documentation:

a Word document called Budget2026_final_FINAL.xlsx

Security situation:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Future disaster:

It will silently stop syncing and nobody will notice for 8 months.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago · original builder left 50 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 departments depend on it, the builder has left, 1 users.