Three People From Finance built a lost customer win-back tracker

“The data is mostly public anyway.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 18 months. Forked from a tutorial at 11:24 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Priya, the management assistant

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

a database on Thomas's laptop

Authentication:

the audit log records "something changed"

Deployment:

running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will get monitoring after the first outage.

Age: 1.0 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 299 users, €46k per year, alive 6x longer than intended.