The Person Who Once Used Python built an internal app built because someone disliked one dropdown

“It's behind the VPN.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Because the test account belongs to Elena from a key account manager. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 317 days ago.

Built by:

Priya, someone from Procurement

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a no-code builder on someone's personal account

Database:

a Raspberry Pi with 2 years of production data

Authentication:

the temporary firewall rule has existed for 10 months

Deployment:

deployed from a Git commit nobody has pushed

Responsible:

Priya, someone from Procurement. Only Priya.

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 4.3 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 868 users, €231k per year, alive 17x longer than intended.