CEO Office built a video game

“The code is self-documenting.”— Marco, CEO Office

Reason:

Mainly because the approval chain includes 3 people and one shared mailbox. With 564 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Marco, a controller

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

React, Vite and unreasonable confidence

Database:

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

Authentication:

rate limiting is "please don't"

Deployment:

deployed from a branch called final

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Marco leaves the company.

Age: 5.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 1527 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 68 users, alive 134x longer than intended, €52k per year.