Product built an employee suggestion box

“We'll clean it up after the audit.”— Miriam, Product

Reason:

Honestly? Because the nightly job requires somebody to click "continue". Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Miriam, a product owner

Build time:

4 hours 38 minutes

Built with:

Make.com being used as infrastructure

Database:

a global JavaScript variable

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

restarted manually every Tuesday

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for November and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will turn out to be the only system that knows the real numbers.

Age: 6.9 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 329 users, alive 181x longer than intended, €74k per year.