Risk Management built a gift and hospitality register

“Nobody knows the URL.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because Sales has a newer spreadsheet. Started as Headcount_new.csv with a script attached.

Built by:

Sofia, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

three AI coding tools arguing through the same repository

Database:

MongoDB containing a collection called test2_final

Authentication:

Tobias is still an admin because removing access felt risky

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

Daniel, who inherited it from Sofia by accident

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

passwords are "encrypted" with Base64

Future disaster:

It will stop working the day the free tier ends.

Age: 2.6 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 546 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €819k per year, 323 users, 4 accidental connections.