Marketing built a lunch poll that became business critical

“IT would have taken months.”— Nadia, Marketing

Reason:

Officially because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Nadia, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Lovable, plus one emergency GitHub edit

Database:

a YAML file with 125,360 customer records

Authentication:

nobody knows the password, but the browser still does

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Sofia's laptop

Responsible:

Lukas, according to nobody except Tobias

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will fail exactly when Kevin is on holiday.

Age: 6.5 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 1504 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 223 users, alive 169x longer than intended, nobody owns it.